As Gov. Gavin Newsom’s climate trip in Brazil continues, reports emerged that the Trump administration plans to allow oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time since the 1980s.

Newsom called the plan “dead on arrival” and denounced the administration’s consistent pursuit of fossil fuels, saying “the polluted ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Information, like water, is in short supply in the Colorado River Basin as seven states blew past the Trump administration’s deadline for an agreement.

Tuesday was Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s major deadline for the states to submit a framework for a consensus-based deal to update the river’s operating guidelines that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration reportedly has plans to open the waters off California’s coast to new oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades, drawing swift condemnation from Gov. Gavin Newsom, lawmakers and environmental groups who say it would be disastrous for the state’s environment, economy and clean energy ...Read more

Democrats need to recast climate change mitigation as an affordability issue, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said during the United Nations climate summit in Brazil on Tuesday.

“It’s about economic power. I think we have to reframe it as a cost of living issue,” he said during a press conference, when asked about how to make climate ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s coming down to the wire for the seven Colorado River states to comply with a federal deadline to submit a plan for how to divvy up the river over the next 20 years.

The contentious, closed-door process has been drawn out over multiple years as the outlook for levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell continue to nosedive. But the...Read more

Gen Z calls itself the climate generation. We post infographics, hop on Lime bikes instead of calling Ubers, offset flights we still take for weekend getaways and stage walkouts with reusable bottles in hand. But somewhere between our climate optimism and the dopamine hit of another endless scroll, we became part of the problem we were left to ...Read more

The government shutdown’s strain on air traffic control has not only led to limitations on airlines, but spaceflight too.

Despite the Federal Aviation Administration having implemented space launch limits commercial launches to fall between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. starting Monday.

That has led to a pivot from SpaceX for several of its planned ...Read more

On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing out its weight, tiny specks of fatty plaque and other features visible even to the naked eye that provide clues to diseases. It is one of about 2,000 human brains to be processed into Pitt's Neurodegenerative Brain Bank, ...Read more

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than flecks of space stuff, they would be satellites on a mission led by UC Berkeley scientists.

This first-of-its-kind unmanned mission — Escape and ...Read more

Blue Origin is set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon.

The heavy-lift rocket is aiming for its second ever liftoff, but was put in a weather hold for most of the launch window that runs from 2:45-4:13 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36.

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Blue Origin was set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon, but a series of issues stymied the attempt.

The heavy-lift rocket was aiming for its second ever liftoff, but was put in a weather hold for most of the launch window that ran from 2:45-4:13 p.m. from Cape Canaveral ...Read more

Blue Origin is set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon.

The heavy-lift rocket is aiming for its second ever liftoff, targeting launch during a window that runs from 2:45-4:13 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36. Propellant load began after 10...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California air officials voted overwhelmingly Friday to give themselves the power to levy fines on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach if they don’t fulfill their promises to transition to cleaner equipment.

The ports remain the largest source of smog-forming pollution in Southern California — releasing more ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Negotiators for seven Western states are under mounting pressure to reach an agreement outlining how they plan to share the Colorado River’s dwindling water.

The Trump administration gave the states a Tuesday deadline to agree on the initial terms of a plan for cutting water use to prevent the river’s reservoirs from ...Read more

A climate champion calling for more oil. A rainforest defender greenlighting a highway through a pristine part of the Amazon. A promoter of a new Brazilian bioeconomy who accommodates the old beef industry.

These are the tensions that will define the climate legacy of Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, host of the COP30 U.N. summit ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — More than a half century after the U.S. ignited 67 atomic weapons in the the central Pacific Ocean, a former Navy base in the Bay Area continues to carry that nuclear legacy.

Last week, residents were informed by the San Francisco Department of Health that a test taken in November 2024 at the former site of Hunters Point ...Read more

James Watson, whose co-discovery of DNA’s structure brought genetics to the forefront of scientific research before his remarks about the intelligence of Black people caused public outrage, has died. He was 97.

He died on Nov. 6 in East Northport on New York’s Long Island, The New York Times reported. Citing his son, Duncan, the Times said ...Read more

DENVER — Another of the wolves released in Colorado earlier this year as part of the state’s reintroduction effort has died, wildlife officials said Friday.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife learned of the death of the female wolf — given the identification number 2506 — when its collar gave a mortality notice on Oct. 30. The wolf died in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 200 nations are gathering this week in Belém, Brazil, to kick off the annual United Nations climate policy summit, but there is one glaring exception: The Trump administration is not sending any high-ranking officials.

California hopes it can fill in the gap. The state, as it usually does, is sending a large delegation ...Read more

With their surgical nibbles, these large, semi-aquatic, buck-toothed rodents have emerged as crucial helpers for ecologists restoring degraded wetlands across the Great Lakes.

They are not the well-known, dam-building beavers but can often be found in the same marshy ecosystems. Muskrats — which are more closely related to voles and hamsters ...Read more