Nation Jul 03 U.S. officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save another species from extinction By Matthew Brown, Associated Press
Science Jul 01 We’re in literal hot water this hurricane season The powerful storm Beryl is acting more like monsters that form in the peak of hurricane season thanks mostly to water temperatures as hot or hotter than the region normally gets in September, experts say. By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
World Jun 27 China says U.S. should ‘remove obstacles’ to allow scientists of all nations to study lunar samples China's space officials said Thursday they welcomed scientists from across the world to apply to study the lunar rock samples the Chang'e 6 probe brought back to Earth in a historic mission, but noted there were limits to that cooperation,… By Huizhong Wu, Associated Press
Science Jun 25 Chinese lunar probe returns to Earth with world’s first samples from the far side of the moon Chinese scientists anticipate the returned samples will include 2.5 million-year-old volcanic rock and other material that scientists hope will answer questions about geographic differences on the moon's two sides. By Huizhong Wu, Associated Press
Nation Jun 24 What to know about the devastating flooding in the Midwest In Iowa, some areas got as much as 15 inches of rain in the span of a few days. By Michael Phillis, Associated Press
Jun 23 Watch 4:17 Meet the ninth grader who’s helping restore Mississippi’s oyster reefs By John Yang, Kaisha Young In the past two decades, the oyster population in Mississippi’s Gulf waters has been devastated by both natural and manmade disasters. Among those working to restore oyster habitats is ninth grader Demi Johnson, who was recently recognized by the National… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 6:27 The big environmental costs of rising demand for big data to power the internet By Ali Rogin, Claire Mufson, Andrew Corkery The rise of artificial intelligence is requiring faster and bigger computations for even simple tasks compared to, say, a Google search. It’s adding to the demand for more internet data centers, but these facilities come at a big environmental cost,… Continue watching
Jun 18 What’s a heat dome? It’s the reason you might be roasting this week By Tammy Webber, Associated Press The National Weather Service has said that the most extreme heat is expected in the Ohio Valley and the Northeast. Continue reading
Jun 15 African elephants address one another by unique name-like calls, new study suggests By Mickey Pardo, The Conversation Humans aren’t the only animals that have names for each other − and studying animals that use names can teach researchers more about how human names evolved. Continue reading
Jun 14 Why is bird flu highly lethal to some animals, but not others? Scientists are trying to find out By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press In the last two years, bird flu has killed millions of wild and domestic birds and mammals worldwide, but it seems to have hardly touched people. And, as it spreads among U.S. dairy cows, it seems to be causing relatively… Continue reading