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Mount St. Helens rises above Spirit Lake in this aerial view taken on Tuesday.

Volcano work still a blast despite COVID

Mount St. Helens rises above Spirit Lake in this aerial view taken on Tuesday.

May 16, 2021, 6:05am Clark County News

USGS’ Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver continues, adapts its mission during pandemic Read story

Geophysicist Rebecca Kramer charges batteries for high-precision GPS equipment at USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver late last month. Staff was packing up monitoring gear being shipped to be used in studies of the volcanic system at Yellowstone National Park.

USGS monitors Yellowstone volcano system from Vancouver

Geophysicist Rebecca Kramer charges batteries for high-precision GPS equipment at USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver late last month. Staff was packing up monitoring gear being shipped to be used in studies of the volcanic system at Yellowstone National Park.

May 11, 2021, 6:03am Clark County News

As Rebecca Kramer geared up for a summer project to monitor Yellowstone’s volcano system, she was doing prep work in an east Vancouver parking lot. Read story

Ryan Williams, with the Utah Drivers License Division, displayes his cell phone with the pilot version of the state's mobile ID on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in West Valley City, Utah. The card that millions of people use to prove their identity to everyone from police officers to liquor store owners may soon be a thing of the past as a growing number of states develop digital driver's licenses. In Utah, over 100 people have a pilot version of the state's mobile ID, and that number is expected to grow to 10,000 by year's end. Widespread production is expected to begin at the start of 2022.

More states move to digital IDs

Ryan Williams, with the Utah Drivers License Division, displayes his cell phone with the pilot version of the state's mobile ID on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in West Valley City, Utah. The card that millions of people use to prove their identity to everyone from police officers to liquor store owners may soon be a thing of the past as a growing number of states develop digital driver's licenses. In Utah, over 100 people have a pilot version of the state's mobile ID, and that number is expected to grow to 10,000 by year's end. Widespread production is expected to begin at the start of 2022.

May 8, 2021, 8:51pm Business

The card that millions of people use to prove their identity to everyone from police officers to liquor store owners may soon be a thing of the past as a growing number of states develop digital driver’s licenses. Read story

EXPLAINER: What are cicadas and why do they bug some people?

May 7, 2021, 11:52am Life

Cicadas, red-eyed bugs singing loud sci-fi sounding songs, can seem downright creepy. Especially since the trillions of them coming this year emerge from underground only every 17 years. Read story

This combination of satellite images provided by the Kayrros data analytics company shows methane plumes, captured using specialized sensors overlaid on optical photos, rising from natural gas sites in Aliso Canyon north of Los Angeles on Oct. 26, 2015, left, and the Permian Basin in Texas on Nov. 8, 2020. According to a United Nations report released on Thursday, May 6, 2021, cutting the super-potent greenhouse gas methane quickly and dramatically is the world's best hope to slow and limit the worst of global warming.

U.N.: Cutting methane quickly key to curbing dangerous warming

This combination of satellite images provided by the Kayrros data analytics company shows methane plumes, captured using specialized sensors overlaid on optical photos, rising from natural gas sites in Aliso Canyon north of Los Angeles on Oct. 26, 2015, left, and the Permian Basin in Texas on Nov. 8, 2020. According to a United Nations report released on Thursday, May 6, 2021, cutting the super-potent greenhouse gas methane quickly and dramatically is the world's best hope to slow and limit the worst of global warming.

May 6, 2021, 3:47pm Life

Cutting the super-potent greenhouse gas methane quickly and dramatically is the world’s best hope to slow and limit the worst of global warming, a new United Nations report says. Read story

FILE - In this May 5, 1961 file photo, astronaut Alan Shepard sits in his capsule at Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital space flight, making Shepard the first American in space.

60 years after 1st American in space, Tourists lining up

FILE - In this May 5, 1961 file photo, astronaut Alan Shepard sits in his capsule at Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital space flight, making Shepard the first American in space.

May 5, 2021, 6:53pm Nation & World

Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps. Read story

This September 2017 photo shows the Klinaklini glacier in British Columbia, Canada. The glacier and the adjacent icefield lost about 15 gigatons of water from 2000-2019, Menounos says. And the rate of loss accelerated over the last five years of the study.

A chilling trend: Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever

This September 2017 photo shows the Klinaklini glacier in British Columbia, Canada. The glacier and the adjacent icefield lost about 15 gigatons of water from 2000-2019, Menounos says. And the rate of loss accelerated over the last five years of the study.

May 4, 2021, 6:05am Life

Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31 percent more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers. Read story

Male, top, and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen through a microscope at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 14, 2019.

Modified mosquitoes released in Fla.

Male, top, and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen through a microscope at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 14, 2019.

May 4, 2021, 6:02am Life

A controversial project to release genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys to battle the disease-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes started last week. Boxes filled with eggs, water and food are being placed in the Lower and Middle Keys. Read story

A herd of bison stand in a pen on the Fort Peck Reservation near Poplar, Mont., in 2012.

Lawmakers seek help on Montana bison

A herd of bison stand in a pen on the Fort Peck Reservation near Poplar, Mont., in 2012.

May 4, 2021, 6:02am Life

Native American lawmakers in Montana called on the Biden administration to help craft a plan to reintroduce wild bison to the landscape in and around Glacier National Park and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Read story

Florida dethroned as U.S. lightning capital

May 4, 2021, 6:02am Life

In a shocking new study Florida was dethroned as the lightning capital of the country, moving over for Oklahoma. Read story