LONG BEACH, Calif. — A hunk of romaine was easy pickings for Porkchop and her three flippers.

On a rainy day last week, the green sea turtle pumped her limbs and stretched her beak up to chomp a lettuce leaf floating on the surface of a tank at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. That’s where she’s been on the mend since early ...Read more

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Lawmakers representing Kentucky’s mountainous Appalachian counties are coalescing behind an effort this legislative session to bolster resiliency to natural disasters in the wake of extreme Eastern Kentucky floods.

Several members of the General Assembly’s Mountain Caucus will seek funding this year to form a new agency-...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Tuesday took initial steps toward addressing the public safety concerns posed by the state’s growing populations of wolves, mountain lions and other predators — issues the state’s top environmental official called a crisis.

A packed hearing before the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and ...Read more

Pinterest said Tuesday it's planning to slash up to 15% of its workforce.

The San Francisco-based image-sharing platform used for inspiration for home decor, fashion and other interests is laying off workers as part of a restructuring plan.

It will partly use the savings to fund "AI-focused roles and teams that drive AI adoption and execution,...Read more

SpaceX launched its latest national security mission, yet another GPS satellite that was originally to have been launched by United Launch Alliance.

A Falcon 9 that was delayed from Monday because of weather lifted off Tuesday night on the GPS III-9 mission to bring the satellite to medium-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s...Read more

No matter where you live in the United States, you have likely seen headlines about PFAS being detected in everything from drinking water to fish to milk to human bodies.

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of over 10,000 synthetic chemicals. They have been used for decades to make products waterproof and stain- ...Read more

California marked a milestone this month with the return of an uninterrupted Highway 1 through the perilous, yet spectacular cliffs of Big Sur.

The famed coastal road was closed for more than three years after two major landslides buried the two-lane highway, and it took unprecedented engineering might and precarious debris removal to once ...Read more

Satechi, a company focused on creating tech accessories that work great, look great and improve people's lives, has a few new products out meeting those goals.

The 7-in-1 USB-C Multiport Adapter ($59.99), part of the Satechi OntheGo Collection for mobile connectivity, offers seven of the most popular ports for connecting just about anything ...Read more

Recently I got an email from a reader, “Quite a while ago, based on a review in your column, I purchased 3 Kasa plugs (for inside lights) and a Kasa switch (for front outside lights). I loved them. However, a few months ago my Wi-Fi router (from Spectrum) became balky so Spectrum gave me a new updated one. This was labeled as WiFi-7. Alas, ...Read more

MIAMI — Nearly every sunny windowsill at New River Middle School is occupied by a reused jar filled with a handful of pebbles, an inch or two of water and a few slender, brown, pen-like tubes.

They’re baby mangroves — propagules, to be exact — and they’re the future of this Fort Lauderdale school’s campus.

Mangroves are everywhere ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Actor and filmmaker Edward Norton visited the California Capitol on Tuesday to promote his company’s clean air technology that captures ship emissions.

Speaking with senators during a break in their regular session, Norton said Stax Engineering, where he is a founding partner, developed a system that captures ship ...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to roll back federal particulate matter pollution standards will harm Michigan residents, particularly those who live near emitters such as manufacturing plants and refineries in Wayne County, health and environmental advocates warned Tuesday.

The move is a "clear giveaway to corporate polluters...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are searching for the person who shot a bald eagle near Northglenn two weeks ago, violating federal law.

Wildlife officers discovered the injured eagle on Jan. 12 at Croke Reservoir, near West 104th Avenue and Huron Street, according to a news release from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. X-rays ...Read more

Amid the discussion between U.S. President Donald Trump and Danish and European leaders about who should own Greenland, the Inuit who live there and call it home aren’t getting much attention.

The Kalaallit (Inuit of West Greenland), the Tunumi (Inuit of East Greenland) and the Inughuit (Inuit of North Greenland) together represent ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County supervisors will vote Wednesday on a $4.75 million funding proposal aimed at studying health impacts and reducing toxic emissions from the ongoing Tijuana River pollution crisis.

The proposal, presented by the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on the Tijuana River Sewage Crisis, includes funding for epidemiological studies and ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, with the support of many congressional Republicans, is looking to boost deep-sea mining as a way to counter Chinese dominance of critical minerals supply chains.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a final rule on Jan. 21 that would speed up the process companies must go ...Read more

Ikea is expanding.

But this time it’s not with new physical stores. The home design company is entering the virtual world.

The retailer, which has its U.S. headquarters in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, announced this week that it is testing an immersive product experience on the Roblox platform.

Sweden and Australia are the first two pilot ...Read more

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the longleaf pine. The forest once stretched across 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, but about 5% of that original forest remains. It was one of North America’s richest ecosystems, and it nearly disappeared.

...Read more

Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers such as sodium chloride, or rock salt, as well as more modern salt alternatives.

As an environmental scientist who studies water pollution, I know that much of the excess salt ...Read more