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FILE - Wind turbines are silhouetted against the sky at sunset May 15, 2026, near Cimarron, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Pentagon reviews are blocking wind farms, putting jobs at risk, lawsuit says

5:01 AM on Friday, June 12

A coalition of renewable energy groups is suing Pentagon officials over their failure to complete national security reviews for new onshore wind farms on private lands

People on motorcycles pass by a collapsed structure after an earthquake in General Santos, Philippines on Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo)

Disaster drills helped prevent more deaths when powerful quake hit the southern Philippines

1:46 AM on Friday, June 12

Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives at the Amazon Regional Observatory of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, June 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations

11:13 AM on Thursday, June 11

Brazilian officials have announced a significant drop in deforestation rates

Space Blue Invites NASA credited Hidden Pioneers to Countdown 250 Ball in Celebration of Shared Synergy in Space, Culture, Music, and American Heroes.

10:05 AM on Thursday, June 11

FILE - The operation floor inside the Unit 6 reactor building is pictured during a media tour at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Kariwa Village, Niigata prefecture, Japan on Friday, May 1, 2026. (Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Reactor reboot at world's largest nuclear plant highlights flaws in Japan's radioactive waste plans

8:00 PM on Wednesday, June 10

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan has resumed operations

FILE - People wade through a recreational vehicle park flooded by a king tide on Jan. 3, 2026, near Corte Madera in Marin County, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

Climate change makes once-rare coastal floods more likely, study says

1:28 PM on Wednesday, June 10

New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise

This undated image provided by Peng Zhou shows a Chinese submersible recovering fossilized whale bones from the deep seafloor, southeastern Indian Ocean, in the Diamantina Fracture Zone. (Global TREnD, IDSSE via AP)

An ancient whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean teems with life

10:02 AM on Wednesday, June 10

Scientists have unearthed marine communities thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard

FILE - A cosmic detector is housed underground at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in Kaiping in southern China's Guangdong province, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

An underground detector in China unveils its first major findings about mysterious ghost particles

10:00 AM on Wednesday, June 10

A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings

AbTherx Expands Platform and Leadership Team to Unlock Antibody Discovery for Multispecifics, Enzymes, GPCRs, and Ion Channels

5:00 AM on Wednesday, June 10

This undated photo provided by NASA Tuesday, June 9, 2026, shows the Artemis III crew including, from left, Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio, posing for an official portrait. (Bill Stafford/NASA via AP)

NASA unveils Artemis III astronauts to test technology for a future moon landing

11:45 AM on Tuesday, June 9

NASA has revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in eventually landing astronauts on the moon

‘Rings of Saturn: Enemy Within’ Launches as New Military Sci-Fi Thriller Inspired by UFO Narratives, Space Command Myths, and Deep Space Conflict Themes

6:00 AM on Tuesday, June 9

FILE - Sam Altman arrives at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, file)

OpenAI files confidential SEC paperwork for IPO, opening the door to a Wall Street debut

4:52 PM on Monday, June 8

OpenAI has filed preliminary paperwork to potentially become a publicly traded company

A rancher arrives for a news conference with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins at the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory in Kerrville, Texas, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

A flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new screwworm cases are found

8:58 AM on Monday, June 8

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry

FILE - President Bush, left, shakes hands with Robert Coles, center, a child psychologist, researcher and professor of psychiatry from Cambridge, Mass., as first lady Laura Bush looks on during the National Endowment for the Arts Awards ceremony at Constitution Hall, April 22, 2002, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Psychiatrist Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed needs of children, dies

7:59 PM on Sunday, June 7

Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died

Residents pass by a collapsed structure after an earthquake in General Santos, Philippines on Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo)

A 7.8 magnitude quake in the Philippines kills at least 35, collapses buildings and sparks tsunami

7:13 PM on Sunday, June 7

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least 35 people

Xerente Indigenous people, part of a fire brigade formed by women, ignite fires as part of a controlled burn with dry palm leaves during a fire prevention operation along Brazil's environmental protection agency, IBAMA, at the Xerente territory, near Tocantinia, Tocantins state, Brazil, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In Brazil’s Cerrado region, Indigenous fire practices reshape wildfire strategy

7:34 AM on Sunday, June 7

Brazilian environmental officials have followed a zero-fire strategy for land management in the Cerrado savanna in central and northern Brazil

In this June 6, 2026 photo released by Taipei City Zoo, a male red panda, part of a pair received from China, in the first such exchange in more than a decade, looks up in an enclosure at the Taipei City Zoo in Taiwan. (Taipei City Zoo via AP)

Taipei Zoo welcomes a pair of red pandas from China, first in over a decade

4:56 AM on Saturday, June 6

A zoo in Taiwan's capital has received a pair of endangered red pandas from China

A worker mows the grass at Toronto Stadium, Thursday June 4, 2026, in Toronto, in preparation for World Cup soccer tournament. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

The World Cup pitches are the result of years of engineering to find just the right grass

12:04 AM on Saturday, June 6

The World Cup fields cover so much ground they’ll be hard to ignore

An official with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension works at the State Operations Center during Texas' response to the New World Screwworm in Austin, Texas on Friday, June 5, 2026. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Texas governor wants to speed up work on a fly-breeding factory to fight a cattle parasite

4:21 PM on Friday, June 5

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is concerned that a new factory isn’t expected to start work for more than a year on mitigating the New World screwworm fly infestation in his state

FILE - This photo provided by Roscosmos shows the International Space Station from a Russian Soyuz MS-19 spaceship after undocking on March 30, 2022. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP, File)

Astronauts briefly take shelter during repair to fix leak on the International Space Station

10:22 AM on Friday, June 5

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have briefly taken shelter during a repair to fix a new leak

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