In a neighborhood flanked by grapevines and orange groves on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, people cannot drink the water from their faucets because it’s contaminated.

Residents in the area north of Porterville, many of them farmworkers, have been discussing a solution, which they expect will require running pipes to connect to the ...Read more

Imagine living in the same forest as your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and all your ancestors as far back in time as stories can tell, and depending on the forest for food, shelter, recreation and education. Imagine, then, that the forest depends on you, too, because you and your people have protected it for generations.

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It’s official: El Niño is back. By late fall 2026, forecast models give a 2-in-3 chance of a strong-to-very strong El Niño affecting the weather, climate and ocean temperatures across the planet.

El Niño is the climate system’s biggest player and one side of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. It’s the heads to La Ni�...Read more

OpenAI is under investigation by a coalition of state attorneys general who requested information from the artificial intelligence company on a wide range of topics.

A spokesperson for the company said it was cooperating with the probe.

“AI is a new and powerful technology, and we work every day to safely bring its benefits to people in a ...Read more

On the same day Elon Musk’s SpaceX debuts on Wall Street, the company was business as usual launching another batch of Starlink satellites from the Space Coast.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-54 mission carrying 29 of the broadband internet satellites lifted off at 8:37 a.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch...Read more

PITTSBURGH — For more than a century, antibiotics have been medicine's go-to weapon against bacterial infections.

But as drug-resistant bacteria become increasingly common, researchers are looking to an oft-overlooked ally: viruses.

At the University of Pittsburgh, scientists are helping lead a national effort to advance phage therapy, a ...Read more

As South Bay communities continue to grapple with closed beaches, toxic air and raw sewage, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that $46 million in voter-approved funding is now available to help clean up the polluted Tijuana River that flows from Mexico into the U.S. — though local officials caution relief won’t come overnight. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday opened protected Pacific Ocean waters to commercial fishing, lifting restrictions that barred the activity within three marine national monuments.

With a presidential proclamation signed in the Oval Office, Trump removed the fishing limits within portions of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine ...Read more

Four tons of invasive Burmese pythons were removed from South Florida ecosystems during the latest breeding season, setting a record for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

The achievement marks a new milestone in the fight against the giant snakes, which are considered one of the greatest threats to the Everglades ecosystem because of their ...Read more

Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and public backlash about where to build them.

I’m a law professor and executive director of Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy. I’m also a native of Archbald, a borough of 7,500 residents in the Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania. My hometown ...Read more

China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of animals for millennia.

It’s not the first time Tibetan regions have become a major source of renewable energy in China. Since the mid-1990s, many Tibetan communities have lived alongside hydropower stations.<...Read more

CHICAGO -- Late at night in 2016, Michael Ramos sat hunched over his dining room table in his suburban Harwood Heights condominium, assembling valves and motor parts he’d picked up from local electronics shops.

By day, he worked as a building engineer at Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center high school in Chicago. By night, he tried to ...Read more

SANTA ROSA ISLAND, Calif. — Just steps above a white sand beach with calm, turquoise waves, the effects of the largest fire in Channel Islands National Park history are particularly stark: Fields of island grasses and chaparral have been reduced to ash, the earth singed to black. Hillsides are colored a rusty red from desperate retardant drops...Read more

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said the government should have the power to block artificial intelligence developers from deploying new AI models if they present certain risks.

In a lengthy essay on Wednesday, Amodei argued that AI models should undergo mandatory testing by third parties to assess the risk they pose across ...Read more

People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a once-forested hillside, or a ghostly white coral reef, may evoke tragedy and despair. But in nature, most plants and animals are recycled back into new life.

The fallen branches and leaves that crunch under your boots as ...Read more

My last review was a robot vacuum. This week, we let the robots outside to let it cut the grass.

Years ago, my first experience with robot mowers required a wire to be buried around the perimeter of the yard. When the manufacturer offered to come have a wire buried at my house for testing, it was more than I wanted to deal with, as I’m a ...Read more

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, filed confidentially for a public listing on Monday, following a similar filing by rival Anthropic last week, as AI developers compete to cash in on surging investor interest in artificial intelligence.

It is the first step to start gauging investor interest in what would probably be one of the biggest IPOs in ...Read more

Buoyed in the Pacific, small sea vessels have traveled autonomously from San Diego shores to locate Chinese ghost fleets in Taiwanese waters.

These small skiffs, created by San Diego-based startup Seasats, are vital to reconnaissance, intelligence, and surveillance missions at sea. In the middle of the ocean, dependable internet is hard to come...Read more

Day of the Devs is always a delight, offering new experiences for fans who are tired of the same old shooters and sports games. Indie studios pour their hearts into these passion projects, and it shows in their quirkiness, weirdness and most importantly their innovative ideas.

They challenge conventions or offer a fresh look at an old genre. ...Read more

Formulas, over time, tend to become formulaic. That’s not the case with “Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight,” the fourth entry in the “Lego Batman” series that began in 2008. The formula is familiar: a licensed property set in a world built out of Legos. But instead of just repeating what’s worked in the past, “Legacy” ...Read more