Three million gallons of acidic mine drainage flooded into the Animas River basin 10 years ago, turning the southern Colorado river a mustard yellow and making international headlines.

Caused by federal contractors working to treat pollution from the Gold King Mine, the accidental release of water laden with heavy metals prompted the creation ...Read more

SpaceX remains on track to surpass 100 launches on the Space Coast for 2025, knocking out No. 70 on Sunday morning with four months to go.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-14 mission with 28 satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:49 a.m.

The first-stage booster made its 23rd flight with a ...Read more

CANTUA CREEK, Calif. — The fallowed farmland — too dry, salty and barren to grow crops — stretches across a remote, sunbaked expanse crisscrossed by rutted dirt roads.

Soon, roughly 15 square miles of these retired agricultural fields in western Fresno County will hold one of the world's largest solar and battery energy storage projects ...Read more

Suyun Ham can’t take his eyes off a scanner. "Lower the sensors a little bit more," Ham urges an assistant. Then a barrage of data floods in, filling computer screens for a diagnosis.

But Ham isn’t a medical doctor. Nor is his “patient” a living creature. An engineering professor from the University of Texas at Arlington, he is ...Read more

Georgia agriculture officials are warning farmers to be on the lookout for an invasive pest that is spreading rapidly in the state, posing a threat to cotton and other major crops.

The two-spot cotton leafhopper (Amrasca biguttula), more commonly known as the cotton jassid, is a tiny insect native to the Indian subcontinent, according to the ...Read more

Six orphaned gray foxes were found and cared for at the Wildlife Care Center in Saratoga for the last four months before being released back into the wild at Alum Rock Park in San Jose on Aug. 20.

Gray foxes are native to the Bay Area with a “pretty established” population, said Ashley Kinney, wildlife rehabilitation department manager for...Read more

LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — With its luxury vacation homes dotted through alpine forests, its tens of thousands of tourists, and its huge concentration of the species Ursus americanus — has long been at the center of California's human-bear conflicts.

Bears stroll out of the woods and across crowded beaches to snatch food from coolers. They sneak...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Connecticut Forest and Park Association’s Master Woodland Manager program is returning for its fifth year this fall with a record-breaking 75 students despite having half the budget it started with last year.

To kick off the fifth year anniversary of the program, CFPA will host a cohort launch at Sessions Woods ...Read more

The final section of what scientists and engineers say will be the largest and most powerful pulsed, superconducting magnet in the world has been completed at the Poway campus of San Diego-based General Atomics.

The 270,000-pound module is poised for shipment to France where it will join six other identical sections at the ITER project — an ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — At its peak concentration levels, the air wafting through the Tijuana River Valley contains thousands of times the typical rate of hydrogen sulfide found in an urban neighborhood, a new study in the journal Science has found.

The familiar, rotten-egg stench of the toxic gas has long been linked to headaches, nausea, difficulty ...Read more

New research backs up the concerns of people who live near the Tijuana River and have long complained that foul air wafting from the polluted waterway is making them sick — irritating their eyes and noses, making breathing difficult and causing headaches. The study indicates they’re being exposed to high levels of the toxic gas hydrogen ...Read more

Adam Raine, a California teenager, used ChatGPT to find answers about everything from his schoolwork to his interests in music, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Japanese comics.

But his conversations with a chatbot took a disturbing turn when the 16-year-old sought information from ChatGPT about ways to take his own life before he died by suicide in ...Read more

Santa Ana, California-based entrepreneur Charlie Chang spent years posting finance videos on YouTube before he made a profit.

Today, Chang's media business oversees more than 50 YouTube channels, along with other digital sites, and generates $3 million to $4 million in annual revenue, he said.

But lately, he's been faced with a new concern: ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is home to 50 different species of snakes — including seven species of rattlesnakes, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

If that makes your skin crawl, you’re not alone. Many people are “somewhat fearful” of snakes and reptiles in general, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

“...Read more

Across the country, state leaders are racing to fast-track wind and solar projects before the expiration of federal tax credits to support clean energy.

Colorado is directing state agencies to prioritize permits for projects that might qualify for the credits. Maine regulators are moving up timelines to purchase new power, hoping to give ...Read more

DENVER — The toxic gas eyed as a possible culprit in the deaths of six dairy workers in Weld County last week is an infrequent but potentially dangerous feature of this type of agricultural work, while experts say the number of victims has little precedent in modern American history.

First responders reported the fatalities at the Prospect ...Read more

The Trump administration on Wednesday took formal steps to rescind a decades-old rule that protects 58.5 million acres of wild areas in national forests, including 4.4 million acres in California.

United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the agency will publish a notice of intent in the Federal Register on Friday to...Read more

More than 350 frogs made the leap back into the Southern California wilderness this month, part of an effort from the Birch Aquarium and other regional partners to reintroduce an endangered species to its home waters.

The mountain yellow-legged frogs — most of which were raised at the Birch Aquarium over the last year — were released at ...Read more

Many of the collared wolves roaming Colorado shifted east over the last month, according to a new map of their locations released Wednesday.

To the northwest, wolves that were present last month in central Moffat and Rio Blanco counties moved east, as did wolves to the south that were roaming northeast of Durango, according to the monthly map ...Read more