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Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

Students from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, led by ecology professor Brian Pickles, traveled to Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta for a field course in July 2023, according to a Jan. 23 ...Read more

While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried about what could come next.

The potential for rain the weekend of Jan. 25-26 could help tamp down the fires. But rain can also trigger dangerous floods and debris flows on burned hillslopes.

These flows ...Read more

President Donald Trump used his first day in office to slam the brakes on the renewable energy industry, issuing an executive order to temporarily halt federal leasing, permitting and approval of both onshore and offshore wind energy projects.

But a Virginia Beach wind farm already under construction will be spared the immediate effects of the ...Read more

SEATTLE — A conservative think tank filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two Washington state agencies over delays in reporting the state's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Washington Policy Center said in a news release that it filed the lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Ecology and the Department of Commerce to force the agencies...Read more

President Trump on Tuesday announced that OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank are partnering on a venture to direct more than $100 billion toward computing infrastructure that will power artificial intelligence in the United States.

"It will ensure the future of technology," Trump said at a news conference at the White House, where he was joined by ...Read more

Despite San Francisco police repeatedly saying OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s death was a suicide, influential figures on both ends of the political spectrum are spreading questions about foul play, raised by the young man’s grieving family, around the world.

Former Fox News provocateur Tucker Carlson, on his Tuesday podcast, spoke ...Read more

Silicon Valley has come a long way.

In suits and ties on the dais behind President Donald Trump during his inauguration speech Monday — inches from the President’s family — sat Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

It was a ...Read more

Los Angeles is burning, but it isn’t alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and Greece. What wasn’t burned was smoked in.

Is this another case of a future not only dire but strange, without a narrative to join ...Read more

Incarcerated people in Colorado are exposed to climate-related extreme heat and cold, plus flooding and wildfires. Because they’re unable to escape these hazards, their health suffers and some die.

“I remember it being summer, and there’s no way to get away from the sun. And I remember people just burning,” said one formerly ...Read more

After four years of U.S. progress on efforts to deal with climate change under Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is swiftly swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction.

On his first day back, Trump declared a national energy emergency, directing agencies to use any emergency powers available to boost oil and ...Read more

Q. Our granddaughter is 7 and loves listening to music. We are trying to find a way for her to have her own device to play music, but without access to the internet. Is there a device that her parents can load with Taylor Swift and Disney princesses singing? Should we get her a boombox and CDs? How can a kid listen to music in her room without ...Read more

An email from a friend last week led to a lengthy text exchange to help him locate his camera app, which had gone missing from his iPhone.

“Somehow the camera icon fell off my screen. I must have accidentally removed it. Can you tell me how to get my camera back on my iPhone home screen?”

This friend is proficient in using his phone, but...Read more

January's Consumer Electronics Show showcased the latest and greatest in technology and gadgets. This included miles and miles of trade show space that easily allowed you to get your 10,000 steps — I hit over 30,000 on several days. The show listed more than 4,500 exhibitors, more than 141,000 attendees and more than 6,000 media members.

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The creator economy is one of the biggest developments of the digital age.

Over the past decade, advertisers have funneled billions of dollars into paying social media users with large followings to promote anything from beauty products to new albums. Goldman Sachs predicts the sector will be worth nearly half a trillion by 2027.

Atlanta ...Read more

Maxwell Brodie vividly recalls the destructive wildfire he experienced as a kid growing up in the interior of British Columbia.

One night in 2003, lightning struck a tree at around 4 a.m., sparking a massive blaze that scorched Okanagan Mountain Park. Winds picked up, the skies turned orange and more than 30,000 people evacuated from his ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders shortly after his inauguration, including one that rolled back the recent approval of a controversial wind farm in south-central Idaho.

Trump signed a temporary order that prompted an immediate review of federal wind leasing and permitting regulations, and specifically halted any activity...Read more

President Donald Trump targeted California environmental policies with executive orders to revoke the the state’s electric vehicle sales mandate and weaken protections for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, setting the stage for legal battles.

Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned Trump’s flurry of orders to dismantle former President ...Read more

Two years after President Abraham Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture in 1862, he nicknamed it “the people’s department” because half of all Americans lived on farms at that time. Today, fewer than 2% of Americans farm, but the Agriculture Department still touches people’s lives in many ways.

The modern U.S. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Dropping temperatures and the prospect of snow looming in the forecast have Philadelphians crunching through layers of road salt that keep ice and snow from settling on sidewalks and streets.

But what if a sidewalk could melt ice on its own?

That's the goal of a three-year-long project at Drexel University to develop self-...Read more

BALTIMORE — A fifth community solar project has entered Harford County’s development pipeline and is set to add nearly 40 acres to the roughly 61 acres already dedicated to community solar generating systems in Harford County.

Per state law, these systems allow property owners to build solar power systems on their land as long as the ...Read more