Jul 26 WATCH: Whistleblower tells Congress the U.S. is concealing 'multi-decade' program that captures UFOs By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press The U.S. is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects, a former Air Force intelligence officer testified Wednesday to Congress. The Pentagon has denied his claims. Continue reading
Jul 25 Climate change influencing July heat waves in Europe, China and America, study says By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Climate change's sweaty fingerprints are all over the July heat waves gripping much of the globe. Continue reading
Jul 22 Watch 2:12 News Wrap: Earth sees hottest July ever recorded in human history In our news wrap Saturday, scientists say the first two weeks of July were the planet’s hottest on human record as intense heat waves grip places around the globe, Ukraine says its drones hit an ammunition depot in Crimea after… Continue watching
Jul 22 Summer of record-breaking heat paints story of a warming world, scientists say By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press With a summer of extreme weather records dominating the news, meteorologists and scientists say records like these give a glimpse of the big picture: a warming planet caused by climate change. Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch 6:33 Shark tracking efforts ramped up after wave of encounters off Northeastern coast By Miles O'Brien, Murrey Jacobson, Courtney Norris After a recent spate of shark encounters, New York State is ramping up efforts to monitor the apex predator off the coast of Long Island. It comes as experts in Massachusetts are raising awareness about the surging population of great… Continue watching
Jul 20 Solar panels built over water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren't they widespread? By Brittany Peterson, Sibi Arasu, Associated Press In arid locations, besides the clean electricity, there is the added benefit of reducing evaporation. But the technology has been slow to take off. Continue reading
Jul 19 'In the blink of an eye, we lost so much.' Worst wildfire season in Canadian history wreaking havoc on Indigenous communities By Tammy Webber, Noah Berger, Associated Press In Canada, 5 percent of the population identifies as Indigenous, but more than 42 percent of wildfire evacuations have been from communities that are more than half Indigenous. Continue reading
Jul 18 Warming planet may have overwhelming impact on infectious diseases By Zoya Teirstein, Grist Diseases old and new are becoming more prevalent and even cropping up in places they’ve never been found before. Continue reading
Jul 18 Fossil of ancient mammal attacking dinosaur challenges old theories By Maddie Burakoff, Associated Press Even though the mammal is much smaller, researchers think it was attacking the dinosaur when they both got caught in the volcanic flow. Continue reading
Jul 17 Watch 8:06 Deadly flooding hits Northeast as heat wave tightens grip on western and southern U.S. By Geoff Bennett, Eliot Barnhart, Nana Adwoa Antwi-Boasiako The nation remains at the mercy of nature, but nature is showing no mercy with 100 degree heat stretching from the far West across the Deep South. It comes as a weekend deluge in the Northeast washed out roads and… Continue watching