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Al Gore called Thursday for a "man on the moon" effort to switch all of the nation's electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years, Associated Press reported .

A number of agencies and organizations want to form a citizens group at the local watershed's grass roots to discuss watershed problems and advise state agencies what solutions should be implemented for ...

Radioactive material used for legitimate purposes in medical equipment and food, for instance, could be used to create an explosive device known as a dirty bomb.

Last Wednesday, while North Lyon County Fire Protection District Division Chief/Training Officer, Scott Huntley inspected a 1980 International Brush Truck that the District recently acquired, he talked about ...

Rep. Tina Pickett, R-Bradford, announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection awarded grants to local governments in the 110th Legislative District.

State agencies have embargoed wheat at three elevators and in 20 fields covering 1,545 acres in south-central Kansas until tests confirm that pesticide residues meet tolerances set by the U.S. Environmental ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if "small ...

The Kansas winter wheat harvest was well under way in a few dry places in the state, but fields elsewhere still were far too wet to cut after storms soaked the state.

City Council put a plan to enhance the city's wetlands on hold Monday, citing public concern over the current maintenance of the 105-acre Elmwood Wetland Preserve.

Stream health surveys now involve local groups, larger streams Pratt, KS - infoZine - Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks stream survey crews will survey streams and rivers throughout Kansas this summer, ...

Nearly 90 tornadoes were reported in Kansas as of Monday in a rough weather week that also included storms with large hail and record rainfall.

The National Weather Service said it was at least a dozen tornadoes that destroyed homes, downed trees and injured several people Friday across western and central Kansas.

Tornadoes have ripped through parts of central and western Kansas for the second night in a row.

Emergency workers were picking through debris after tornadoes rampaged in western and central Kansas and northern Oklahoma for a second night in a row.

Tornadoes rampaged in western and central Kansas for the second night in a row, destroying at least one house and causing widespread damage to farm buildings and power lines.

A coalition of animal welfare groups says it has evidence that Ringling Bros. circus elephants are sometimes chained for days at a time, and the groups asked a judge Wednesday to halt the practice while a ...

“It will protect polar bears while also protecting American jobs and businesses”

In this 2003 file photo provided by Subhankar Banerjee a polar bear walks in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. via Kansas.com

“The condition inside the building represents a hazardous environmental condition that poses a risk to those who are directly exposed to it”

After discovering a dangerous compound inside the former Berlin Metals building in Punxsutawney, the Department of Environmental Protection has ordered the property's owners to prevent the public from entering ... via GantDaily.com

Missing Woman Found Updated: Wichita police are trying to locate 89-year-old Virginia Judd. via KWCH

“What we wanted to do was look at the whole picture because there's been a lot of attention on polar bears”

The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal. via WIBW-TV Topeka