SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. — In far Northern California, beneath a towering mountain ridge still covered in April snow, one of the state's last cowboys stood in the tall green grass of a pasture he tends describing what he sees as the one blight on this otherwise perfect landscape: wolves.

"I hate 'em," said Joel Torres, 25, his easy smile ...Read more

It’s Earth Day on Tuesday. But for the first time in four years, California’s environmental groups and state agencies are playing defense.

After working closely with President Biden, who supported spending billions for renewable energy, established new national monuments and filled his administration with conservation leaders, California ...Read more

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas.

In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for research and to collect a dinosaur bone belonging to Alamosaurus, according to an April 8 news release from the university.

The geology students ...Read more

ALAMEDA, Calif. — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences.

The whale marks the fourth gray whale to wash up in San Francisco Bay this year. It comes less than two weeks after four whales washed up in the San Francisco Bay in a ...Read more

An early Monday morning launch was the first of two on the Space Coast with planned booster landings that could bring sonic booms to Central Florida.

First up was a Falcon 9 on the CRS-32 resupply mission to the International Space Station that launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A at 4:15 a.m.

The first-stage booster made its ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin have announced their intent to reconsider dozens of current regulations in an effort to loosen standards originally imposed to protect the environment and public health. But it’s not as simple as Trump and Zeldin just saying so.

A few of the changes,...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — For years, this lot just south of the West Oakland BART station has sat vacant, surrounded by RVs and broken-down vehicles.

This was supposed to be housing — a 222-unit tower with 16 apartments set aside for low-income renters. But soon after Oakland’s planning commission signed off on the project, the decision was ...Read more

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook.

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, was recently sentenced to four months in custody and 180 days of home confinement for trafficking six of the young primates, according to the ...Read more

Black bears are expanding their territory in Michigan's Lower Peninsula and as they roam about, state officials say the best way for residents and bears to both stay safe is to ensure they can't find a reliable snack in their human neighbor's backyard.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said while bears have long been a fact of life ...Read more

A city worker recently spotted a mountain lion in a part of Texas where there’s never been a confirmed sighting, according to officials.

The employee, a member of the city’s trail crew, was at Purgatory Creek Natural Area on the morning of Thursday, April 17, when they saw a mountain lion climb down from a tree and sprint away, the City of ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself off the coast of Emeryville April 8. Scientists had thought she seemed healthy, but after an examination, they determined she was acting abnormally and had to be euthanized due to illness.

It was the...Read more

The Las Vegas-based company that would operate the future Las Vegas Spaceport west of the city is offering wealthy customers a chance to own their own military-grade personal satellite.

United Spaceports Corp., the corporate entity that owns the Las Vegas Spaceport, has begun sales of the Black Star 1000 advanced military private satellite for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shooting stars will usher in Earth Day starting late Monday night as the Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak — and Californians will have some of the best views in the country.

The annual meteor shower event will be most visible in April and is named after the constellation Lyra, the harp, located near the point in the sky ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court in March 2025 ended a decade-old lawsuit filed by a group of children who sought to hold the federal government responsible for some of the consequences of climate change. But just two months earlier, the justices allowed a similar suit from the city and county of Honolulu, Hawaii, to continue against oil and gas ...Read more

Jabaar Edmond has long advocated for better air quality in his Childs Park neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida.

For decades, residents of the predominantly Black neighborhood complained of a persistent gasolinelike odor.

“We had an initiative called ‘Smell something, say something,’” said Edmond, former president of the ...Read more

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating a faraway world could be home to alien life.

A team at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy made the discovery while studying the atmosphere of K2-18 b, a planet orbiting a dwarf star in the constellation Leo, about...Read more

Aix Marseille University’s “Safe Place for Science” program, which aims to attract top U.S. graduates, claims it’s received nearly 300 applications from scholars “wishing to pursue their research in complete freedom.”

University President Eric Berton said Thursday the school proposed a bill this week requesting “scientific refugee...Read more

The colossal squid, the world's largest squid species, was caught on video for the first time swimming in its natural habitat, according to a California ocean research organization.

This squid, as its name suggests, can grow to as much as 23 feet in length and 1,100 pounds — the heaviest invertebrate in the world — according to the Schmidt ...Read more

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 meet their needs.

In an April 9, 2025, statement, Trump claimed he could alter government regulations on his own, ...Read more

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, right? But if there’s one thing that can bring us together, it’s that mosquitoes suck,” said Brian Brannon, a ...Read more