Researchers pointedly assert that when scientists’ e-mails were stolen, the Heartland Institute chose to distort what was in them. Now the institute finds that some of its own internal documents have been leaked.

No clam fishing will be allowed in part of Hempstead Bay because of state concerns about water quality.

With buildings clamoring for bins in which residents can leave clothing to be sold or reprocessed, fewer discards will go to landfills.

Bangladesh is creating two dolphin preserves, in a country where officials say wildlife conservation will have to be balanced with the demands of a growing human population.

Shell has proposed drilling up to six wells in the Chukchi Sea during the next two summer open-water seasons about 70 miles off the coast. The Obama administration says Shell has assured ready availability of a capping stack and an oil collection syste…

Researchers discover that the endangered western whale can make its way around the world rather than sticking to the coast of one continent.

Methane from a landfill will flow to a power plant, helping to keep the lights on in the city.

In a pilot program, environmental officials will install remote sensors at five places where sewage can enter the city’s waterways so that bathers and skiers are not caught unaware.

Efforts to undermine climate-science instruction are beginning to spread across the country, defenders of science education say, and they fear a long fight similar to that over the teaching of evolution in public schools.

The Heartland Institute, a nonprofit in the climate change denial camp, says that a leaked online document that purportedly details its strategic plans is a fake. But it acknowledges that some of documents aired online were stolen from the institute.