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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are running down the clock to craft a deal to renew the state’s influential cap-and-trade climate policy.

Representatives from the state Assembly, governor’s office and state Senate have been meeting near-daily over the past few weeks to hammer out a deal. Since bills need to be in print for 72 ...Read more

A dying octopus will devote the rest of her life to caring for her eggs at a California aquarium.

But the eggs will never hatch, according to a Sept. 8 Facebook post by the Aquarium of the Pacific.

Ghost, a giant Pacific octopus, has entered the final stage of her life – senescence, the Long Beach aquarium said.

During senescence, a female ...Read more

FOLKSTON, Ga. — On a blast furnace of an August day in Georgia’s southernmost county, Joe Hopkins gripped the steering wheel to steady his truck on the sandy road.

Outside, seemingly endless rows of neatly spaced trees whizzed by — mostly slash pine, the species of choice for foresters in this part of the state.

Hopkins’ family has ...Read more

A SpaceX launch on the Space Coast just after sunset Monday could mean the return of the unique jellyfish effect over Florida’s skies.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Nusantara Lima mission carrying an Indonesian communications satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...Read more

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will need to spend at least $1.6 billion over the next decade to protect its neighborhoods from devastating floods caused by extreme storms, city-hired experts say.

That $1.6 billion is in 2025 dollars, not accounting for inflation.

The longer it takes to do the work, the more the cost will go up.

An outside ...Read more

One of the traits that makes America great is its wilderness. The Trump administration is moving to open to extraction and development tens of millions of acres of forests now protected by a federal regulation known as the Roadless Rule.

In officially designated roadless areas, no new human infrastructure is permitted, except for conservation ...Read more

Six condors in the Central California flock have perished in 2025, but those losses, however tragic, will soon be superseded as 13 juveniles — seven raised in captivity in the Los Angeles Zoo and six raised in the Oregon Zoo — are set for release in October from the mountains high above San Simeon and from Pinnacles National Park.

Moreover,...Read more

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. — The sunlight had barely broken above the horizon of the small park when Carol Stires started calling for the wild horse she’d befriended.

“River! Pretty boy!” she yelled into the otherwise quiet morning.

For a few minutes, nothing happened. A breeze lifted through the cottonwoods, and a few geese called. Then, a...Read more

Biotech company Amgen is investing $600 million into a new research center for its Thousand Oaks, California, campus.

The new site will create hundreds of jobs and feature advanced automation and digital capabilities, the company announced this week.

The investment will add to Amgen's existing research and development operations at its global ...Read more

During a tiger survey at a wildlife sanctuary in India, conservationists noticed a “large-sized” mammal. The brief glimpse intrigued them and led them to set up more trail cameras for a better look at the “smooth-coated” animal.

The resulting photos were a first-of-their-kind record for the site.

A team of researchers was setting up ...Read more

MIAMI -- When Andrew Baker looks out at the vacant lot next to his office on Virginia Key, he doesn’t see the trees or grass that are there now. He sees a factory of the future. One story tall, roughly the size of half a football field. A high-efficiency production line designed not for electronics or auto parts — but for coral.

Such a ...Read more

This is the story of two Republican doctor-senators named Bill.

One of them, as majority leader from 2003 to 2007, helped a self-described “compassionate conservative” Republican president pass a Medicare prescription drug plan and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR ), “the largest commitment by any nation to address...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The retirees gathered at 8 a.m. near the G Line station in Canoga Park, impossible to miss in their neon yellow vests. They clutched trash bags and surveyed the expanse of trash-filled sidewalks and gutters before them.

Group leader Jill Mather, who walks and talks with the efficiency of a military general, laid out the task ...Read more

A scene straight out of a horror movie greeted researchers when they shined lights on a dark Georgia swamp and saw hundreds of red eyes staring back, photos show.

It happened at the Okefenokee Swamp, as the University of Georgia’s Coastal Ecology Lab was conducting an investigation.

“We shone our lights around the boat basin and down the ...Read more

Imagine this: After years of toiling in the Southern California rat race, you buy a parcel of land in the high desert. It is here, on a sunny lot thick with Joshua trees, that you plan to build your retirement home.

But before you can get a shovel into the ground, everything changes. Joshua trees become candidates for the state’s threatened ...Read more

Since the dawn of the new millennium, there have been at most several thousand startup tech companies across the U.S. that have achieved unicorn status — crossing the $1 billion valuation.

Eric Lefkofsky, 55, the Chicago-based serial entrepreneur best known for co-founding online daily deals site Groupon, has given rise to six of them, ...Read more

Cloud computing giant Oracle is laying off 101 employees in Seattle, less than a month after reducing its local workforce.

The cuts from the Austin, Texas-based company, disclosed Tuesday in a state regulatory filing, are the latest in a series of layoff waves hitting the tech industry this year. Since May, Oracle along with cybersecurity firm ...Read more

Next time a Starbucks barista tells you that your favorite latte flavor is out of stock, blame artificial intelligence.

The Seattle-based coffee giant said Wednesday that it is embracing AI technology to keep track of inventory in its coffeehouses.

Over the past few months, Starbucks rolled out “AI-powered automated counting” to assess ...Read more