MOJAVE DESERT — The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs.

But it is imperiled in California thanks in part to an unusual predator: off-road vehicles that race through thousands of miles of trails — official and unofficial �...Read more

A rare and threatened species of red fox has been spotted in the Tahoe Basin for the first time since the mid-1900s, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced.

The Sierra Nevada red fox strolled through the Blackwood Canyon area in Placer County, sniffing at some downed tree branches before heading off into the night — his ...Read more

DENVER — Two wolves roamed separately into the southern end of Colorado’s Front Range mountains in February, passing through watersheds west of Pueblo and Colorado Springs, a map released Wednesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows.

The wolves wandered farther southeast than tracking previously had recorded, but no wolves have spent time...Read more

Anthropic PBC, which for years billed itself as a safer alternative to artificial intelligence rivals, has loosened its commitment to maintaining its guardrails, one of the most dramatic policy shifts in the AI industry yet as startups once focused on helping humanity turn their attention to profit and success.

The company in 2023 said in its ...Read more

The H5N1 bird flu virus that devastated South American elephant seal populations has been confirmed in seals at California's Año Nuevo State Park, researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Santa Cruz announced Wednesday.

The virus has ravaged wild, commercial and domestic animals across the globe ...Read more

The H5N1 bird flu virus that devastated South America’s elephant seal populations has been confirmed in seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Santa Cruz announced Wednesday.

The virus has ravaged wild, commercial and domestic animals across the ...Read more

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke announced Wednesday that it was his medical incident aboard the International Space Station in January that prompted the agency to return the SpaceX Crew-11 mission to Earth early.

“On Jan. 7, while aboard the International Space Station, I experienced a medical event that required immediate attention from my ...Read more

NASA has at least another 8 miles of terrestrial travel to accomplish before it can take on a 600,000-mile trip to space.

With a problem in the Artemis II rocket’s upper stage that cannot be fixed at the launch pad, NASA began to roll back the 11 million pounds of hardware from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B to the Vehicle Assembly ...Read more

There’s a funny thing about most wireless smartphone chargers: They need a wire. Often a cable connects the charging pad to its power source. Twelve South’s PowerBug 35-watt magnetic wireless charger is the first I’ve seen that is truly wireless.

Setup is simple: Plug it into any standard household AC outlet to turn it into a MagSafe ...Read more

BERLIN — "Tingus Goose - Weird Idle Game," a mobile and desktop game getting rave reviews on Apple's App Store, delivers on its name with a surreal mix of idle and puzzle mechanics, from bouncing babies that generate cash to finger-feathered geese and more.

It begins with a pregnant person in a hospital bed, someone holding their hand, both...Read more

Slowly but surely, “Monster Hunter Stories” has established itself as more than just a spin-off of Capcom’s famed action role-playing game. It has gone from a small project on the Nintendo 3DS to an ambitious Japanese RPG on the Nintendo Switch that punched above its weight.

Now in its third iteration, “Monster Hunter Stories 3: ...Read more

The cell phone world is divided into two camps – iPhone users and Android users.

Apple curates new features for iOS and Google develops for Android, and they likely don’t spend a ton of time worrying about how their phones interact with phones from the other company.

There are features that are exclusive to iOS or Android that work ...Read more

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs is shaking up the climate tech trade.

The Feb. 20 ruling is good news for companies like Tesla Inc., which have seen production costs soar since last spring. In the third quarter of 2025 alone, the tariff costs on its energy storage business stood at ...Read more

The cold weather didn’t delay SpaceX’s plans to launch another Starlink mission Tuesday, but did delay NASA’s plans to roll back the Artemis II rocket from the launch pad.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 29 of its internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:04 p.m. Eastern time.

The ...Read more

What began as a straightforward question from one water-quality advocate has morphed into a high-stakes battle over an oil pipeline at the highest levels of the U.S. government – with implications that go far beyond the fate of a technical legal conflict.

The question arose after a 2010 Enbridge Energy oil spill in Michigan. The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California’s top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances. But in reality, many of the messages that may have swayed the powerful regulatory agency to scrap the plan were generated by a ...Read more

The decline of California’s kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013-17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, volunteer divers and conservationists. Nor is the threat to kelp localized. Rather the loss, like the expansion of mega-wildfires on land from ...Read more