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The San Andreas fault has gone ominously silent. Scientists fear when it finally snaps
LOS ANGELES -- It lurks ominously beneath California’s many natural wonders, a reminder that nothing in this landscape is truly permanent.
It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,” the source ...Read more
How climate change could redraw California's wine map
It was Labor Day 2017, and the remote thermometer at McIntyre Estate Vineyard in Monterey County’s Santa Lucia Highlands was registering a noontime temperature Steve McIntyre couldn’t quite believe: 104 degrees.
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Today's Word "laconic"
laconic \luh-KON-ik\ (adjective) - Sparing with words, concise, terse.
"Lana's laconic way of speaking was completely at odds with her wordy, rambling prose style."
From Latin Laconicus, from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon,...Read more
This Day in History, July 24
On July 24th, 1847, Brigham Young and 148 Mormon pioneers arrived in Salt Lake Valley.
Motherly Love
Black as night I can be,
Until my Mother sits on me;
Then clear as ice I become
In the rough, thank you Mum.
What am I?
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Bertha weakens to tropical depression hours after 2nd landfall, NHC says
Tropical Storm Bertha made its second landfall in two days after skirting Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and coming ashore near the border with Texas on Thursday, then weakened to a tropical depression, according to the National...Read more
OpenAI models break out of test environment, hack company to steal answers
An autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI models escaped a testing environment designed to isolate it from the internet and hacked another company’s systems to steal answers to a cybersecurity test, an “unprecedented”...Read more
The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century, but keeps stripping away protections
President Donald Trump signed proclamations on July 13, 2026, cutting the size of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by roughly 90% – meaning nearly 3 million acres will lose ...Read more
California dodges a bullet on Colorado River cuts
California and two other states have avoided the harshest water cutbacks the Trump administration could have imposed over the next two years to deal with the deepening crisis on the Colorado River.
The Los Angeles Times ...Read more
Are spotted lanternflies on the decline in Maryland? Scientists can't agree.
Spotted lanternflies, the pest that has infested Maryland for 8 years, are shifting their populations across the state as increased predators, effective management techniques and community reporting play a role in the bug�...Read more
Is recent rain enough to get rid of North Carolina's drought?
The Triangle is no longer in exceptional drought, the worst of the drought categories, after recent storms and rain brought some relief to dry conditions throughout the state.
Overall, just 2% of the state is now in ...Read more
Tropical Storm Bertha makes 2nd landfall on Gulf Coast, NHC says
Tropical Storm Bertha made its second landfall in two days after skirting Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and coming ashore near the border with Texas on Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The system made its ...Read more
SpaceX updates Starship progress in Florida ahead of next Texas launch
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is set for its next Starship and Super Heavy test mission from Texas now set for Friday because of poor weather Thursday from Tropical Storm Bertha. It’s the next step on Elon Musk’s company’...Read more
Coral rescue efforts ramp up in Miami as researchers fear another deadly hot year
MIAMI — As underwater temperatures continue to soar in South Florida, the coral shuffle has begun.
Scientists are eyeing any coral that isn’t tied down and making plans to move them somewhere safe: to deeper waters, ...Read more
Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors
Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors whose pirated books it used to train its AI in the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history.
Federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in Oakland, California, granted final ...Read more
Tropical Storm Bertha nears 2nd landfall targeting Texas, NHC says
Tropical Storm Bertha continued to skirt Louisiana’s Gulf Coast on Thursday expected to keep its strength until making what would be its second landfall moving into Texas later in the day, according to the National ...Read more
Officials confirm 6 Kentucky tornadoes, straight-line wind damage from severe storm
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Storm damage from six tornadoes and straight-line winds was found in several Kentucky communities during National Weather Service surveys on Wednesday.
NWS surveyors confirmed the tornadoes were on the ...Read more
Tropical Storm Bertha hugs Louisiana coast, targets Texas, NHC says
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Bertha continued to skirt Louisiana’s Gulf Coast on Thursday expected to keep its strength until moving into Texas later in the day, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The ...Read more
New Fort Lauderdale plant will turn yellow drinking water clear. But experts say old pipes may discolor it again
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fort Lauderdale officials say all that yellow water flowing from the tap will disappear when the city’s pricey new water plant is fully operational later this year.
That claim is being met with...Read more
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