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Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski speaks in Salt Lake City. A new Associated Press-NORC poll finds that Americans want local officials to do more to battle global warming now that federal officials aren’t. That rings true with Biskupski, who co-chairs two committees of mayors that are fighting climate change. One of her groups has 115 cities committed to the goal of having their cities operating entirely on renewable energy by the year 2035. Salt Lake City is hoping to beat that goal by a few years. “We’re leading the conversation because we have to now,” Biskupski said.

AP-NORC poll: Americans want local leaders to fight warming

Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski speaks in Salt Lake City. A new Associated Press-NORC poll finds that Americans want local officials to do more to battle global warming now that federal officials aren’t. That rings true with Biskupski, who co-chairs two committees of mayors that are fighting climate change. One of her groups has 115 cities committed to the goal of having their cities operating entirely on renewable energy by the year 2035. Salt Lake City is hoping to beat that goal by a few years. “We’re leading the conversation because we have to now,” Biskupski said.

October 2, 2017, 10:00am Nation & World

Americans want their local officials to take on the challenge of battling global warming now that President Donald Trump is withdrawing the nation an international climate change agreement. Read story

BitMitigate founder Nick Lim of Vancouver recently decided to offer cybersecurity services to the website The Daily Stormer after it was dropped by a competitor. He doesn’t make any money from the site, but it has risen his profile.

Firm offers cybersecurity for neo-Nazi site

BitMitigate founder Nick Lim of Vancouver recently decided to offer cybersecurity services to the website The Daily Stormer after it was dropped by a competitor. He doesn’t make any money from the site, but it has risen his profile.

October 2, 2017, 6:05am Business

A neo-Nazi website recently jettisoned from the businesses of some major internet companies has found aid from a Vancouver cybersecurity firm and its 20-year-old founder. Read story

David Limp, senior vice president of Devices and Services at Amazon, smiles as he displays a new Amazon Echo during an event announcing several new Amazon products by the company, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, in Seattle. Amazon says it is cutting the price of its Echo smart speaker, improving the sound quality and upgrading its appearance with six new “shells.” The next generation speaker, which is powered by Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, will have a dedicated woofer and a tweeter for the first time, as well as Dolby sound.

Amazon turns up the volume on Echo

David Limp, senior vice president of Devices and Services at Amazon, smiles as he displays a new Amazon Echo during an event announcing several new Amazon products by the company, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, in Seattle. Amazon says it is cutting the price of its Echo smart speaker, improving the sound quality and upgrading its appearance with six new “shells.” The next generation speaker, which is powered by Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, will have a dedicated woofer and a tweeter for the first time, as well as Dolby sound.

October 2, 2017, 6:00am Business

Amazon will head into the holiday shopping season with a simple wish list: It wants voice-controlled devices featuring its digital assistant Alexa to become as ubiquitous in people’s homes as televisions. Read story

A new Amazon Echo Photos by Elaine Thompson/Associated Press

Tech Test: Could Fabriq’s Chorus be a better way to talk to Alexa?

A new Amazon Echo Photos by Elaine Thompson/Associated Press

October 1, 2017, 6:05am Business

Amazon’s Echo line of products is pretty popular. Read story

A Cook Inlet beluga whale calf, left, and an adult breach in 2009 near Anchorage, Alaska. The state of Alaska and research partners will use grants of more than $1.3 million for three years of studies on why Cook Inlet beluga whales have not recovered.

Failing beluga recovery puzzles

A Cook Inlet beluga whale calf, left, and an adult breach in 2009 near Anchorage, Alaska. The state of Alaska and research partners will use grants of more than $1.3 million for three years of studies on why Cook Inlet beluga whales have not recovered.

September 29, 2017, 6:00am Life

New research aims to find out why highly endangered beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet have failed to recover despite protective measures. Read story

Wild pandas seeing population increase

September 25, 2017, 7:24pm Life

The pandas’ shaggy ranks appear to be swelling deep in the Chinese wilderness. A national survey of the bamboo forests, completed in 2013, reported 1,864 giant pandas. The survey completed a decade before counted fewer than 1,600. Population numbers alone, though, paint an incomplete picture. Read story

Eric Preisz of Graham Software Investments speaks to a crowd Tuesday night during Vancouver Tech Tours, an event that concluded at Columbia Collective. The event aimed to foster the tech community, which some say has been fragmented.

Tech Tours tapping into Vancouver’s ‘hidden’ tech workforce

Eric Preisz of Graham Software Investments speaks to a crowd Tuesday night during Vancouver Tech Tours, an event that concluded at Columbia Collective. The event aimed to foster the tech community, which some say has been fragmented.

September 24, 2017, 6:00am Business

It might have looked a little like speed-dating. Read story

DNA says Viking warrior found in 1889 was female

September 21, 2017, 6:05am Life

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more. Read story

66-million-year-old skull could unlock triceratops’ secrets

September 21, 2017, 6:04am Life

There’s more excitement than usual at Marco’s Pizza in Thornton, Colo., since news spread that a rare dinosaur fossil was unearthed at a nearby construction site. Read story

Rising sea temperatures, along with other factors, cause corals to bleach and die.

240-year-old nautical maps illustrate coral loss

Rising sea temperatures, along with other factors, cause corals to bleach and die.

September 21, 2017, 6:00am Life

Between 1773 and 1775, George Gauld, a surveyor with the British Admiralty, immortalized the coast of the Florida Keys in ink. Though his most pressing goal was to record the depth of the sea — to prevent future shipwrecks — Gauld embraced his naturalist side, too. He sprinkled his maps… Read story