water environment

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — For years, Mark Hager’s job as an observer aboard New England fishing boats made him a marked man, seen as a meddling cop on the ocean,…

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — Scientists along the West Coast are calling for action to help sunflower sea stars, among the largest sea stars in the world, recover from catastrophic population declines.Experts say a sea star wasting…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS - Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday approved a nearly $700 million plan to remove all lead water pipes in the Denver region, saying the local water…

MONTROSE, Pa. (AP) — A plea hearing has been scheduled for next week in the long-running case of a natural gas driller facing felony charges over allegations it polluted the aquifer of a small Pennsylvania community 14…

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Lettuce will be on the menu again this year for Florida manatees as part of an effort to slow the starvation deaths of the beloved marine…

AP JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Local officials in Mississippi's capital city, where a late summer water crisis upended life for 150,00 people, have approved an emergency plan to increase staffing at the city's…

By MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and JASON DEAREN - Associated Press Federal health officials are conducting a new study to determine whether veterans once stationed at a now-shuttered California…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Rochelle H. Holm, University of Louisville(THE CONVERSATION) Flush and forget? Not if you have a toilet that…

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday it's ready to begin draining 1 gallons (3.79 million liters) of fuel from three pipelines…

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The death of a Las Vegas-area teenager from a rare brain-eating amoeba that investigators think he was exposed to in warm waters at Lake Mead should…