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August Complex Fire becomes largest wildfire in California history
The 471,185-acre August Complex Fire has become the largest wildfire fire in California's history.
High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context
Scientists have compiled a continuous, high-fidelity record of variations in Earth's climate extending 66 million years into the past. The record reveals four distinctive climate states, which the researchers dubbed...
Hulu to stream David Tennant-Michael Sheen comedy 'Staged' in U.S.
Hulu has picked up the U.S. rights to David Tennant and Michael Sheen's British quarantine comedy, "Staged."
Dietary changes could produce big offsets to carbon emissions
Eating less meat and dairy products in favor of plant-based proteins like those found in grains, legumes and nuts could make a huge difference in how much carbon dioxide reaches...
ABC announces fall debut dates for comedies
ABC said new seasons of family sitcoms "The Goldbergs," "The Conners" and "black-ish" are scheduled to debut Oct. 21.
Opinion: With the eerie skies of climate change amid a pandemic, we're in a 'Twilight Zone' scenario of our own making
That strange, colored light is thickened by the true illness around us, a pandemic that limits our activities.
Tropical Storm Rene maintains strength in Central Atlantic
Tropical Storm Rene was downgraded to a tropical depression on Tuesday, after producing strong winds and heavy rains in the Cabo Verde Islands.
Two $50,000 Powerball tickets sold within 10 miles of each other
Lottery officials in South Carolina said one county experienced unusual luck when two $50,000 Powerball tickets were sold just 10 miles apart.
Q&A: La Nina may bring more Atlantic storms, western drought
La Nina—which often means a busier Atlantic hurricane season, a drier Southwest and perhaps a more fire-prone California—has popped up in the Pacific Ocean.
Watch: Fisherman catches 2,645 fish in 24 hours for Guinness record
A professional fisherman in Illinois unofficially broke his own Guinness World Record when he caught 2,645 fish in a single 24-hour period.
Study finds humans are behind costly, increasing risk of wildfire to millions of homes
People are starting almost all the wildfires that threaten U.S. homes, according to an innovative new analysis combining housing and wildfire data. Through activities like debris burning, equipment use and...
Loss of sea otters accelerating the effects of climate change
The impacts of predator loss and climate change are combining to devastate living reefs that have defined Alaskan kelp forests for centuries, according to new research.
States sue EPA over pollution in Chesapeake Bay
The attorneys general of three mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., on Thursday sued the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of failing to protect the Chesapeake Bay.
State issues largest COVID-19 safety fine to Overhill Farms in Vernon
Cal/OSHA has proposed penalties of $222,075 for Overhill Farms and $214,080 for its temporary employment agency, Jobsource North America.
NASA finds Tropical Storm Rene less affected by wind shear
NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of Tropical Storm Rene is it continued moving north though the central North Atlantic Ocean. Rene appeared more organized on satellite imagery as wind...
NASA's Terra highlights aerosols from western fires in danger zone
The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just added to the year's woes. So far in 2020, California has experienced 7,606...
$500 billion question: What's the value of studying the ocean's biological carbon pump?
A new study puts an economic value on the benefit of research to improve knowledge of the biological carbon pump and reduce the uncertainty of ocean carbon sequestration estimates.
$500 billion question: What's the value of studying the ocean's biological carbon pump?
The ocean plays an invaluable role in capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, taking in somewhere between five to 12 gigatons (billion tons) annually. Due to limited research, scientists...
Rebirth of a volcano
Continued volcanic activity after the collapse of a volcano has not been documented in detail so far. Now and for the first time, researchers are presenting the results of a...
Starz orders 'Blindspotting' series from Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal
Starz announced on Thursday that it has ordered a spinoff television series based on 2018 film "Blindspotting," which starred Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.
Response to Comment on "No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium"
Robock claims that our analysis fails to acknowledge that pan-tropical surface cooling caused by large volcanic eruptions may mask El Niño warming at our central Pacific site, potentially obscuring a...
An astronomically dated record of Earths climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years
Much of our understanding of Earth’s past climate comes from the measurement of oxygen and carbon isotope variations in deep-sea benthic foraminifera. Yet, long intervals in existing records lack the...
Long-term forest degradation surpasses deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Although deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon are well known, the extent of the area affected by forest degradation is a notable data gap, with implications for conservation biology, carbon...
Keystone predators govern the pathway and pace of climate impacts in a subarctic marine ecosystem
Predator loss and climate change are hallmarks of the Anthropocene yet their interactive effects are largely unknown. Here, we show that massive calcareous reefs, built slowly by the alga Clathromorphum...
Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures
Human activity causes vibrations that propagate into the ground as high-frequency seismic waves. Measures to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused widespread changes in human activity, leading to...
Comment on "No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium"
Dee et al. (Reports, 27 March 2020, p. 1477) claimed that large volcanic eruptions do not produce a detectable El Niño response. However, they come to the wrong conclusion because...
High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context
For the first time, climate scientists have compiled a continuous, high-fidelity record of variations in Earth's climate extending 66 million years into the past. The record reveals four distinctive climate...
Loss of sea otters accelerating the effects of climate change
The impacts of predator loss and climate change are combining to devastate living reefs that have defined Alaskan kelp forests for centuries, according to new research published in Science.