Lakes
CHICAGO - Five states are asking a federal judge in Chicago to take emergency action to close two shipping locks and install barriers to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes via a "carp highway."
At the first hearing in the case Monday, Judge Robert M.
MOSCOW - A band of 100 masked people staged a violent environmental protest in a quiet Moscow suburb, hurling Molotov cocktails and fireworks at city hall while objecting to plans for clearing a local forest for highway construction, Russian police said.
BEIJING - A leading Chinese environmentalist has been released after serving a three-year prison sentence on what he says were trumped up charges of blackmailing polluting businesses.
SHAWANO, Wis. - It's been a tough fight for the whisker-snouted sturgeon.
