Blue, mysterious and arriving by the millions: the alien-like creatures blanketing US beaches

From Oregon to California, blankets of alien-like blue creatures are washing up on rocky beaches. They are Velella velella, tiny colonies of organisms with a…

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Inside the Frozen Zoo, where scientists put disappearing species on ice: ‘It’s banking hope’

In a basement laboratory abutting an 1,800-acre wildlife park in San Diego, California, Marlys Houck looks up to see a uniformed man holding a blue…

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Atmospheric river storms are getting stronger, and deadlier. The race to understand them is on

The storm raged over California for more than five days. As the powerful atmospheric river made landfall, furious winds and torrential downpours ripped trees from…

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Chef Crystal Wahpepah on the power of Indigenous cuisine: ‘Native foods are overlooked’

Out on the sunny patio at Wahpepah’s Kitchen, sizzling plates of bison and deer make their way down a table filled with Native American educators…

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