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Record levels of heat in the ocean are causing a worldwide mass bleaching event on coral reefs, as seen here on the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists are working on creating more heat-resistant coral to help restore reefs.
Veronique Mocellin /AIMSCoral reefs can't keep up with climate change. So scientists are speeding up evolution National News
Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.
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Venezuela orders the closure of its embassy in Ecuador National News
Venezuela's president ordered the closure of his country's embassy in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
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Bob Graham, former U.S. senator and Florida governor, has died at 87 National News
Graham gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war.
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Supreme Court gives skeptical eye to key statute used to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters National News
Conservatives on the court expressed varying degrees of skepticism about the charge of obstructing an official proceeding.
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Dominion’s offshore wind construction vessel, named after Greek sea monster, moves to the water Local News
Dominion announced the 23,000-ton ship was lifted from land, rolled to the edge of a dock and placed in the water to undergo the rest of the work needed to finish it by late 2024.
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Controlled burns are a land management technique that provide many benefits to the forest. Depending on the ecosystem, some seeds lie dormant underground until they experience fire.
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The protest aimed at lottery tickets was the latest escalation in the long-running gambling turf war playing out in Virginia as various interests try to bend state policy in their favor.
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Legislators are preparing to consider actions taken by Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday, after the Republican vetoed a record number of bills and suggested hundreds of changes to the state budget.
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