In recent years, we’ve also seen spotted lanternflies and multiple broods of cicadas take up residence where they don’t belong. Could climate change be to blame? Summer has arrived, and if you’re extra worried about spending time outdoors this year, well, we can’t blame you. Between the crushing heat waves already spreading across the U.S. and a...

About a dozen U.S. reactors have closed since 2013, due to competition from natural gas fired power and increases in safety costs. The United States could revive some of its recently retired nuclear power plants to help meet rising demand for zero-emissions electricity, or add reactors to existing sites, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in...

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The CST-100 Starliner, with astronauts Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams aboard, lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Boeing’s new Starliner capsule flew its first crew of astronauts to space on Wednesday from Florida in a much-delayed test mission to the International Space Station, a milestone in the aerospace...

Virginia’s ‘clean cars’ law was initially adopted in 2021, when the state government was under full Democratic control. Governor Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday that Virginia will abandon California’s stringent vehicle emissions rules aimed at reducing carbon pollution at the end of the year when that state’s current regulations expire, citing...

Record daily highs will be in jeopardy from Las Vegas to Phoenix, the National Weather Service said. The first heat wave of the season has arrived earlier than usual across much of the U.S. Southwest, with dangerously hot conditions that produced triple-digit temperatures on Tuesday.