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May 15, 2026 — As the global climate shifts toward an El Niño pattern, sea surface temperatures in the Pacific are warming — just as the Eastern Pacific hurricane season officially begins. That combination sets the...
A judge on Wednesday allowed Alaska wildlife authorities to resume shooting black and brown bears — including from helicopters — as part of a state plan intended to help recover the Mulchatna caribou herd. Superior...
A tiny mountain lion cub, nicknamed Crimson, was discovered alone in the Santa Monica Mountains at roughly three weeks old and has been transported to the Oakland Zoo for rehabilitation and care.
Max Darrow reports from San Francisco: coastal waters off California have smashed heat records for 38 days so far this year, and scientists warn the warm spell could last for months and spark a stormy, dangerous summer.
Federal crews have begun excavating a long-buried Cold War nuclear waste site in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, ending decades of legal battles, health concerns and public pressure.
On the west bank of the Monongahela River, North America’s largest coke plant towers over neighborhoods about a mile from Clairton Elementary School. The plant’s operations release hazardous pollutants into nearby...
For decades the waters off Cape Town around Seal Island were world‑renowned for great white sharks. Photographers, researchers and cage‑diving operators regularly recorded hundreds of individuals each season; dramatic...
Along South Africa's coastline, several great white shark carcasses have been found washed ashore with their massive livers removed. Locals, fishermen and marine scientists are alarmed; the missing organs suggest human...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has reclassified the emperor penguin from near threatened to endangered, saying climate change and shrinking sea ice have pushed the Antarctic icon closer to...
A juvenile crocodile was spotted in a creek near Newcastle, Australia — roughly 1,200 miles south of the country's tropical crocodile range — after a 12-year-old boy and his friends saw the animal Saturday afternoon....
Tonight, Americans racing to take advantage of clean energy tax credits face a shrinking window: incentives for home solar and other technologies expire at the end of the year. CBS reporter Nikole Killion says some...
Each autumn, millions of monarch butterflies make a long, multigenerational trek to central Mexico. Until recently scientists studied that journey mainly by counting large groups and mapping overwintering sites. Now...
