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GIFFORD FIRE: 65,062 Acres 3% contained Hwy 166 closed between Hwy 101 and New Cuyama UPDATE (4:10 p.m.) – Los Padres National Forest fire officials shared a video update on the Gifford Fire on Facebook: ___ UPDATE (2:55 p.m.) – San Luis Obispo County has activated its Phone Assistance Center. Call (805) 543-2444 for information regarding the Gifford Fire.___ UPDATE …

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Space weather encompasses any variations in the space environment between the Sun and …

People sun tan in grass off the Lakefront Trail on the North Side as a haze of Canadian wildfire smoke blankets the Chicago area and creates poor air quality, Thursday, July 31, 2025. Ashlee Rezin/AP/Chicago Sun-Times hide caption toggle caption Ashlee Rezin/AP/Chicago Sun-Times Hazy skies hung over parts of the midwest and northeastern U.S. on Sunday, caused by smoke drifting …

Health officials across California are asking people to stay away from wild animals after two children contracted a brain-eating parasite.  A CDC report this week revealed a 14-year-old boy and 15-month-old boy suffered from a B. procyonis infection in September 2024 in Los Angeles, prompting a public alert by the agency. B. procyonis infection, also known as raccoon roundworm infection, is a …

A surprisingly weak July employment report has intensified expectations that the Federal Reserve will resume cutting interest rates as soon as September, with mounting evidence of a slowing U.S. economy and faltering labor market offsetting persistent inflation worries driven by new tariff hikes. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had previously left rates unchanged at a range of 4.25% to …

Hawaii Cruise Ships Leave Passengers Behind Amid Tsunami Warnings  The New York Times Tsunami advisory canceled for Hawaii after M8.8 earthquake off Russia  Hawaii News Now Thursday briefing: How ​global ​preparedness ​prevented a ​tsunami ​tragedy  The Guardian Huge quake in Russia triggers tsunami warnings around Pacific  Reuters Array of buoys in Pacific act as warning beacons to catastrophic and deadly tsunamis  KATU Source link

HONOLULU (AP) — One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast and as far south as New Zealand. Warnings are being downgraded in most areas, though advisories remain in place as more aftershocks are …

A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake has triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuation orders stretching across Japan, the US west coast and parts of the Pacific, after the shallow quake hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, with reports of waves up to four metres high in the remote region. The earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, struck at …

Russia massive earthquake triggers tsunami warnings: Here’s what we know so far  CNBC TIME-LAPSE: Water recedes along Kauai shoreline as tsunami arrives  Hawaii News Now Tsunami waves begin to hit Hawaii after massive 8.8 quake strikes off Russia  FOX Weather Tsunami Warning for Hawaii after 8.7M earthquake hits Russia; evacuation zones in place  KITV ‘Prepared for a long stay’: tsunami alert triggers mass evacuations …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered his brain through his nose. His parents had no clue the brain-eating amoeba, whose scientific name is Naegleria fowleri, …