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LA JOLLA, Calif. — Coral ecologists are taking a page out of the national security playbook: facial recognition technology. Techniques that can pick a terrorist out of a crowd are […]

What’s worse than looking for a needle in a haystack? Trying to find a whale in a sea shrouded in fog or roiled by wind. It’s a daily ordeal for […]

Stargazers from around the world come to Bryce Canyon National Park to experience one of the most spectacular night skies in the United States. To meet demand, rangers offer astronomy […]

HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. — Walking through towering redwoods here in the mountains hugging Northern California’s coast, the average person wouldn’t know they were in the midst of a “working” forest. […]

Calculating how many acres of Amazon forest are cleared each year is relatively easy thanks to satellite imaging. Determining how much carbon is stored in that forest is another matter. […]

Lawmakers have criticized BP PLC for attempting to “muzzle” scientists researching the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with confidentiality agreements and blocking the “open exchange of scientific data and analysis.” […]

Local nonprofit fights to save vanishing rainforest. With only seven percent of the Andean mountain tropical forests left, saving the rainforest is a critical and seemingly futile mission. “It’s not […]

Watering one’s garden with a liquid oxygen nozzle may seem a little strange. A little… unreasonable. Such oddities make perfect sense to engineer Paul T. Breed, who is safely testing […]

I’m crying. Here I was ready to write a column about how pumped I was to do my first mini-triathlon in Solana Beach, and how you, the reader should too. […]