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FILE - Firefighters are silhouetted amid an operation to control the Sandy Fire, May 19, 2026, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman, File)

Wildfires are making the US smoggy again, reversing progress on cleaner air, study finds

11:01 AM on Thursday, June 4

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog

Drake University student Harrison Ziegler holds a bottle as he collects a water sample Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Takeaways from how water pollution in Iowa can deflate summer fun

6:02 AM on Thursday, June 4

Iowa’s waterways face significant pollution challenges due to agricultural runoff and sewage

Hannah Ray J Childs kayaks at a whitewater park she helped create on the Maquoketa River Thursday, May 7, 2026, in Manchester, Iowa. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

In Iowa, water pollution is a health threat that also disrupts summer fun

6:01 AM on Thursday, June 4

Iowa’s waterways face significant pollution challenges due to agricultural runoff and sewage

Helio Lands Fifth Lunar Mission as NASA Artemis Contract Expands Growing Lunar Portfolio

4:00 AM on Thursday, June 4

FILE - An adult New World screwworm fly sits in this undated photo. (Denise Bonilla/U.S. Department of Agriculture via AP)

Screwworm fly detected in Texas decades after cattle threat was largely eradicated in US

5:31 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas

María Inés Barría, a virologist at the Universidad San Sebastián, works at the university, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Tools to fight hantavirus show promise despite limited funding. Now researchers hope to continue

3:30 PM on Wednesday, June 3

There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship

FILE - Beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 9, 2023. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canadian government endorses a plan to move whales from shuttered Marineland park to US and Spain

2:51 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The Canadian government has endorsed a plan to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park and zoo in Ontario to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain

FILE - This image provided by NASA shows the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on Nov. 30, 2025. (NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory), J. DePasquale (STScI) via AP, File)

Radio scans find no alien tech from the latest interstellar comet

1:03 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear

FILE - A hive of honeybees on display at the Vermont Beekeeping Supply booth at the annual Vermont Farm Show at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction, Vt., Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File)

A diet of royal jelly isn't the only thing that makes a queen bee

8:00 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen’s home within the hive

This image provided by NASA shows four-in-one photos of Mars taken by NASA's Maven spacecraft that's been orbiting the red planet since 2014? Maven is no more, NASA just declared it dead. (NASA via AP)

NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead after six months of silence

7:48 AM on Wednesday, June 3

NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence

FILE - Meta's Stanton Springs Data Center is visible Jan. 13, 2026, in Newton County, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

7:00 AM on Wednesday, June 3

According to a United Nations University report, the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries

In this 2018 image provided by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a buoy used to gather data floats in the Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight off the coast of North Carolina. (Darlene Trew Crist/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution via AP)

Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts

4:37 PM on Tuesday, June 2

The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation

FILE - This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows Mpox virus particles, orange, found within infected cells, green. (NIAID via AP, File)

2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US and lying to authorities

4:28 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators

Cover, 'Bunny, The Hidden Record: The First Empty Throne,' available now from Velinwood Publishing.

7:50 AM on Tuesday, June 2

FILE - A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and key launch pad parts

7:46 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin says last week's rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and some other critical parts of the launch pad

FILE - An offshore wind farm is visible from the beach in Hartlepool, England, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

The UK government has set a target of an 87% cut in carbon emissions by 2042

6:25 AM on Tuesday, June 2

The British government is sticking to its net-zero goal despite global conflicts affecting energy supplies

Archaeological workers wearing hard hats dig 4 meters (13 feet) underground during excavations outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

AP exclusive: Under Notre Dame cathedral, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

9:04 PM on Monday, June 1

Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago

This image taken from video shows a view from a car dashcam when a meteor produced two loud booms over Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, May 30, 2026. (Stanley Fung via AP)

Meteor as heavy as an elephant causes widespread speculation across New England

5:21 PM on Monday, June 1

NASA says a fireball as heavy as an elephant caused the double boom that rang out over New England

A Sublette Herd pronghorn sizes up an intruder in its habitat within the confines of Jonah Energy's Normally Pressured Lance gas field on Aug. 10, 2023, in Sublette County, Wyo. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile via AP)

Wyoming’s ‘Path of the Pronghorn’ is a signature away from protections sought for a quarter century

10:56 AM on Monday, June 1

Wyoming is close to designating a migration corridor for pronghorn, a move conservation biologist Joel Berger has long supported

A crested Ibis marked with painted wings flies as it was released into wild during an event in Hakui, Japan, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (Kazushi Kurihara/Kyodo News via AP)

8 crested ibises released in Japanese town decades after extinction in Japan

10:48 PM on Sunday, May 31

Eight crested ibises have been released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after going extinct in the country

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