"You can't put a price on human life," said Sen. Cory Booker. But in the real world, we put a price on life all the time. In my new video, Ken Feinberg explains how he does that. Feinberg was ...

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.

Expanding offshore oil drilling is bad for a lot of reasons, but it’s especially bad for the Rice’s whales. There are fewer ...

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The Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion project, the second-largest sediment diversion project in Louisiana, has been cancelled.

But people will die!” That’s what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a ...

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See the 53 remaining projects under consideration for funding through the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund. The Gulf Coast ...

Brazil's bid to turn the mouth of the Amazon River into a new oil exploration frontier is facing institutional pushback from ...

ROSELAND, La. (WAFB) - Nearly two months after the Smitty’s explosion, people living near and downstream from the Tangipahoa River are still questioning their safety as health concerns mount and ...

From alien-like carcasses to severed feet, and more, here are the weirdest and grossest things ever found on a beach, and the ...