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Subtropical Storm Josephine became a powerful extratropical storm off the U.S. coast Thursday while the National Hurricane Center kept its eye on another system also in the Atlantic.

As of the 5 p.m. NHC advisory, what is...Read more

Plain old water could be responsible for making plastics harmful to people, according to a new study that portends significant consequences for human health.

The study, published Thursday in the prominent scientific ...Read more

PISMO BEACH, Calif. — Pismo Beach is moving forward with an ordinance to prohibit the hanging of dead sharks and other fresh-caught fish from the Pier, among other restrictions on fishing — and more rules may still be ...Read more

The deaths of Canadian geese in South Carolina has prompted an investigation, but people are not suspected as killers. Rather, avian influenza — or bird flu — is suspected, according to the South Carolina Department of...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The string of El Niño-fueled storms that have closed roads, crumbled boardwalks and eroded beaches in Southern California in the summer and fall may have also brought a silver lining: a potential end in ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Josephine continued to surge off the U.S. Atlantic coast while the National Hurricane Center kept its eye on another system.

As of the 11 a.m. NHC advisory, Josephine was located about 200 miles ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida won’t get the next SpaceX Starship launch, but with the first of three launch towers on the Space Coast near completion, Elon Musk expects the company to build up the launch rate quickly.

“We...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A white SUV drives past fields of grapes and nut trees and pulls to a stop on the dirt shoulder across the highway from a strange tableau:

Thousands of burned tree trunks stacked neatly to the end of a ...Read more

Bears are having a very bad year.

Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on. With nearly every station at the buffet in ...Read more

On October 22nd, 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; he turned it down.

Subtropical Storm Josephine formed off the mid-Atlantic coast on Wednesday and is forecast to strengthen but move northeastward away from the United States, the National Hurricane Center said, and a second Atlantic ...Read more

By now, most Northern Californians know that there are historically strong El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean which are increasing the chances for a rough and very wet winter.

But some places have more risk than ...Read more

Oil spills pose a multifaceted threat in the Great Lakes, where oil transit pathways overlap and concentrate in major waterways such as the Straits of Mackinac and St. Clair River, a group of researchers found in a new ...Read more

With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump has officially created the United States’ 64th national park.

Chiricahua, in southeastern Arizona, was established as a national monument in April 1924 to protect...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday continued to keep an eye on a system off the U.S. East Coast with the potential to develop into a more dangerous storm as well as beginning to track a second ...Read more

A Bloomington, Minnesota, startup is testing whether its interactive prescription drug dispenser can help older Minnesotans take their medications on schedule — especially in rural areas that lack pharmacies.

Omcare’s...Read more

Silicon Valley companies may be going all in on artificial intelligence, but Bay Area residents are broadly concerned about the technology — including many of the tech workers riding the wave.

That’s according to a ...Read more