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Bastrop State Park is showing signs of rebirth, but the focus now is on preventing future fires like the one that burned 96 percent of its 6,613 acres last year.

The estimated multibillion-dollar settlement in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was fleshed out on Wednesday in hundreds of pages of motions and exhibits.

A conservative weather forecaster tries to nudge Republicans to embrace the science on global warming.

An unusually dry few months resulted in thousands of bird deaths, and some worry that the problem could recur unless the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge is accorded more water rights.

A NASA contest invites citizens to explain what they appreciate about the agency’s mission to understand Earth.

American gains in clean energy could all be lost unless the federal government renews a variety of subsidies and production credits that have supported such technologies, a report warns.

The Goldman Prize goes to Ikal Angelei, a Kenyan activist, for persuading investors to withdraw support for a dam project that would devastate communities dependent on Lake Turkana.

Penguin’s out of Antarctica was all conveyed in dark tones in 2009.

Scientists counting Antarctica’s emperor penguins from space have found twice as many of them as expected.

President Obama calls for the creation of an interagency task force to ensure the “safe and responsible development” of natural gas drilling even though hydraulic fracturing is regulated at the state level.

NASA astronauts, like the rest of us, are divided on the significance of global warming.

More discussions of ways to sustain the world’s ecosystems as the human footprint spreads.

The industry faces major obstacles, but amid concern about global warming, there is support for at least keeping a toe in the water.

The hunt for new oil and gas reserves is heading into Africa and other unexplored territories as subsidies for alternative energy are cut and as a result of the nuclear crisis in Japan last year.