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Austin Peay, Central Arkansas to kick off college football season
The Austin Peay Governors will take on the Central Arkansas Bears in the first game of the 2020 college football season when the FCS squads kick off at 9 p.m....
Tropical Storm Laura: Mass power outages in Louisiana and Texas; 6 dead
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without electricity in Louisiana and Texas on Thursday and at least six people died after Hurricane Laura arrived on land as a...
Will Hurricane Laura evacuations trigger a coronavirus surge?
More than 580,000 along the Gulf Coast were told to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Laura. Will evacuees spread COVID-19?
Deadly reality of COVID-19 pandemic clashes with RNC rhetoric
U.S. battle against COVID-19 lags that of all other big wealthy nations, with more than 40,000 new cases and nearly 1,000 deaths per day
NBA players agree to resume postseason after protest stoppage
NBA players on Thursday met and agreed to resume the playoffs after six teams refused to play Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., in response to the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake.
Weather aids firefighters in containment as California wildfires reach 1.35M acres
Wildfires in California have burned more than 1.35 million acres as of Thursday as fire officials said crews have been able to increase containment rates.
New $300-a-week unemployment benefits coming soon, California officials say
Millions of Californians who are out of work during the COVID-19 pandemic will soon receive a $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit starting retroactive to Aug. 1, state officials said Monday.
What’s behind August 2020’s extreme weather? Climate change and bad luck
August 2020 has been a devastating month across large swaths of the United States: As powerful Hurricane Laura barreled into the U.S. Gulf Coast on August 27, fires continued to blaze in...
NAS Oceana Air Show to be broadcast online
The annual air show at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia will be a virtual event this year, officials announced Thursday.
Tropical Storm Laura: Mass power outages in Louisiana and Texas; 4 dead
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without electricity in Louisiana and Texas on Thursday and at least four people died after Hurricane Laura arrived on land as a...
Misconceptions about weather and seasonality impact COVID-19 response
Misconceptions about the way climate and weather impact exposure and transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, create false confidence and have adversely shaped risk perceptions, say researchers.
Stop! Grand theft water
Researchers have developed a new method to better understand the drivers of water theft, a significant worldwide phenomenon, and deterrents to help protect this essential resource.
NASA's Terra Satellite reveals burn scars from California's two largest fires
On Aug. 26, 2020, NASA's Terra satellite was able to image the two areas in California where the fires have been most active and using the false color reflectance bands on the...
A nighttime view of Tropical Storm Hernan from a NASA-NOAA satellite
Nighttime imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite revealed the Eastern Pacific Ocean's Tropical Storm Hernan along the coast of western Mexico. By the weekend, Hernan is expected to absorb nearby...
Land use change leads to increased flooding in Indonesia
While high greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss are often associated with rapid land-use change in Indonesia, impacts on local water cycles have been largely overlooked. Researchers now show that...
The Le Teil earthquake provides new insights on seismic risk in France and Western Europe
On 11 November 2019, a magnitude 5 earthquake occurred near the village of Le Teil in the Rhône River Valley in southern France producing an unexpected surface rupture with ground...
Australia offering paid position to 'live in paradise on a tropical island'
Conservation officials in Australia announced they are seeking someone to take a full-time job living on a tropical island surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef.
Watch: 'Poop-soaked phone' rescued from national forest toilet
Sanitation workers cleaning out a vault toilet in the Flathead National Forest in Montana said they found a "poop-soaked phone" at the bottom of the toilet tank and were shocked...
How aerial firefighters battle blazes from the skies
An Erickson Aero Tanker aircraft, left, dropping fire retardant. (Shelby Snow /)The most dramatic way to fight a fire is from the sky.An air tanker may fly about 150 feet off the...
How sticklebacks dominate perch
A research project on algal blooms along the Swedish coast, caused by eutrophication, revealed that large predators such as perch and pike are also necessary to restrict these blooms. Ecologists...
Using the past to maintain future biodiversity
New research shows that safeguarding species and ecosystems and the benefits they provide for society against future climatic change requires effective solutions which can only be formulated from reliable forecasts.
Our energy hunger is tethered to our economic past: study
Just as a living organism continually needs food to maintain itself, an economy consumes energy to do work and keep things going. That consumption comes with the cost of greenhouse...
Criminal recycling scams 'profit from plastic waste surge'
Criminal networks are profiting from an "overwhelming" surge in plastic waste being shipped from rich countries to Asia and stoking pollution by burning and dumping waste that was supposed to...
Land use change leads to increased flooding in Indonesia, study shows
While high greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss are often associated with rapid land-use change in Indonesia, impacts on local water cycles have been largely overlooked. Researchers from the University...
Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change
Strategies for 21st-century environmental management and conservation under global change require a strong understanding of the biological mechanisms that mediate responses to climate- and human-driven change to successfully mitigate range...
Dolphin die-offs on the rise in Mauritius following oil spill
Dead dolphins are washing onshore in Mauritius following a massive oil spill involving a Japanese-owned ship in July.
The Le Teil earthquake provides new insights on seismic risk in France and Western Europe
On 11 November 2019, a magnitude 5 earthquake occurred near the village of Le Teil in the Rhône River Valley in southern France, producing an unexpected surface rupture with ground...
Hurricane Laura: Mass power outages in Louisiana and Texas; at least 3 dead
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses are without electricity in Louisiana and Texas Thursday and at least three people are dead after Hurricane Laura arrived on land as a...