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FILE - Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary speaks during a news conference at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FDA's new expert panels are rife with financial conflicts and fringe views

8:09 AM on Monday, August 18

A series of panels convened by the Food and Drug Administration is raising concerns that the agency is skirting federal rules and promoting fringe views about antidepressants and other products

Crew members work on the Pond A2W site of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, Thursday, July 24, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Coastal communities restoring marshes, dunes, reefs to protect against rising seas and storm surges

8:01 AM on Sunday, August 17

Coastal communities nationwide are ramping up efforts to restore and protect their shorelines as climate change causes more intense and destructive storms and leads to sea-level rise that puts tens of millions of people at risk

FILE - Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, near Boulder City, Nev. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, file)

Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will again get less Colorado River water in 2026

1:03 PM on Friday, August 15

Federal officials say Arizona, Nevada and Mexico must again live with less Colorado River water as drought lingers in the West

Stone Age humans were picky about which rocks they used for making tools, study finds

1:01 PM on Friday, August 15

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously thought

Deer hunter discovers rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin

10:21 AM on Friday, August 15

A deer hunter has discovered a rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin

FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy," is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus, file)

Ethiopian fossil Lucy leaves for her first exhibition in Europe

6:06 AM on Friday, August 15

The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum

Scientists discover an ancient whale with a Pokémon face and a predator bite

10:48 PM on Thursday, August 14

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach

FILE - In this May 25, 2016, file photo, the work day begins early for oyster harvesters in the Florida panhandle's Apalachicola Bay. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

Florida wildlife officials consider reopening bay nationally known for its oysters

2:44 PM on Thursday, August 14

Florida wildlife officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting, five years after the waters were closed due to dwindling shellfish populations

FILE - The Statue of Liberty is visible through haze due to Canadian wildfire smoke during sunset Aug. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

As Canada wildfires choke US with smoke, Republicans demand action. But not on climate change

8:26 AM on Thursday, August 14

Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for not preventing and containing wildfires, whose smoke has fouled the air in several states this year

This photo provided by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources shows a deceased Eastern cottontail rabbit infected with Shope papillomavirus in October 2021. (Dr. Rachel Ruden/Iowa Department of Natural Resources via AP)

Rabbits with 'horns' in Colorado are being called 'Frankenstein bunnies.' Here's why

5:24 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Some cottontail rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, have been drawing attention because they have wart-like growths on their faces that look like horns

FILE - Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki near the Rano Raraku volcano, top, on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Nov. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Rising seas could put Easter Island's moai at risk by 2080, study warns

2:49 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century

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