LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s Colorado River czar offered little concrete insight into the status of negotiations at a summit Wednesday as the state braces for the federal government to hand down a final operating plan its water managers aren’t happy with.

“There’s hope that things can change,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the ...Read more

NASA says it wants to build bases on the moon. Maryland's Eastern Shore could become a key part of that effort.

“We’re going to the moon, and we’re going to build a moon base, and we’re going to stay,” Wallops Director David Pierce said Wednesday.

Pierce was among the government, business and education leaders gathered at Salisbury ...Read more

It’s hard to remember a worse time than now to purchase a computer.

Computer hardware prices have spiked globally over the past year, and experts say they won’t get cheaper anytime soon. From companies purchasing desktop workstations and students buying back-to-school laptops or a new phone, consumers in Tampa Bay after a new machine may ...Read more

Mark Zuckerberg wants AI for all, not just a few.

In the last month, there has been heated debate in Silicon Valley and Washington over whether advanced artificial intelligence is too dangerous to be freely available as an open-source model for anyone to download and use, and whether its development should thus be locked down and tightly ...Read more

As summer temperatures soar across the United States and Europe, cities are being forced to confront the difficult reality that they’re getting dangerously hot.

Record-breaking heat waves strain power grids, send people to cooling shelters and can make the top floors of some apartment buildings unlivable.

One way to help ...Read more

The Fender x Teufel’s Rockstar Cross Bluetooth 5.0 speaker has it all: great sound at any volume and a rugged, good-looking design for portability.

Inside the rugged 5.1-by-15-by-6.3-inch, 5.3-pound speaker are two tweeters, a woofer and two passive radiators that deliver powerful, room-filling sound. It played much louder than I ever ...Read more

This week, a reader writes, “Please tell me how to block sexually explicit emails. I block them but that doesn’t stop them.”

Yikes.

Nobody needs uninvited sexually explicit emails in their inbox.

We have all dealt with spam email messages, and they’re certainly no fun.

This reader’s email account (sbcglobal.net) is from a legacy ...Read more

“Marvel Snap” has had an uneven year. It started strong with a season focused on dragons and a second volume of Guardians of the Galaxy. Second Dinner introduced powerful cards that overwhelmed players with power and needed tweaking.

The next two months, March and April, introduced a new quest-like mechanic called Objectives. The cards ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois is requiring polluters to begin reporting spills of industrial plastic pellets known as nurdles, a growing source of contamination in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.

Companies that manufacture, use or transport nurdles also must develop plans to limit them in storm runoff, making the state the first in ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Coastkeeper and the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation have settled a yearslong Clean Water Act lawsuit against the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission and its contractor, Veolia Water West Operating Services, over alleged pollution violations at the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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LOS ANGELES — “One bald eagle changed the world.”

So wrote Victoria Novak of Georgia, referring to Jackie, the internet-famous bald eagle who died Monday after weeks of intensive care for a mysterious illness.

Novak was far from alone. Her sentiment echoed nearly 200 responses to a callout asking readers what Jackie meant to them. ...Read more

California will begin phasing out paraquat, a powerful weedkiller associated with birth defects, thyroid issues and other serious health problems.

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation said this week all manufacturers of pesticide products containing the active ingredient have voluntarily agreed to withdraw the product from the ...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — Suicide Basin, the source of Juneau’s annual glacial outburst floods, was full as of 9 a.m. Tuesday, putting the Mendenhall Valley on standby.

With the basin full, the 2026 flood is expected to occur within one to six days. The flood begins when water from Suicide Basin, which is dammed by the side of the Mendenhall Glacier...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The University of California, San Diego is now at the center of a global contest that hopes to unlock quality-of-life gains in the same way that a previous competition revolutionized commercial spaceflight.

The university announced Tuesday that its Stein Institute for Research on Aging will serve as the central laboratory and ...Read more

Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing – and potentially fatal – threat to people in the U.S. and beyond.

Vibrio vulnificus, a type of flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in warm seawater, is once again threatening the safety of beachgoers and raw shellfish enthusiasts. To date, ...Read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — In a striking demonstration of support, hundreds of fired-up Californians rallied in Santa Monica to speak out against the Trump administration’s attempt to wrest local control over the state’s beloved coastline.

The Golden State’s top environmental leaders, along with prominent elected officials, environmentalist...Read more

When fire evacuation orders are lifted and residents start returning to burned neighborhoods, many people assume “cleared to return” means “safe.” It rarely does.

As an environmental engineer who has worked with communities recovering from some of the most destructive wildfires in U.S. history, I have seen the same pattern ...Read more

SpaceX was back on the pad Tuesday knocking out the Space Coast’s 51st orbital launch of the year just before noon as part of what’s lining up to be a busy month in Florida.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-19 mission with 29 Starlink satellites lifted off at 11:58 a.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...Read more