WASHINGTON  — Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman disclosed a long-awaited bill Wednesday that aims to curtail pollution blamed for global warming, reduce oil imports and create millions of energy-related jobs.

The 987-page bill, the product of more than seven months of negotiations,...

ROBERT  — Video released by BP shows oil spewing from a yellowish, broken pipe 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the surface. The oil looks like steam rushing from a geyser.

The video released Wednesday gives a not-yet-seen glimpse of the leaking well a mile (1.6 kilometer)...

UNITED NATIONS  — The European Union will push for agreement this year on specific items to put into a global climate treaty without trying to reach a binding accord until 2011, EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said Wednesday.

Hedegaard told The Associated Press such a...

STOCKHOLM  — First he thought it was a piece of plastic floating near the shoreline. When he got closer, 73-year-old Kurt Ove Eriksson realized the 12-foot (3.65-meter) serpent-like object was a rare creature from the depths of the ocean.

Marine biologists later determined Eriksson...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO  — A BP spokesman says a second, smaller oil containment box known as a "top hat" is being brought to the site of a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Spokesman Bill Salvin tells The Associated Press the box will be lowered to the seafloor, away from the...

NORMAN  — Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains of the United States killed five people and injured dozens, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines.

Several tornadoes were reported in the states of Oklahoma and Kansas on Monday as...

UNITED NATIONS  — Far too many of the world's plants and animals — and the wild places that support them — are at risk of collapse, a U.N. report finds, despite a global goal set in 2002 for major improvement by this year.

Frogs and other amphibians are most at risk of extinction,...

HANOI  — A Javan rhino, one of the world's rarest large mammals, has been found shot dead with its horn chopped off in a national park in southern Vietnam, a suspected victim of poachers, conservationists said Monday.

A team of rangers found the rhino's carcass April 29 inside Cat...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO  — A day after icy slush clogged the massive box they hoped would contain an out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials said they may try again — this time with a smaller box.

They also were considering Sunday several other options to stop...

PORTLAND  — Shell Oil is ready to drill in the Arctic Ocean this summer and asked a federal appeals court Thursday to rule quickly on a challenge by environmentalists concerned about the risk of a major spill after the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

Kathleen Sullivan, an attorney for...