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DENVER — When longtime birder Patrick O’Driscoll saw a massive tropical bird slowly flying over Denver’s City Park last weekend, he almost couldn’t believe his eyes.

Could it be a sandhill crane? No, that didn’t...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Southern California's worst heat wave of the year intensifies and expands across the region Thursday, officials warn the next few days could bring record-breaking high — and low — temperatures.

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NEW YORK — The coastal flooding threat from Hurricane Erin will peak with Thursday night’s high tide, and dangers from the storm will continue into Friday, meteorologists said.

Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the closure of...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the Sierra Nevada, private lands used for logging are more likely to experience high-severity fire that devastates forest ecosystems compared to public lands like National Forests.

It’s a fact that’...Read more

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to orbit during a late-night launch ...Read more

LEE VINING, Calif. — At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush, a naturalist welcomes a group of visitors to Mono Lake beside a sign that reads “Oasis in the Desert.”

Guide Ryan Garrett, his face alight, greets the ...Read more

A rare whale died off the coast of Honduras after ingesting a plastic bag in what’s been described as a “tragic event.”

The marine mammal — a young pygmy sperm whale — was spotted in distress near the island of ...Read more

SEATTLE — It's beautiful, ethereal: When we hear the sound of the Swainson’s thrush in the Pacific Northwest's woods, we know our summer is truly here. Our bird is back, with its signature song gracing our long, summer...Read more

On August 21st, 1831, Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. won’t approve solar and wind projects that hurt farmland, claiming they are inflating electricity prices.

The post on Truth Social, Trump’s latest attack on renewables, comes a day...Read more

One of the best parts of my gig as a tech reviewer is the chance to try out gadgets that might not be on my radar otherwise.

As an IT guy, I spend a lot of my workday on my computer, and I’ve worked my way through a lot...Read more

Centuries after the massive ancestor of modern-day cattle went extinct, a new breed is being released in Denmark to rewild the terrain.

Aurochs, or Bos primigenius, were a species of massive cow that lived hundreds of ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — A man battling a rare brain infection from an amoeba in Lake of the Ozarks has died, state health officials confirmed Wednesday.

The man died Tuesday at a St. Louis area hospital. No other information was ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Conditions along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast will deteriorate over the next 24 to 36 hours as Hurricane Erin makes its closest approach, bringing storm surge flooding and life-threatening rip ...Read more

Cisco Systems and Oracle America have decided to embark on fresh rounds of layoffs that will eliminate a combined 300-plus jobs in the Bay Area, the tech titans disclosed in WARN notices they sent to the state’s labor ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Southern California braces for the most significant heat wave yet this year, officials warn that the dangerously hot temperatures expected at the end of the week are only one of three major concerns.

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