Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities elsewhere.

The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas.

A recent state report found dozens of abandoned vessels littering the waterways of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, some of which have been sitting for decades. These ships can pose serious environme...

After public uproar over the potential end of their 100-year old football rivalry, USC has made an amended offer to Notre Dame.

A bird called the Wilson's phalarope journeys between California's Mono Lake and Argentina. The birds have inspired close connections between scientists and students.

Los Angeles has taken a lot of water from Mono Lake over decades by tapping into creeks that flow into it. In shoreline tours, guides impress on visitors just how much higher the lake should be.

A new study identifies the cause of sea star wasting disease, offering hope the animals can come back and help West Coast kelp forests recover.

Los Angeles uses water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. Three decades after a decision that was intended to save the lake, environmental advocates say L.A. needs to do more.

A train workers union this week called on Union Pacific to help facilitate a long-sought trail to Mossbrae Falls, near Dunsmuir, so hikers don't risk their lives walking on the tracks.

More than 100 public access signs have been installed, and locals and visitors will now have an uninterrupted walkway along the shoreline.

Just outside Dunsmuir, Mossbrae Falls cascades down mossy cliffs in ethereal curtains of mist, a natural wonder that should be a major tourist draw. But the city has struggled to get the rights to bui...

Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.

Fire departments say prices for new engines have soared and orders are backlogged for years. Two senators are investigating whether investors who have disrupted the industry are the reason.

A Houston-based oil company has rebuffed the authority of the California Coastal Commission in a bid to revive drilling off the coast of Santa Barbara.

The new video game console will still be released in June, the Japanese company said. Its price was unveiled as $450 this week.

For Immediate Release Tuesday, Match 18, 2025 Contact: Press@ltg.ca.gov, (916) 445-8994 SACRAMENTO, CA — Today, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, alongside the California State Lands Commission…

Scientists worry there will be immediate harm from the Trump administration's latest federal workforce cuts, which hit NOAA and the National Weather Service.