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Xerente Indigenous people, part of a fire brigade formed by women, ignite fires as part of a controlled burn with dry palm leaves during a fire prevention operation along Brazil's environmental protection agency, IBAMA, at the Xerente territory, near Tocantinia, Tocantins state, Brazil, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In Brazil’s Cerrado region, Indigenous fire practices reshape wildfire strategy

8:34 AM on Sunday, June 7

Brazilian environmental officials have followed a zero-fire strategy for land management in the Cerrado savanna in central and northern Brazil

In this June 6, 2026 photo released by Taipei City Zoo, a male red panda, part of a pair received from China, in the first such exchange in more than a decade, looks up in an enclosure at the Taipei City Zoo in Taiwan. (Taipei City Zoo via AP)

Taipei Zoo welcomes a pair of red pandas from China, first in over a decade

5:56 AM on Saturday, June 6

A zoo in Taiwan's capital has received a pair of endangered red pandas from China

A worker mows the grass at Toronto Stadium, Thursday June 4, 2026, in Toronto, in preparation for World Cup soccer tournament. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

The World Cup pitches are the result of years of engineering to find just the right grass

1:04 AM on Saturday, June 6

The World Cup fields cover so much ground they’ll be hard to ignore

An official with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension works at the State Operations Center during Texas' response to the New World Screwworm in Austin, Texas on Friday, June 5, 2026. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Texas governor wants to speed up work on a fly-breeding factory to fight a cattle parasite

5:21 PM on Friday, June 5

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is concerned that a new factory isn’t expected to start work for more than a year on mitigating the New World screwworm fly infestation in his state

FILE - This photo provided by Roscosmos shows the International Space Station from a Russian Soyuz MS-19 spaceship after undocking on March 30, 2022. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP, File)

Astronauts briefly take shelter during repair to fix leak on the International Space Station

11:22 AM on Friday, June 5

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have briefly taken shelter during a repair to fix a new leak

FILE - Firefighters are silhouetted amid an operation to control the Sandy Fire, May 19, 2026, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman, File)

Wildfires are making the US smoggy again, reversing progress on cleaner air, study finds

2:01 PM on Thursday, June 4

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog

Drake University student Harrison Ziegler holds a bottle as he collects a water sample Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Takeaways from how water pollution in Iowa can deflate summer fun

9:02 AM on Thursday, June 4

Iowa’s waterways face significant pollution challenges due to agricultural runoff and sewage

Hannah Ray J Childs kayaks at a whitewater park she helped create on the Maquoketa River Thursday, May 7, 2026, in Manchester, Iowa. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

In Iowa, water pollution is a health threat that also disrupts summer fun

9:01 AM on Thursday, June 4

Iowa’s waterways face significant pollution challenges due to agricultural runoff and sewage

Helio Lands Fifth Lunar Mission as NASA Artemis Contract Expands Growing Lunar Portfolio

7:00 AM on Thursday, June 4

FILE - An adult New World screwworm fly sits in this undated photo. (Denise Bonilla/U.S. Department of Agriculture via AP)

Screwworm fly detected in Texas decades after cattle threat was largely eradicated in US

8:31 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas

María Inés Barría, a virologist at the Universidad San Sebastián, works at the university, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Tools to fight hantavirus show promise despite limited funding. Now researchers hope to continue

6:30 PM on Wednesday, June 3

There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship

FILE - Beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 9, 2023. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canadian government endorses a plan to move whales from shuttered Marineland park to US and Spain

5:51 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The Canadian government has endorsed a plan to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park and zoo in Ontario to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain

FILE - This image provided by NASA shows the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on Nov. 30, 2025. (NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory), J. DePasquale (STScI) via AP, File)

Radio scans find no alien tech from the latest interstellar comet

4:03 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear

FILE - A hive of honeybees on display at the Vermont Beekeeping Supply booth at the annual Vermont Farm Show at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction, Vt., Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File)

A diet of royal jelly isn't the only thing that makes a queen bee

11:00 AM on Wednesday, June 3

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen’s home within the hive

This image provided by NASA shows four-in-one photos of Mars taken by NASA's Maven spacecraft that's been orbiting the red planet since 2014? Maven is no more, NASA just declared it dead. (NASA via AP)

NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead after six months of silence

10:48 AM on Wednesday, June 3

NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence

FILE - Meta's Stanton Springs Data Center is visible Jan. 13, 2026, in Newton County, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

10:00 AM on Wednesday, June 3

According to a United Nations University report, the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries

In this 2018 image provided by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a buoy used to gather data floats in the Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight off the coast of North Carolina. (Darlene Trew Crist/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution via AP)

Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts

7:37 PM on Tuesday, June 2

The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation

FILE - This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows Mpox virus particles, orange, found within infected cells, green. (NIAID via AP, File)

2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US and lying to authorities

7:28 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators

Cover, 'Bunny, The Hidden Record: The First Empty Throne,' available now from Velinwood Publishing.

10:50 AM on Tuesday, June 2

FILE - A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and key launch pad parts

10:46 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin says last week's rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and some other critical parts of the launch pad

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