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As North America grapples with destructive wildfires, 'super' El Niño may offer hope
LOS ANGELES — As wildfires rage across Canada and the American West, the announcement from federal forecasters that an ... Read More
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This Day in History, July 25
On July 25th, 1894, the first Sino-Japanese War began.
Pennsylvania roads are being coated in radioactive wastewater − here’s why
Pennsylvania’s roughly 100,000 oil and gas wells produce wastewater that’s many times saltier than seawater and contains radium, a known carcinogen. For decades, that saltwater, called brine, was spread on dirt and ...Read more
How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?
For many years, scientists could answer ...Read more
SpaceX Starship launches on 13th test flight
Engines were switched and a tropical storm had moved along, so SpaceX was able to launch the Starship and Super Heavy rocket on its 13th suborbital test mission on Friday night.
The heavy-lift rocket lifted off at 6:51 p....Read more
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Congress weighs killing more seals, sea lions to save salmon
WASHINGTON — Federal lawmakers are considering whether to expand the government’s authority to kill more sea lions and seals to bolster salmon recovery efforts in the Pacific Northwest.
The region’s critical salmon ...Read more
The San Andreas fault has gone ominously silent. Scientists fear when it finally snaps
LOS ANGELES -- It lurks ominously beneath California’s many natural wonders, a reminder that nothing in this landscape is truly permanent.
It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,” the source ...Read more
How climate change could redraw California's wine map
It was Labor Day 2017, and the remote thermometer at McIntyre Estate Vineyard in Monterey County’s Santa Lucia Highlands was registering a noontime temperature Steve McIntyre couldn’t quite believe: 104 degrees.
...Read more
Today's Word "laconic"
laconic \luh-KON-ik\ (adjective) - Sparing with words, concise, terse.
"Lana's laconic way of speaking was completely at odds with her wordy, rambling prose style."
From Latin Laconicus, from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon,...Read more
This Day in History, July 24
On July 24th, 1847, Brigham Young and 148 Mormon pioneers arrived in Salt Lake Valley.
Motherly Love
Black as night I can be,
Until my Mother sits on me;
Then clear as ice I become
In the rough, thank you Mum.
What am I?
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Bertha weakens to tropical depression hours after 2nd landfall, NHC says
Tropical Storm Bertha made its second landfall in two days after skirting Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and coming ashore near the border with Texas on Thursday, then weakened to a tropical depression, according to the National...Read more
OpenAI models break out of test environment, hack company to steal answers
An autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI models escaped a testing environment designed to isolate it from the internet and hacked another company’s systems to steal answers to a cybersecurity test, an “unprecedented”...Read more
The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century, but keeps stripping away protections
President Donald Trump signed proclamations on July 13, 2026, cutting the size of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by roughly 90% – meaning nearly 3 million acres will lose ...Read more
California dodges a bullet on Colorado River cuts
California and two other states have avoided the harshest water cutbacks the Trump administration could have imposed over the next two years to deal with the deepening crisis on the Colorado River.
The Los Angeles Times ...Read more
Are spotted lanternflies on the decline in Maryland? Scientists can't agree.
Spotted lanternflies, the pest that has infested Maryland for 8 years, are shifting their populations across the state as increased predators, effective management techniques and community reporting play a role in the bug�...Read more
Is recent rain enough to get rid of North Carolina's drought?
The Triangle is no longer in exceptional drought, the worst of the drought categories, after recent storms and rain brought some relief to dry conditions throughout the state.
Overall, just 2% of the state is now in ...Read more
Tropical Storm Bertha makes 2nd landfall on Gulf Coast, NHC says
Tropical Storm Bertha made its second landfall in two days after skirting Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and coming ashore near the border with Texas on Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The system made its ...Read more
SpaceX updates Starship progress in Florida ahead of next Texas launch
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is set for its next Starship and Super Heavy test mission from Texas now set for Friday because of poor weather Thursday from Tropical Storm Bertha. It’s the next step on Elon Musk’s company’...Read more
Coral rescue efforts ramp up in Miami as researchers fear another deadly hot year
MIAMI — As underwater temperatures continue to soar in South Florida, the coral shuffle has begun.
Scientists are eyeing any coral that isn’t tied down and making plans to move them somewhere safe: to deeper waters, ...Read more
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