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‘Things are going to get a lot busier near the moon’: Elon Musk rocket crashes as predicted

“There’s no doubt in my mind” that the rocket “is now in teeny, little pieces scattered over the moon,” said astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.

By Marcia Dunn and The Associated PressAugust 5, 2026
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It’s getting too hot to fly: climate‑driven heat waves are forcing airlines to dump passengers and cargo
By Rio Yamat, M.K. Wildeman and The Associated PressAugust 5, 2026
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Leo DiCaprio teams with Jeff and Lauren Sanchez Bezos on $200 million plan to save 100 endangered species
By The Associated PressAugust 5, 2026
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OpenAI’s Greg Brockman gave $5.5 million to protect the home of an internet-famous bald eagle named Jackie
By Sydney LakeAugust 4, 2026
The remains of the German tugboat wreckage marked as UJ-106 in the Danube River.
Danube River’s shrinking water levels expose dozens of World War II ships
By The Associated Press and Marko DrobnjakovicAugust 4, 2026
Firefighters work to extinguish a wildfire.
Europe’s long, hot summer leads to thousands evacuated and fire operators dead
By The Associated Press, Derek Gatopoulos and Sylvie CorbetAugust 4, 2026
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SpaceX created a new class of ultrawealthy. Here’s what comes next
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Why a friendlier robot loses your trust faster when It messes up
By Hasan Ayaz, Ewart J. de Visser, Frank Krueger, Yigit Topoglu and The ConversationAugust 5, 2026
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Is Elon Musk’s master plan with SpaceX to have rockets replace planes for global cargo delivery?
By Euihyeon Choi, Koki Ho and The ConversationAugust 5, 2026
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Iranian hackers and America’s Achilles heel on water: default passwords
By William Akoto and The ConversationAugust 5, 2026
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By Mike Stobbe and The Associated PressAugust 5, 2026
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After months of a public back and forth over Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, Ken Griffin isn’t ready to give up on New York after all
By Joshua HongAugust 5, 2026
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Florida is deploying robot rabbit lures that cost $4,000 apiece in a desperate push to solve the Everglades’ python problem
By Curt Anderson, Cody Jackson and The Associated PressAugust 28, 2025
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    Russia rocked by one of the most powerful earthquakes of the century, sending tsunami warning across Pacific
    By Danica Kirka, Audrey McAvoy and The Associated PressJuly 30, 2025
A german shepherd and a FEMA worker search for damage and victims in the wake of Hurricane Helen. They walk next to a pile of branches and debris.
Environment
Trump critics inside FEMA put on indefinite leave after blasting cuts in dissent letter
By Gabriela Aoun Angueira and The Associated PressAugust 27, 2025
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Environment
‘It’s getting pretty scary’: The Colorado River, 40 million Americans, 7 states and no plan for how to manage inevitable decline
By Dorany Pineda and The Associated PressAugust 27, 2025
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America gripped by towering haboobs as dust storms take Southwest by storm
By The Associated PressAugust 27, 2025
Nicolle Ritchie peels corn facing away from the camera in the midst of a corn field.
Environment
‘Like the corn’s never getting a break. It’s just hot all the time’: How America’s farmers conquered climate change for a ‘monster’ harvest
By Melina Walling, Joshua A. Bickel and The Associated PressAugust 25, 2025
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Environment
It’s so hot in the western U.S. that some people are ‘wobbling’ and collapsing to the ground as they walk outside
By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated PressAugust 24, 2025
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    ‘Everybody’s complaining they ain’t never seen it this hot’: Central and Eastern U.S. suffers through ‘dangerous and prolonged’ heat
    By Russ Bynum, Mike Schneider and The Associated PressJuly 30, 2025
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Climate change means more great white sharks in the waters of New England every summer
By Patrick Whittle and The Associated PressAugust 24, 2025
Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise
Energy
Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise
By Jordan BlumAugust 24, 2025
The rendering of Meta's planned data center complex in Richland Parish shows a massive arrive of facilities to power the AI boom.
Features
Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout
By Delaney NolanAugust 24, 2025
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Calling the Post Office’s switch to EVs a ‘textbook example of waste,’ GOP wants to waste millions of dollars already spent on transition
By Susan Haigh and The Associated PressAugust 18, 2025
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Instead of a $50,000 solar panel on your roof, how about a $2,000 one small enough to fit on your deck? ‘We thought absolutely, let’s do this right away’
By Isabella O'Malley and The Associated PressAugust 15, 2025
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    Finance
    Baker Hughes buys Chart Industries for $13.6 billion in oilfield services deal, outbidding and canceling planned Chart-Flowserve merger
    By Jordan BlumJuly 29, 2025
Oil and fuel prices hang in the balance as Trump and Putin meet to broker peace
Politics
Oil and fuel prices hang in the balance as Trump and Putin meet to broker peace
By Jordan BlumAugust 15, 2025
Dogs
Environment
Your dog is part of the climate change problem: ‘I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore’
By Caleigh Wells and The Associated PressAugust 14, 2025
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Environment
31-year-old New Yorker who found a 2-karat diamond in a volcanic crater is going to wear it for an engagement ring
By The Associated PressAugust 14, 2025
Spain wildfire
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Much of Greece, Spain and Portugal is on fire as Southern Europe braces for wildfire season
By The Associated PressAugust 14, 2025
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Environment
‘I was just dumbfounded’: Trump kicks 15 high school students out of FEMA Youth Preparedness Council
By Gabriela Aoun Angueira and The Associated PressAugust 13, 2025
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Florida allows first black bear hunt in a decade
By Curt Anderson and The Associated PressAugust 13, 2025
James Litinsky, Chairman and CEO, MP Materials
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How deals with Apple and Trump’s Pentagon turned rare earth miner MP Materials into a red-hot stock
By Jordan BlumAugust 12, 2025
Southeast Asia’s cities at ‘high risk’ of flooding and heatwaves, thanks to climate change
Environment
Southeast Asia’s cities at ‘high risk’ of flooding and heatwaves, thanks to climate change
By Lionel LimAugust 11, 2025
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‘Not your grandparents’ summers’: 70 million east coast Americans just had the muggiest June and July in history
By Seth Borenstein, M.K. Wildeman and The Associated PressAugust 10, 2025
President Donald Trump attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15.
Tech
AI’s endless thirst for power is driving a natural gas boom in Appalachia—and industry stocks are booming along with it
By Jordan BlumAugust 9, 2025
Europe heat wave
Environment
July 2025 was the third-hottest ever recorded, EU scientists say
By Paolo Santalucia, Suman Naishadham and The Associated PressAugust 7, 2025
Jellyfish
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‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: Delaware beach-goers swear they feel the jellyfish sting more than ever
By Mingson Lau, Patrick Whittle and The Associated PressAugust 6, 2025
Embattled BP beats on earnings as it touts selling oil, not cups of coffee, as Wall Street pokes fun at its former CEO
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Embattled BP beats on earnings as it touts selling oil, not cups of coffee, as Wall Street pokes fun at its former CEO
By Jordan BlumAugust 5, 2025
As Europe pushes towards its €1.5 trillion renewables target, companies like Ikea look for green power opportunities today 
Economy
As Europe pushes towards its €1.5 trillion renewables target, companies like Ikea look for green power opportunities today 
By Andrew SaundersAugust 5, 2025
“Decarbonization is not just a climate plan, it is an economic strategy.” Why European competitiveness hinges on homegrown power
Economy
“Decarbonization is not just a climate plan, it is an economic strategy.” Why European competitiveness hinges on homegrown power
By Peter VanhamAugust 5, 2025
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Flesh-eating parasite tears through Mexican cattle as Texas braces for ‘devastating pest’
By Fernando Llano, Fabiola Sánchez and The Associated PressAugust 5, 2025
Forced frenemies, Exxon and Chevron take diverging paths as leaders of the booming Permian
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Forced frenemies, Exxon and Chevron take diverging paths as leaders of the booming Permian
By Jordan BlumAugust 1, 2025
A manufacturing engineer prepares a battery storage submodule for lifting at Peak Energy's plant in California.
Features
We’re about to see a $1 trillion ‘supercycle’ of investment in batteries to power the grid for AI
By Jordan BlumAugust 1, 2025
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Kerr County officials reveal they were asleep, out of town during night of catastrophic flood
By Nadia Lathan and The Associated PressJuly 31, 2025
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