LOS ANGELES — Shadow gingerly places one taloned foot, then the other, on Jackie as she hunkers down on the nest.

With Big Bear Lake glittering in the distance, he raises each foot in a kneading motion — evoking a bald eagle massage.

“Somehow, it says everything about their bond,” reads the caption on the 15-second video posted to ...Read more

BOSTON — It has been a good year for the North Atlantic right whale, according to scientists at the New England Aquarium.

The calving season, from mid-November until mid-April in the Southeast, generated “positive news” for the critically endangered species, as it produced 23 mother-calf pairs, the fourth-highest count ever.

So far this ...Read more

Dramatic temperature jumps marked this March and April in the U.S. Northeast, making it hard to know what to dress for: chilly or sweltering conditions? Researchers have concluded that wild temperature swings are becoming more common as the world heats up.

That’s changing how we experience spring, with plants blooming sooner and consumers ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA said it was not ready to nail down Boeing Starliner’s next flight to the International Space Station as it continues to work through the problems found during its beleaguered Crew Flight Test mission in 2024.

NASA had since last year been targeting Starliner’s return to flight as early as April 2026, but that month ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With the Colorado River’s giant reservoirs declining toward critically low levels, negotiators for California, Arizona and Nevada announced Friday that they have agreed on a water-saving plan for the next two years.

Representatives of the three states said in a written statement that their plan aims to “stabilize the ...Read more

Eight technology companies, including Google, Nvidia and SpaceX, have struck deals with the Pentagon to help the U.S. military gain an edge on the battlefield.

"These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters' ability to maintain ...Read more

SpaceX began the month of May with a launch of its workhorse rocket from Cape Canaveral with, just days after its bigger brother, the Falcon Heavy, helped set a record for different types of rockets flown in one month on Florida's Space Coast.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 more of the Starlink broadband satellites lifted off at 2:06 p.m. EDT ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the war with Iran sends the price of virgin plastic skyward, speculation is growing as to whether recycled plastic could finally have its day after struggling for years to gain a greater foothold among manufacturers.

Not since the collapse of the global recycling market in 2018 and the COVID-19 pandemic has the world faced as...Read more

The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects nationwide retail gasoline prices to average near US$4.30 a gallon for April 2026 – the highest monthly average of the year. The political response has been familiar. Georgia has suspended its state gas tax, other states are weighing their own tax holidays, and the White House has issued a ...Read more

As FIFA prepares to bring the largest-ever World Cup to Los Angeles and other parts of North America this summer, the global soccer organization is again promoting a commitment to environmental sustainability. But some of its sponsorship agreements tell a different story — including a premiere deal with the largest oil and gas company in the ...Read more

It's a sight to behold — the 1-ton sea lion peeking his head out of the water in San Francisco Bay and triggering a panic as other sea lions hustle to get out of the way.

There's a lot of barking, and suddenly the big fella hops onto the wood platform, sending the other pinnipeds jostling for a new spot in the sun or diving back into the ...Read more

Scientists in Florida have launched a new offensive against the Burmese python invasion, this time using opossums, one of the giant snake’s favorite prey.

The initiative comes from biologists A.J. Sanjar and Michael Cove of the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Key Largo, South Florida.

The researchers attach tracking devices to ...Read more

A particularly massive sea lion has Bay Area tourists and residents flocking to Pier 39 in San Francisco to spot the mammal affectionately named "Chonkers."

"Chonkers" is a Steller sea lion, which is a heftier variety of the species, compared to his California sea lion counterparts.

The animal first showed up at Pier 39 about a month ago and ...Read more

A flash of “greenish” light blazed through Gerald Tracy’s windows early Wednesday morning, lighting up his apartment in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood.

It was like someone turned the overheads on, but it was the middle of the night, Tracy said.

“At first, I thought it was lightning or something,” Tracy said.

He had been lying ...Read more

A coalition of Maryland environmental groups is asking a Baltimore County judge to strike down or overhaul a state stormwater permit they say is too weak to curb industrial pollution flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.

Five organizations, including the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Blue Water Baltimore, argued Tuesday before a circuit court judge ...Read more

As an IT guy, my workday alternates between tasks like going out and fixing people’s computer issues or setting up new computers and sitting at my desk waiting for the next call.

I’d like my boss to think I spend 80% of my day away from my desk, but in reality I spend a lot of my time sitting at my desk working on my computer.

A lot of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The end of a 20-year mining moratorium in the Superior National Forest marked the culmination of a months-long fight on Capitol Hill between environmentalists, tribal leaders and a lobbying shop friendly with the president.

Political momentum shifted toward pro-mining interests earlier this year behind a concerted lobbying push, ...Read more

Building on its growing Chicago quantum footprint, IBM is planning to open a FutureNow delivery center at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, with a commitment to create 750 new full-time technology jobs on the city’s South Side.

The center, one of a handful scattered across North America, will serve as an IBM innovation hub to ...Read more

Central Florida got served up a pair of sonic booms as SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time since 2024.

After scrubbing an attempt Monday because of weather, the heavy-lift rocket that is essentially three Falcon 9 boosters strapped together, shot off Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 10:13 a.m. on the ViaSat-3 ...Read more

There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies – everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, electric vehicles and defense systems – depend on critical minerals. But many of the communities where those minerals are mined end up with ...Read more