When a wildfire notification goes off on your mobile phone, it can trigger all kinds of emotions and confusion.

You might glance outside and see no smoke. Across the street, your neighbors have mixed reactions: One is leisurely walking their dog, another is calmly packing a small bag, while a third appears to be preparing for an ...Read more

When people think of wildlife trade, they often picture smugglers sneaking in rare and endangered species from far-off countries. Yet most wildlife trade is actually legal, and the United States is one of the world’s biggest wildlife importers.

New research that we and a team of colleagues published in the Proceedings of the ...Read more

SEATTLE — The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and coevolved species.

Salmon are struggling to survive. So are the families of endangered southern resident orcas, with a population of just 73, not improved in years. Their plight has been on full display, ...Read more

After a week of nasty weather across Florida, the business of launching rockets got back on track Monday afternoon.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off at 5:05 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 carrying 21 of the company’s Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.

The first-stage booster for the ...Read more

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that’s just over a year old, has stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley after demonstrating breakthrough artificial-intelligence models that offer comparable performance to the world’s best chatbots at seemingly a fraction of the cost.

DeepSeek’s emergence may offer a counterpoint to the widespread...Read more

After a week of nasty weather across Florida, the business of launching rockets could get back on track Monday afternoon.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 looks to lift off at 3:22 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 carrying 21 of the company’s Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit during a launch window that runs ...Read more

A fatal neurological illness that affects deer known as chronic wasting disease has been detected in Georgia for the first time, state wildlife officials announced Thursday.

The Georgia case was detected in a 2½-year-old white-tailed deer harvested on private property in Lanier County, northeast of Valdosta. The animal was tested as part of ...Read more

DENVER — An “essential” Colorado River water conservation program faces dual threats as the new Trump administration attempts to freeze its funding and a lapse in authorization creates delays that may make participation unfeasible this year for many farmers.

The pilot program has paid water users — mostly farmers and ranchers — in the...Read more

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

Students from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, led by ecology professor Brian Pickles, traveled to Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta for a field course in July 2023, according to a Jan. 23 ...Read more

While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried about what could come next.

The potential for rain the weekend of Jan. 25-26 could help tamp down the fires. But rain can also trigger dangerous floods and debris flows on burned hillslopes.

These flows ...Read more

President Donald Trump used his first day in office to slam the brakes on the renewable energy industry, issuing an executive order to temporarily halt federal leasing, permitting and approval of both onshore and offshore wind energy projects.

But a Virginia Beach wind farm already under construction will be spared the immediate effects of the ...Read more

SEATTLE — A conservative think tank filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two Washington state agencies over delays in reporting the state's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Washington Policy Center said in a news release that it filed the lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Ecology and the Department of Commerce to force the agencies...Read more

President Trump on Tuesday announced that OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank are partnering on a venture to direct more than $100 billion toward computing infrastructure that will power artificial intelligence in the United States.

"It will ensure the future of technology," Trump said at a news conference at the White House, where he was joined by ...Read more

Despite San Francisco police repeatedly saying OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s death was a suicide, influential figures on both ends of the political spectrum are spreading questions about foul play, raised by the young man’s grieving family, around the world.

Former Fox News provocateur Tucker Carlson, on his Tuesday podcast, spoke ...Read more

Silicon Valley has come a long way.

In suits and ties on the dais behind President Donald Trump during his inauguration speech Monday — inches from the President’s family — sat Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

It was a ...Read more

Los Angeles is burning, but it isn’t alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and Greece. What wasn’t burned was smoked in.

Is this another case of a future not only dire but strange, without a narrative to join ...Read more

Incarcerated people in Colorado are exposed to climate-related extreme heat and cold, plus flooding and wildfires. Because they’re unable to escape these hazards, their health suffers and some die.

“I remember it being summer, and there’s no way to get away from the sun. And I remember people just burning,” said one formerly ...Read more

After four years of U.S. progress on efforts to deal with climate change under Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is swiftly swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction.

On his first day back, Trump declared a national energy emergency, directing agencies to use any emergency powers available to boost oil and ...Read more

An email from a friend last week led to a lengthy text exchange to help him locate his camera app, which had gone missing from his iPhone.

“Somehow the camera icon fell off my screen. I must have accidentally removed it. Can you tell me how to get my camera back on my iPhone home screen?”

This friend is proficient in using his phone, but ...Read more

January's Consumer Electronics Show showcased the latest and greatest in technology and gadgets. This included miles and miles of trade show space that easily allowed you to get your 10,000 steps — I hit over 30,000 on several days. The show listed more than 4,500 exhibitors, more than 141,000 attendees and more than 6,000 media members.

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