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Yellow jackets swarm after North Carolina floods, ...
Flooding in North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Helene has stirred up yellow jacket colonies. Health officials said ...
October heat wave sets dozens of records in Califo...
More than 50 new heat records were set on Wednesday, as an October heat wave continues to bake California and Arizona.
Helene rainfall boosted by human-driven climate ch...
Two rapid-attribution studies released Tuesday found that human-caused global warming made Hurricane Helene stronger and...
Record heat makes for a sweltering start to Octobe...
The start of October is bringing little relief to parts of the western United States, where 36 million people are under ...
Drone footage of gray whales offers new insight in...
Drone footage of gray whales off the Oregon coast has revealed new details about how the marine mammals find food. The f...
As extreme weather forecasts get better, warnings ...
Before Hurricane Helene began ravaging swaths of the southeastern U.S., Amanda Wright had expected a little rain and may...
FAA grounds SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after a malfu...
SpaceX must investigate why part of its Falcon 9 rocket malfunctioned after launching NASA astronauts on Saturday, the F...
Why Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, is grow...
Scientists say Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, is still growing thanks in part to the merger of two river syste...
The science behind how a Florida hurricane ravaged...
The devastation in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene is the result of a combination of factors related to climat...
Key revelations emerge in Coast Guard's Titan subm...
Two weeks of public testimony concluded Friday in the U.S. Coast Guard's investigation to establish what caused the Tita...
SpaceX launched to space to bring back stranded as...
Today SpaceX launched a rocket to the International Space Station on a mission to bring two stranded astronauts back to ...
SpaceX to launch capsule that will bring two stran...
SpaceX is set to launch two crew members to the space station in a capsule that will eventually bring home the NASA astr...
Two failing dams in North Carolina force urgent ev...
Two major dams in North Carolina were at risk or in the process of failing, forcing evacuations after Hurricane Helene i...
A day after a once-in-a-thousand-year rainstorm, s...
A rainstorm expected only once every 1,000 years deluged parts of southern Appalachia on Wednesday night, with as much a...
6-year-old kidnapped 73 years ago from California ...
A boy kidnapped more than seven decades ago from a California park was found alive and well as a senior citizen, reunite...
An asteroid will soon enter Earth's orbit as a tem...
A school-bus-sized asteroid is expected to spend about two months orbiting Earth as a "mini moon" as it gets temporarily...
California sues ExxonMobil, alleging a 'campaign o...
California’s attorney general has sued ExxonMobil, alleging a “campaign of deception” to convince consumers that recycli...
Octopuses seen hunting together with fish in rare ...
Some members of an octopus species hunt cooperatively in groups with fish, a new study found — an indication that some o...
A summer marked by extreme, record-setting heat in...
A summer marked by record-setting heat — particularly in Arizona — has ended. Phoenix notched a record 113 consecutive d...
New research finds Van Gogh's ‘Starry Night’ skies...
A new study found that the skies in Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” align with current models of atmospheric turbulence. NBC N...