When a heat wave arrives, the public health advice follows a familiar script: drink water, watch for heat stroke, check on people with heart or lung conditions. That list saves lives. But it leaves out something that shapes daily life for millions of older Americans – chronic pain.

In a new study, public health professor Kai Zhang ...Read more

The nationwide cyclospora outbreak is very likely a result of sewage contamination in the food supply, according to scientific researchers and public health officials.

The parasite’s spread can become a self-perpetuating cycle. Cyclospora is found only in humans, where it replicates in the intestinal tract, causing severe diarrhea. ...Read more

CHICAGO — As temperatures hovered around 80 degrees and few clouds obscured a bright blue sky, many people took the opportunity to enjoy a summer day last week at Montrose Beach. Children dug holes in the sand. Families kicked around soccer balls. And some cautiously waded into water against crashing waves.

At a nearby stone pier, people ...Read more

When the temperature soars in California , people and pets stay indoors, seek out air-conditioned spots or head the nearest lake, river or swimming pool.

What about rattlesnakes?

Where do snakes go when highs climb into the triple digits?

Here’s what to know:

What happens to rattlesnakes in hot weather?

As cold-blooded critters, you might...Read more

Last fall, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game brought 19 Sitka black-tailed deer from an island near Kodiak to the bottom of the Kenai Peninsula as part of an effort to see how the animals would fare.

Not well, it turned out.

At least 13 of the deer died. Another one slipped out of its GPS collar, and the department isn't sure if it ...Read more

Arizona and Nevada will feel the brunt of the pain under a federal plan to reduce stress on the Colorado River. It’s an unjust solution, particularly for the Silver State.

Recently, the Interior Department released a 10-year blueprint to address water shortages on the Colorado. The river has been over-allocated for a century, and long-term ...Read more

For months, the Trump administration has sought to open the California coast to a radically industrialized future: large-scale desalination plants, floating nuclear reactors, more rocket launches and expanded offshore oil drilling along the state’s most iconic beaches.

Holding the line against all this is a little-known but longstanding ...Read more

MIAMI — Forever chemicals have found their way into drinking water across the country, including in Miami-Dade, and new research shows that levels are highest in places like Little Havana, Hialeah and Pembroke Pines.

These forever chemicals, also known as PFAS or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, have leached from everything from ...Read more

At 20 years old, Alex Hicks faced a problem most college students never encounter: The online games he was creating were generating six figures in revenue every month.

So he dropped out.

Today, Hicks is a co-founder of Twin Atlas, a Las Vegas-based game studio with roughly 110 employees that develops some of the most-played experiences on ...Read more

A beaver that bit a 19-year-old fisherman at Cunningham Falls State Park earlier this week tested positive for rabies, the Frederick County Health Department said.

This is the second beaver to contract and test positive for rabies in the past two weeks. A 13-year-old boy who was swimming at the William Houck Area’s popular North Beach needed ...Read more

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a complaint Thursday alleging that a cohort of the companies that make “forever chemicals” partook in a massive corporate shell game to defraud the state and others.

In an amendment to a 2022 lawsuit filed by Bonta against the makers of these chemicals, the state now alleges that several DuPont ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Another offshore wind company has entered into an agreement with the Trump administration to walk away from projects along the coast of the United States, including one in California.

German energy giant RWE said Thursday it reached a $1.22 billion deal with the U.S. Interior Department to abandon wind leases off New York, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley. Few imagined the calamity that would follow.

Somehow the landfill’s pollution control system introduced oxygen below, causing decades-old waste to rapidly decompose, generating intense heat...Read more

One malfunctioning valve has been identified as the reason why Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a test that destroyed much of the company’s launch pad in Cape Canaveral.

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp gave an update on the company’s investigation to the May 28 incident that resulted in a massive fireball that destroyed the rocket...Read more

When a wildfire is headed your way, evacuating may sound straightforward: Gather your belongings, get in the car and leave.

In reality, it is one of the most complex decisions a person can face.

Fast-moving fires, shifting winds, heavy smoke and limited escape routes can quickly turn an orderly evacuation into gridlock. In ...Read more

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Illinois — Tens of thousands of gallons of fluid spilled from the open pit, urged on by heavy spring rains and unencumbered by an emergency pump disabled by a power failure.

The toxic mix of oil and an underground water called brine, several times saltier than the ocean, poured into a ditch along Petrolia Lane and crept ...Read more

A 19-year-old fisherman was bitten on the leg by a beaver in Cunningham Falls State Park in Frederick County on Wednesday morning, a Maryland Department of Natural Resources spokesperson said.

This is the second beaver attack at Cunningham Falls in the past two weeks. The incident occurred in the South Beach Day Use area of the park at about 9:...Read more

The U.S. government’s top information security official warned that computer systems nationwide need to bolster their defenses to meet the growing threat of cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence.

During remarks Wednesday, Acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Duffy said that the government and private-sector ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Jeff Bezos filed plans Monday to sell nearly $4.1 billion in Amazon stock as shares hit a new all-time high.

Since stepping down as Amazon’s CEO in 2021, the company’s founder has been selling off tens of billions of dollars’ worth of Amazon stock. The sales are part of prearranged trading plans, which are meant to shield ...Read more

Part of a SpaceX rocket, about the size of a school bus, is believed to have collided with the moon, independent scientists said Wednesday.

The rocket carried two lunar landers into space earlier this year, one for NASA and another from a Japanese company. After the lunar landers separated from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the team sought to ...Read more