The Ringling Brothers circus, after years of protests by animal rights groups, announced that it will phase out elephant acts.

"A long anticipated El Nino has finally arrived. But for drought-struck California, it's too little, too late, meteorologists say."

"FAIRBANKS -- The city of North Pole [AK] filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the two most recent owners of the oil refinery within its borders over sulfolane contamination that has spread into residents' groundwater."

"Australia and the US used the 2007 United Nations climate change conference in Bali to carry out a joint surveillance operation on Indonesia, according to reports."

"They have thwarted the poisons. They have evaded the traps."