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Watershed Alliance of Southwest Washington kicks off film series on environment

January 17, 2024, 5:55am Clark County Life

The Watershed Alliance of Southwest Washington is kicking off its 14th annual free film series this month in Vancouver. Read story

This photo provided by researchers shows a mountain where fossils of Gigantopithcus blacki were found in caves in the Guangxi region of southern China. The extinct species of great ape that once stood around 10 feet tall and weighed up to 650 pounds was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes, scientists in China and Australia report on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 in the journal Nature.

Climate change drove giant ape into extinction

This photo provided by researchers shows a mountain where fossils of Gigantopithcus blacki were found in caves in the Guangxi region of southern China. The extinct species of great ape that once stood around 10 feet tall and weighed up to 650 pounds was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes, scientists in China and Australia report on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 in the journal Nature.

January 16, 2024, 6:03am Life

An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, scientists reported Wednesday. Read story

This LIDAR image provided by researchers in January 2024 shows a main street crossing an urban area, creating an axis along which complexes of rectangular platforms are arranged around low squares at the Copueno site, Upano Valley in Ecuador. Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago, according to a paper published Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in the journal Science.

Lost cities discovered in Amazon

This LIDAR image provided by researchers in January 2024 shows a main street crossing an urban area, creating an axis along which complexes of rectangular platforms are arranged around low squares at the Copueno site, Upano Valley in Ecuador. Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago, according to a paper published Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in the journal Science.

January 16, 2024, 6:02am Life

Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. Read story

A Grizzly bear mother and her cub walk near Pelican Creek Oct. 8, 2012, in the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

Were California’s grizzlies really ravenous meat eaters? Not so much, new report shows

A Grizzly bear mother and her cub walk near Pelican Creek Oct. 8, 2012, in the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

January 15, 2024, 6:00am Life

Forget what you were taught in elementary school about the supposed ravenous meat-eating grizzly bear: New research has found that California’s extinct bear was actually more of a vegetarian. Read story

A thick mat of sargassum seaweed washed ashore in August on Miami Beach, part of a record volume seen over the summer on South Florida beaches.

Ideas for Florida’s stinky seaweed to be put to test

A thick mat of sargassum seaweed washed ashore in August on Miami Beach, part of a record volume seen over the summer on South Florida beaches.

January 13, 2024, 6:04am Life

Seaweed poses all sorts of problems when it piles up on South Florida beaches. It stinks, spoils the view and makes swimming icky. It’s also pricey to haul off to the landfill, which currently is the only viable disposal option. Read story

People look at the Supernal S-A2 passenger electric VOTL aircraft at the Supernal booth Wednesday. Supernal is a part of the Hyundai Motor Group.

Tech innovations that caught our eye at CES 2024

People look at the Supernal S-A2 passenger electric VOTL aircraft at the Supernal booth Wednesday. Supernal is a part of the Hyundai Motor Group.

January 13, 2024, 6:04am Nation & World

From electric cars to transparent TVs to the latest accessibility tech and virtual assistants backed by artificial intelligence, there was a wide range of innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this week. The best of it aimed to solve big real-world problems. Some of it… Read story

Baby chimpanzee Maisie, left, sleeps as her friend Lola, right, tries to wake her at the Maryland Zoo.

Remembrances of apes past: Researchers find chimpanzees and bonobos can recognize long-lost friends

Baby chimpanzee Maisie, left, sleeps as her friend Lola, right, tries to wake her at the Maryland Zoo.

January 12, 2024, 6:03am Life

Not long ago, comparative psychologist Christopher Krupenye and a colleague visited the Leipzig Zoo in Germany, where both had worked on a research project several years before. Read story

Naixin Qian, a Columbia physical chemist, places a sample containing nanoplastics, microscopic plastic pieces, under a microscope in New York on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. A new study found the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope.

Scientists find about a quarter-million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water

Naixin Qian, a Columbia physical chemist, places a sample containing nanoplastics, microscopic plastic pieces, under a microscope in New York on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. A new study found the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope.

January 9, 2024, 5:37pm Life

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Read story

A full moon is seen behind the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for launch, at Launch Complex 39B at NASA&rsquo;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. On Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, NASA said astronauts will have to wait until 2025 before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it.

More delays for NASA’s astronaut moonshots

A full moon is seen behind the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for launch, at Launch Complex 39B at NASA&rsquo;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. On Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, NASA said astronauts will have to wait until 2025 before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it.

January 9, 2024, 5:14pm Nation & World

Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and at least two years before landing on it, under the latest round of delays announced by NASA on Tuesday. Read story

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR INTEL - Intel debuts the latest AI PCs powered by the Intel Core Ultra mobile processor family &ndash; with partners including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI at Intel&rsquo;s Open House at the Consumer Electronic Show on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024 in Las Vegas.

CES 2024 updates: The most interesting news and gadgets from tech’s big show

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR INTEL - Intel debuts the latest AI PCs powered by the Intel Core Ultra mobile processor family &ndash; with partners including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI at Intel&rsquo;s Open House at the Consumer Electronic Show on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024 in Las Vegas.

January 9, 2024, 7:58am Business

CES 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas this week. The multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association is set to feature swaths of the latest advances and gadgets across personal tech, transportation, health care, sustainability and more — with burgeoning uses of artificial intelligence almost everywhere you… Read story