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FILE - Headlights from morning commuters can be seen through blowing snow as they make their way along Highway 441, on Jan. 28, 2019, in Appleton, Wis. Anyone who has ever been temporarily blinded by high-beam headlights from an oncoming car will be happy to hear this. U.S. regulators are about to allow new high-tech headlights that can automatically tailor beams so they focus on dark areas of the road and don't create glare for oncoming drivers.

U.S. OKs headlights that won’t blind oncoming drivers

FILE - Headlights from morning commuters can be seen through blowing snow as they make their way along Highway 441, on Jan. 28, 2019, in Appleton, Wis. Anyone who has ever been temporarily blinded by high-beam headlights from an oncoming car will be happy to hear this. U.S. regulators are about to allow new high-tech headlights that can automatically tailor beams so they focus on dark areas of the road and don't create glare for oncoming drivers.

February 16, 2022, 6:01am Life

Anyone who has ever been temporarily blinded by high-beam headlights from an oncoming car will be happy to hear this. Read story

High tide laps against the sea wall at The Battery in Charleston, S.C., in November 2020.

Report raises alarm on sea level rise

High tide laps against the sea wall at The Battery in Charleston, S.C., in November 2020.

February 15, 2022, 6:22pm Life

America’s coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report warns. Read story

FILE - Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Musk has tweeted his way into trouble with another federal agency, this time the National Labor Relations Board. SpaceX's Elon Musk said Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship -- the world's most powerful rocket ever built could come in another month or two.

SpaceX’s Elon Musk: 1st orbital Starship flight maybe March

FILE - Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Musk has tweeted his way into trouble with another federal agency, this time the National Labor Relations Board. SpaceX's Elon Musk said Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship -- the world's most powerful rocket ever built could come in another month or two.

February 11, 2022, 8:00am Life

SpaceX’s Elon Musk said Thursday that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship — the world’s most powerful rocket ever built — could come in another month or two. Read story

FILE - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.,Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. The rocket is carrying a batch of Starlink satellites. Spacex's newest fleet of Starlink satellites are tumbling out of orbit because of a geomagnetic storm. In an online update Tuesday, Feb. 8, Elon Musk's company reported that up to 40 of the 49 small Internet-service satellites launched last Thursday have either re-entered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so.

SpaceX satellites falling out of orbit after solar storm

FILE - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.,Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. The rocket is carrying a batch of Starlink satellites. Spacex's newest fleet of Starlink satellites are tumbling out of orbit because of a geomagnetic storm. In an online update Tuesday, Feb. 8, Elon Musk's company reported that up to 40 of the 49 small Internet-service satellites launched last Thursday have either re-entered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so.

February 9, 2022, 11:20am Nation & World

SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar storm. Read story

Ed Stewart uses a brush and a vacuum to clean the hatch of the Apollo 16 lunar spacecraft at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. Following a break in routine maintenance because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum is sprucing up the antique spaceship before events marking the 50th anniversary of its flight in 1972.

Workers clean Apollo 16 spaceship ahead of 50th anniversary

Ed Stewart uses a brush and a vacuum to clean the hatch of the Apollo 16 lunar spacecraft at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. Following a break in routine maintenance because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum is sprucing up the antique spaceship before events marking the 50th anniversary of its flight in 1972.

February 9, 2022, 8:29am Nation & World

The Apollo 16 capsule is dusty all these decades after it carried three astronauts to the moon. Cobwebs cling to the spacecraft. Business cards, a pencil, money, a spoon and even a tube of lip balm litter the floor of the giant case that protects the space antique in a… Read story

A dead Hawksbill sea turtle found on a beach is shown after a necropsy along with the trash, mostly plastic, removed from its stomach on Feb. 1 at the Al Hefaiyah Conservation Center lab, in Kalba, United Arab Emirates.

Plastic pollution in oceans on track to rise for years, review says

A dead Hawksbill sea turtle found on a beach is shown after a necropsy along with the trash, mostly plastic, removed from its stomach on Feb. 1 at the Al Hefaiyah Conservation Center lab, in Kalba, United Arab Emirates.

February 8, 2022, 6:36pm Life

Plastic pollution at sea is reaching worrying levels and will continue to grow even if significant action is taken now to stop such waste from reaching the world’s oceans, according to a review of hundreds of academic studies. Read story

A rescued Green sea turtle swims in a pond at the Khor Kalba Conservation Reserve in the city of Kalba, on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. A staggering 75% of all dead green turtles and 57% of all loggerhead turtles in Sharjah had eaten marine debris, including plastic bags, bottle caps, rope and fishing nets, a new study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. The study seeks to document the damage and danger of the throwaway plastic that has surged in use around the world and in the UAE, along with other marine debris.

Turtles dying from eating trash show plastics scourge in UAE

A rescued Green sea turtle swims in a pond at the Khor Kalba Conservation Reserve in the city of Kalba, on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. A staggering 75% of all dead green turtles and 57% of all loggerhead turtles in Sharjah had eaten marine debris, including plastic bags, bottle caps, rope and fishing nets, a new study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. The study seeks to document the damage and danger of the throwaway plastic that has surged in use around the world and in the UAE, along with other marine debris.

February 8, 2022, 8:24am Life

KALBA, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The hawksbill sea turtle lay belly-up on the metal autopsy table, its shell ashen and stomach taut. Read story

In this photo taken June 1, 2019, by Patrick Donnelly of the Center for Biological Diversity is the rare desert wildflower Tiehm's buckwheat in the Silver Peak Range about 120 miles south of Reno, Nev. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating the high-desert range halfway between Reno and Las Vegas as critical habitat for the Tiehm's buckwheat. It is also the site of a proposed lithium mine by the Australian-based Ioneer USA Corp.

U.S. backs rare flower habitat amid Nevada lithium mine fight

In this photo taken June 1, 2019, by Patrick Donnelly of the Center for Biological Diversity is the rare desert wildflower Tiehm's buckwheat in the Silver Peak Range about 120 miles south of Reno, Nev. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating the high-desert range halfway between Reno and Las Vegas as critical habitat for the Tiehm's buckwheat. It is also the site of a proposed lithium mine by the Australian-based Ioneer USA Corp.

February 4, 2022, 8:43am Life

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada wildflower it plans to list as endangered amid a conflict over a mine to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles critical to the Biden administration’s plans to combat climate change. Read story

Market squid at NOAA Fisheries Little Port Walter Research Station, Southeast Alaska.

Ocean heat waves trigger ‘squid bloom’ along Pacific coast, scientists say

Market squid at NOAA Fisheries Little Port Walter Research Station, Southeast Alaska.

February 3, 2022, 8:10am Latest News

Marine heat waves driven by climate change have fueled a dramatic increase in market squid along the Washington and Oregon coast over the past two decades, new research shows. Read story

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a thunderstorm complex which was found to contain the longest single flash that covered a horizontal distance on record, at around 768 kilometers (477 miles) across parts of the southern United States on April 29, 2020. Two stormy parts of the Americas set records for longest lightning flashes back in 2020, the World Meteorological Organization said Monday, Jan. 31, 2022.

Longest lightning bolt record: 477 miles over 3 states

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a thunderstorm complex which was found to contain the longest single flash that covered a horizontal distance on record, at around 768 kilometers (477 miles) across parts of the southern United States on April 29, 2020. Two stormy parts of the Americas set records for longest lightning flashes back in 2020, the World Meteorological Organization said Monday, Jan. 31, 2022.

February 1, 2022, 8:30am Life

A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash. Read story