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President Donald Trump has said he wants to reverse decades of regulations about energy efficiency in American household appliances, claiming doing so will provide Americans with “freedom to choose” products that ...Read more

On April 17th, 1521, Martin Luther spoke before the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.

Mosquito season has arrived in Southern California. That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to bite.

“There’s not a lot of things that we can all agree on, especially in this day and age, ...Read more

The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed a rule to redefine what it means to “harm” a protected species under the Endangered Species Act, a move conservationists say will strip vulnerable plants and animals of ...Read more

MOSS LANDING — Aboard a quiet, full catamaran, legendary conservationist Jane Goodall spoke to her latest mission: supporting the survival of Monterey Bay’s charming, yet still vulnerable, icon – the sea otter.

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The Tijuana River has been plagued with raw sewage and industrial waste from Tijuana for decades, fouling beaches along the U.S.-Mexico border with polluted water and sending foul odors drifting through communities in San ...Read more

A record-high share of Americans now consider global warming to be a major concern, according to a new poll.

In the latest Gallup survey, 48% of respondents said global warming will pose a “serious threat” to them or ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan House committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would push about $75 million toward a relief fund for northern Michigan to address the effects of the area's historic ice storm in late March....Read more

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life.

But what really happens after the ...Read more

It is getting to be time for gift-giving for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduations. Today I have a few gift ideas that I’ve been trying out for a few weeks and I think they’d make anyone happy.

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During his lifetime, David Packard was a Silicon Valley pioneer, starting one of the nation’s leading tech companies, Hewlett Packard, in his Palo Alto, California, garage with his friend Bill Hewlett and $538, and then ...Read more

Audio streaming platform Spotify was down Wednesday with outages reported around the world.

Thousands reported being unable to access the service around 8 a.m. EST, according to Down Detector.

Users of the app reported ...Read more

How fast is your internet?

For Comcast customers in Philadelphia, the ceiling for speed just got higher.

And it's made possible by what goes on inside a dull-looking Northeast Philadelphia office building where state-of-...Read more

Morningside Park, a beloved neighborhood park in Miami with sweeping views of Biscayne Bay, will soon pilot an innovative approach to coastal resilience.

BIOCAP tiles, a 3D-printed modular system designed to ...Read more

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny, more grassland than ...Read more

The Word Guy Blooper Patrol has plucked the ripest, juiciest mistakes from newspapers and magazines. Can you find the lemons?

1. "Palettes of new furniture were hoisted off trucks." Colorful items, no doubt. 2. "...the ...Read more

This week a reader asks two specific questions about charging batteries.

1. Are faster chargers harder on batteries than slower chargers (for example, is a 20-watt charger harder on a battery than a 12-watt charger)?

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