Federal, state and local agencies are racing to determine the cause of the spill, which is at least 13 square miles in size.
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Children born after 2020 will experience up to 7 times more extreme climate events
Heat waves will be the most prevalent extreme climate event.
Birds thrived where humans feared to tread during the pandemic, scientists say
A new study published Wednesday suggests the pandemic has allowed many bird species to stretch their wings.
Media fascination with the Petito mystery looks like racism to some Native Americans
Since the year 2000, Indigenous people have made up 21% of homicides in Wyoming, even though only 3% of the population is Indigenous.
COVID vaccine for kids ages 5 To 11 is safe and effective, Pfizer says
News of the results come as pediatric cases of COVID-19 are increasing amid a nationwide surge of infections.
Experts advising FDA vote against Pfizer COVID booster
Presentations generally showed the vaccine was still effective in protecting immunized people against severe illness, hospitalization and death in the U.S.
NASA is launching a new telescope that could offer some cosmic eye candy
The new telescope, the largest and most powerful ever put into space, will travel to a lonely spot 1 million miles from Earth, where it will be able to peer out into the farthest reaches of the universe.
The federal government sells flood-prone homes to often unsuspecting buyers, NPR Finds
Many buyers of HUD homes don’t learn that their houses are in an official flood zone until after they’ve made an offer. That is too late in the process for many families.
Scientists say they could bring back woolly mammoths. But maybe they shouldn’t
A company called Colossal is proposing would actually be a hybrid created using a gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 to splice bits of DNA recovered from frozen mammoth specimens into that of an Asian elephant, the mammoth’s closest living relative.
It was the deadliest year ever for land and environmental activists
The number of such deaths last year was more than double the figure in 2013.