Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles — even lobster boats — to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation's populace. Hand-delivering 2010 census questionnaires in the bush of Alaska, Maine's North Woods and other isolated regions isn't as simple ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Cruise companies are balking at a proposal to create a low-emissions buffer zone around the United States and Canada, saying it sets arbitrary boundaries based on faulty science that overstates the health benefits. The proposed Emissions Control Area would extend 200 nautical miles, which is 230 statute miles, around the coast of the two nations and set stringent ...

NEWBURYPORT, Mass (Reuters Life!) - On a recent frigid morning, winds howling in from the west, David Weaver peered through binoculars over the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, scanning for an icon: the American bald eagle. Haliaeetus leucocephalus, America's national bird, is frequently seen in winter in the Joppa Flats area, where the Merrimack widens and meets the churning Atlantic Ocean ...