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UPDATED with latest: Even before the first drop of rain falls, the impacts of the coming storm are already beginning to be felt across Los Angeles. Among them: Due to the potential for flooding, Pepperdine University will shift to remote classes tomorrow for students at the Malibu and Calabasas campuses. Regular operations are expected to resume Wednesday. Topanga Canyon Boulevard …

scientists have unveiled a colossal underwater crater beneath Chesapeake Bay, three times the size of the Grand Canyon. Formed by an asteroid strike 35 million years ago, this discovery reshapes our understanding of catastrophic events in Earth’s history. It echoes findings from a recent Meteorite & Planetary Science study, which explores how such impacts have dramatically influenced Earth’s climate and …

Robert Redford and His Beloved Utah Canyon  The New York Times ‘The Twilight Zone’ Gave a Glimpse of Robert Redford’s Gifts  The New York Times Robert Redford, The Way He Was  The Hollywood Reporter Robert Redford’s Grandkids Share Never-Before-Seen Family Photos After Actor’s Death: ‘He Was Larger Than Life’  People.com Actor, director, environmentalist Robert Redford dies at 89  CNN Source link

A Girl Scout who fell into a canyon during a hike in a remote, mountainous part of Southern California earlier this year was rescued within hours after suffering a potentially dangerous concussion thanks to a direct-to-cell satellite service that enables users to get in touch with 911 using a regular smartphone in the absence of terrestrial cell phone coverage. Owners …

A bumpy, pink fish with blue eyes and beard-like appendages has been filmed hovering over the muddy bottom of Monterey Canyon, at a depth of more than 10,700 feet (3,300 meters) off the coast of California. This strange little snailfish, captured on camera by a group led by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), turned out to …

In new polling designed to gauge American perceptions of the Trump administration’s vaccine policy shifts, only one in four believe that recent recommendations are based on scientific evidence and facts, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey. Penn State / Flickr cc Led by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a long-time vaccine skeptic, federal agencies have narrowed …

A feeding female Anopheles funestus mosquito in 2014. Photo by James Gathany/U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP Vermont’s Department of Health confirmed the state’s first-known human case of the mosquito-borne Jamestown Canyon virus. The disease has relatively mild symptoms, especially for young people who do not have underlying health conditions. The state began monitoring mosquitoes for Jamestown …

Mars’ Valles Marineris stretches nearly a quarter of the way around the planet’s equator. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) QUICK FACTS What it is: Candor Chasma, a large canyon on Mars Where it is: Valles Marineris, the biggest canyon network in the solar system When it was shared: Aug. 14, 2025 Mars has a huge network of canyons that stretches …

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of penis worm, armed with many rings of teeth. Penis worms are marine creatures with a distinctly phallic appearance. There are more than 20 known species living across the world’s oceans today, as well as a number …

Evacuation orders were lifted Friday evening in parts of Southern California as firefighters battling the Canyon Fire made progress taming the blaze. The fire has scorched an estimated 5,370 acres and was 47% contained Saturday night, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). The evacuation orders, which affected thousands of residents in Ventura County and …