SEATTLE — Wild orcas on more than 30 occasions in four oceans have attempted to share their prey with people, potentially to develop relationships with humans, researchers have found.

In each of the instances recorded over two decades, orcas approached a person within a length of the orca’s body, and dropped freshly hunted prey in front of ...Read more

The largest group of American Flamingos seen in Florida in more than a decade was recorded late last week.

Mark Ian Cook, a wildlife and scientific photographer, posted on Facebook that he saw a group of 115 flamingos along the coastline of Florida Bay in the Everglades on Friday.

Cook was taking part in an aerial bird survey via helicopter ...Read more

McDONOUGH — It only took Ed Albin a few steps Sunday to spot it as he wandered onto an empty construction site in Henry County about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta.

“Oh my God,” he said, crouching down to take a look at his find, “Oh my God.”

Perched on the dirt like it just fell from the sky isn’t just any old rock. It’s a ...Read more

The formerly endangered peregrine falcon produced a bumper crop of at least 23 juveniles this year in the Pittsburgh region.

That's a lot of young birds that will add to an already busy landscape with more peregrine nests than volunteer monitors can confirm.

Now is when raptor juveniles take to the Pittsburgh skies to learn to fly and hunt, ...Read more

Lifting up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you’re getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a few thousand pollinators.

The unit — dubbed a BeeHome — is an industrial upgrade from the standard wooden beehives, all clad in white metal and solar panels. Inside sits a high-tech scanner and robotic arm powered ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Deadlocked for months in tense, closed-door meetings, Colorado River states may be one step closer to an agreement.

Representatives from each of the seven Western states have agreed to discuss a new path forward — one that could more firmly ground Colorado River policy in hydrological reality as snowpack fails to deliver, ...Read more

For a U.S. citizen arriving in Atlanta these days, there’s a world in which you might not even need to pull out your passport.

The process of a Customs and Border Protection officer manually reviewing American passports at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has been replaced with tablets that capture a passenger’s image and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge has upheld a ruling directing OpenAI to preserve logs and data slated for deletion after news outlets including the Daily News suing the technology giant accused the company of hiding evidence of copyright infringement.

The new ruling, issued Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, denied the company’s objection to ...Read more

Two years after Nvidia Corp. made history by becoming the first chipmaker to achieve a $1 trillion market capitalization, an even more remarkable milestone is within its grasp: becoming the first company to reach $4 trillion.

After the emergence of China’s DeepSeek sent the stock plunging earlier this year and stoked concerns that outlays on ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Thursday evening to ban oil drilling along the Apalachicola River in northwest Florida, delivering a win for both environmentalists and fishermen who said the ban was essential to protect their way of life.

This spring, state lawmakers of both parties overwhelmingly approved House Bill 1143. The Florida ...Read more

When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the essential ingredient in research is, he responded with one word: “Passion.”

It is passion that keeps scientists going, dead end after dead end, until there is a breakthrough. It is passion that keeps them at the bench or ...Read more

DENVER — A relatively wet spring in Colorado could mean a more severe than usual snake-bite season, but at least half of bites are preventable, one expert said.

Most snake bites in Colorado happen between May and October, after which cold temperatures push rattlesnakes to curl up and reduce their activity, said Dr. Kennon Heard, a professor ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A secret, sweeping five-year probe of the Philadelphia School District’s compliance with federal asbestos regulations entered a new phase Thursday as the school board signed off on a deferred prosecution agreement to avoid criminal charges.

The agreement makes a national example of Philadelphia: it’s the first time ever ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When researchers completed a national study of hazardous forever chemicals recently, they found that a South Carolina river had higher levels of pollution from the toxins than any other waterway they examined across the country.

It was a troubling discovery that potentially threatens public health for those who eat fish from ...Read more

BOSTON — With warm weather here and more people out on the water, great white shark sightings are rising around the region.

There has been an “uptick” in confirmed white shark activity off the Bay State in the last week, including reports of sharks chomping on seals and taking hooked striped bass from fishermen.

Also, sharks were spotted...Read more

DETROIT — Water quality scientists predict the harmful algae bloom on western Lake Erie this year will be relatively mild and less severe than last year.

The bloom will be between mild and moderate levels, the scientists said Thursday. Moderate blooms are more likely to have patches of visible scum.

The bloom will start in early July, peak ...Read more

BOSTON — With warm weather here and more people out on the water, great white shark sightings are rising around the region.

There has been an “uptick” in confirmed white shark activity off the Bay State in the last week, including reports of sharks chomping on seals and taking hooked striped bass from fishermen.

Also, sharks were spotted...Read more

Reports of a fireball falling over the southeastern U.S. flooded social media Thursday afternoon, and the National Weather Service said the unusual object was visible in southern parts of metro Atlanta.

The American Meteor Society has received 100 reports of fireball sightings from across Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee. Most ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Malaysia will ban plastic waste imports from the U.S. starting Tuesday because of America’s failure to abide by the Basel Convention treaty on international waste transfers, in a move that could have significant consequences for California.

Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American ...Read more