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Environment

When roads meet nests: EU court sets test for bird harm

Europe’s top court says disturbing individual birds isn’t enough to block an Austrian road — what matters is whether populations suffer long-term damage.

States, tribes get partial victory in Columbia River Basin salmon battle

Under a partial injunction, dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers must lower reservoir levels and increase fish spill.

Environmental group accuses feds of dragging feet on coastal bird’s protection decision

Coastal black-throated green warblers have lost 90% of its population in the last century. But conservationists say federal protections would give the songbird "a fighting chance."

Air quality deadline issue for San Joaquin Valley will return to EPA

A Ninth Circuit panel determined that the law and an EPA regulation clash, leading it to remand the question to the agency.

Full DC Circuit grills DOJ over effort to claw back billions in green energy funds

A prior three-judge panel, led by two Donald Trump appointees, approved the government’s summary termination of the $16 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program.

A bumper berry harvest has New Zealand’s weird flightless parrot in a rare mood for romance

The painstaking work to preserve the species might seem odd to outsiders, but the parrot is just one of many spirited and strange avians in a country where birds reign supreme.