Nature

A big picture look at global insect decline shows land bugs are disappearing at a rate of nearly 1% a year

A wolf that wandered thousands of miles from Oregon and became the first wild wolf spotted in California in almost 90 years before returning to Oregon and starting a pack is believed to be dead, wildlife officials said.

Take a little break from coronavirus coverage to look at the beauty of cherry blossom trees which line the National Mall in Washington, D.C., but were brought to the United States from Japan.

A fishing crew in Canada caught the wonders of nature on camera when they saw a giant Pacific octopus in the middle of a fight with a bald eagle. The eagle “had bitten off more than it could chew when it tried to catch an octopus,” Mowi Canada West wrote on Facebook.

Friday night: Tropical Storm Warning Cape and Islands, rain and wind. Lows in the 50s. Saturday: Early morning rain and wind, isolated coastal wind damage, then afternoon drying. Highs in the 60s. Sunday: Bright, pleasant. Highs in the 70s.

New Hampshire’s Free Fishing Day is coming up. On Saturday, June 1, you can fish anywhere in the state — freshwater or saltwater — without a fishing license.

Despite the return of threatening Santa Ana winds, a combined force of firefighters battling the deadly Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura counties was able to hold the blaze within containment lines Sunday, but officials warned that unburned areas in that footprint and to the south continued to pose danger.

NWS says two EF-1 tornadoes touched down in Worcester County in Massachusetts overnight Thursday. First one was from Douglas to Uxbridge to Northbridge, while the second one was in Upton.

The clean-up is well underway after a wild morning in Worcester County. Two tornadoes touched down Thursday. Jennifer Bolton, an Upton resident, and her daughter Lily were asleep when they were woken up by the storm and the countless trees that were coming down in their neighborhood.

Record heat returned to the United States with a vengeance in May. May warmed to a record average 65.4 degrees in the Lower 48 states, breaking the high of 64.7 set in 1934, according to federal weather figures released Wednesday. May was 5.2 degrees above the 20th century’s average for the month. Weather stations in the nation broke or tied...

Scituate, Massachusetts has already been hit with several high tides during this early March nor’easter, but the town is bracing for the noon high tide Saturday.

Scituate emergency management is warning that the high tide that will hit at midnight is going to bring a lot of damage, and is urging people who haven’t to evacuate if they are in flood prone areas.

First storm of the season is almost upon us. Pretty low key since it arrives on a Saturday. Sunday is quieter, as we await the next storm Tuesday and a numbing shot of cold next week.

High temperatures at a Finland Wildlife Center were making life uncomfortable for a family of polar bears. However, the child of an employee at a local ski resort had an idea on how to cool them off: the resort could donate excess snow they had saved up from last winter. After some initial hesitation, the bear family seemed much happier…

A sinkhole that started out the size of a small swimming pool and continued to grow in Florida swallowed a boat, destroyed two homes and prompted officials to evacuate residents from about a dozen homes Friday. Dramatic video showed the home in Land O’ Lakes, north of Tampa in Pasco County, collapsing into the hole Friday morning. It quickly engulfed...

The waters around Istanbul have turned a striking shade of turquoise due to an annual bloom of phytoplankton.

A pod of more than 20 pilot whales became beached on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka Wednesday. The country’s Navy personnel and local residents helped save the whales by pushing them out to deeper waters.