TAMPA, Fla. — A legislative proposal that charted the clearest course in years for reviving Florida’s storied Ocklawaha River, dubbed by supporters as the state’s “next great restoration project,” appeared destined for success last month.

Over several weeks, the bill that required a state plan to restore the winding north-central ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s environmental agency plans to test the soil at an elementary school near Darlington for toxic forever chemicals after learning the property may have been a disposal site for a textile plant’s contaminated sewer sludge.

The S.C. Department of Environmental Services says it has records showing that 91 tons ...Read more

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA hopes it has only one more roll to the launch pad before it gets a shot to launch four astronauts around the moon on the Artemis II mission.

Teams are set to begin the 4.2 mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39-B beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday for what would be around a 12-hour trip.

Winds ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California is suing the Trump administration over its decision to roll back the endangerment finding, the U.S. government’s longstanding scientific conclusion that planet-heating pollution seriously threatens Americans, state officials announced Thursday.

Attorney General Rob Bonta, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Air ...Read more

In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ore into pure zinc metal – poured out of the factory’s stacks, became trapped in the valley and thus blanketed Donora. The air was filled ...Read more

Demand for copper is surging because of demand from new technologies, but suppliers are struggling to keep up, and they are likely to fall further behind in the coming years, resulting in shortfalls globally. Even though copper prices are at historically high levels, the financial risk involved in mining means that prices will need to go much...Read more

In a Sierra Nevada canyon all but incinerated in the 2021 KNP Complex fire, a new forest of California's beloved giant sequoias is now growing. Only not yet one that is actually giant.

The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that ...Read more

CHICAGO — A recent pledge by President Donald Trump to protect the Great Lakes from invasive carp comes as his administration continues to withhold federal funding for a key Illinois project designed to stop the spread into Lake Michigan.

Illinois officials say they welcome the president’s public support but are urging immediate action. ...Read more

Each year Game Developers Conference, Microsoft hosts an event normally focused on indie projects, but this year, it has expanded its focus, reflecting a change in the company. It’s now called the Xbox Play Anywhere Showcase, and it featured projects from smaller studios with some backed by AA publishers.

Here’s a list of five titles that...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — When he’s not at work, Sam Dove drives a Chevy Silverado 1500. But on the job, he gets behind the wheel of a 16-million-pound behemoth that’s been transporting NASA’s rockets for more than 60 years.

Dove gets to drive the crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), which was one of two tracked vehicles originally designed to ...Read more

When the power goes out and stays off for hours, the result can be more than just a hassle – for millions of Americans who rely on medical equipment, losing electricity can become a medical emergency.

Your neighbor might rely on an oxygen concentrator to breathe – a machine the size of a carry-on bag that hums quietly through the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh’s own rising video game design studio recently spearheaded “God of War: Sons of Sparta” — the latest entry in the widely beloved triple-A franchise — and emerged a different outfit.

With more than 66 million units sold since the God of War series debuted on Playstation 2 in 2005, the opportunity to transform ...Read more

I had an email exchange with a reader yesterday.

He wrote, “I recently bought a pair of Dayton speakers for my desktop. They connect via Bluetooth, which is fine, but every time Bluetooth connects/disconnects from the speakers, it makes a LOUD ding-dong alert sound, which I find rather annoying. I can't find anything online about adjusting ...Read more

LONDON — Playing Tetris could help reduce distressing memories of trauma, a study has found.

Health workers who played the classic computer game as part of their treatment experienced fewer flashbacks, researchers said.

Experts are now hoping to test the method, which they describe as “accessible, scalable and adaptable," on a larger ...Read more

Being the owners of two dogs who shed, we wage a daily battle against the fur. We keep up with it, but having a vacuum like the new Ultenic U15 smart cordless to test instantly made life easier.

The Ultenic U15 is lightweight, doesn’t take up much closet space, and is easy to move around. It stands upright; often this style is referred to ...Read more

You can’t talk about Goichi Suda without mentioning Travis Touchdown, the protagonist of the “No More Heroes” series. The bombastic otaku has always been “the representative character of Grasshopper Manufacture, like a mascot in a way,” according to the video game developer.

But after nearly 20 years of working on Travis stories, ...Read more

Every Game Developers Conference, Nintendo highlights projects from several independent studios through its Nintendo Partner Preview. The smorgasborg of games shows upcoming projects on their systems. They’re not all exclusives, but they are proof that indie studios care about being on the company’s platforms.

The surprising part of the ...Read more

Cute but cantankerous, koalas are making a surprising recovery from a genetic bottleneck, with their once most-threatened populations now displaying a surprising diversity.

“It still looks like they’re in bad shape, but if you dig further, we’re actually finding that there’s recovery from the bottleneck,” study co-author Collin Ahrens...Read more

MIAMI and PALM BEACH, Florida — Last December, a large coterie of Silicon Valley billionaires descended upon Miami to attend Art Basel, the ritzy, contemporary art fair that marks the end of the moneyed set’s yearly social calendar.

Much of the buzz surrounded the spectacle of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, among the world’s richest men,...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration selected eight proposals — including two from Northern California startups — to participate in a nationwide pilot program that will determine if air taxis can be used as a short-range alternative in major metropolitan areas.

Archer Aviation CEO Adam Goldstein hailed the initiative as the flying car ...Read more