Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

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Edward Burtynsky’s Three Gorges Dam Project exposes the environmental ramifications of the controversial Chinese dam, a $180 ...

Josh Wilkie and Fabio Galarce leaned over the side of their boat and hauled up a basket full of oysters, each just an inch or ...

Poza Rica is an oil town, and among the challenges confronting some residents who fled flooding that has killed 64 people ...

Mexico has deployed thousands of troops and civilian rescue teams to hundreds of communities that have been cut off by ...

Death toll from torrential rains in Mexico rises to 64 as search continues for missing - Helicopters ferry food and water to ...