Corps bans cliff diving at 19 lakes
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Sarah Bonham and her friends have jumped off 40-foot-high sandstone cliffs into Summersville Lake countless times during camping trips and church youth functions.
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Colorado State University, plagued by  drinking binges that led to the death of a student and a  weekend of rioting, has banned all beer sales at the football  stadium starting with the homecoming game this weekend,  officials said on Friday.
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Days of torrential rains in southwest China unleashed floods and landslides that killed at least 19 people, the government said Sunday.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday it is dropping plans to conduct live-fire machine gun practice in 34 zones in the Great Lakes, yielding to widespread complaints about dangers to the environment and humans alike.
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Helicopters and lifeboats involved in sea rescue after 19 people stranded on ferry in Irish Sea
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  May 30--The Army Corps of Engineers is poised to cede part of its authority for regulating wetlands to the state -- a move intended to speed permits for small developments and road projects, especially in wetlands-rich Hampton Roads.
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 9--Mint Hill, Stallings and Indian Trail will have to limit development in a watershed that's home to an endangered mussel, a state panel ruled Thursday.
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By JOHN RABY  CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Sarah Bonham and her friends have jumped off 40-foot-high sandstone cliffs into Summersville Lake countless times during camping trips and church youth functions.  To many teenagers, the summertime rite is as common as tanning and fishing.
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A town in Ohio brought out snowplows and fire hoses Monday to clear the muck away. In New Jersey, the Statehouse was closed after its parking garage was flooded by the Delaware River.
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Lake Tahoe has seen a dramatic reduction in levels of burned and unburned gasoline products in its water since two-stroke, carburetor engines were banned in 1999, water quality officials said.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 6--All-terrain vehicles are a menace in Connecticut, tearing through loopholes in state laws to the detriment of the environment, property rights and public safety.
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Divers came up empty Sunday after searching a swampy lake in Ocala National Forest in central Florida for a 2-year-old boy missing for three weeks.  Police said they planned to take a new course in their search Monday, WFTV-TV in Orlando, Fla., reported.
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More than 50 people were airlifted to safety after landslides caused by violent rain trapped cars on a road in Scotland, just days after flash floods devastated a tourist village in southwest England.
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Lake levels reached record lows last year, and the region worries that fast-growing states and communities will try to grab its water.
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Science & environment: Ban and taxes to curb blot on landscape that threatens health and causes floods
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By Wayne Nelson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Dec. 12--It's been more than two decades since the Lake Region State College men's basketball program recorded back-to-back 20-win seasons.   That drought appears to be over.