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Two Colorado hikers, Kaden Matsuda, left, and Jackson Donlon, found dead. (Chaffee County Sheriff's Office) Two college students who went missing on a weekend hike in the Colorado mountains died after an anchor they were using while climbing failed and they fell a "substantial" distance, according to authorities.Kaden Matsuda, 19, and Jackson Donlon, 20, were found dead in a basin of West Apostle Mountain on Oct. 28, days after setting […]

A sixth person in Pennsylvania has died of measles, state health officials said Wednesday.The person was unvaccinated and a resident of Jefferson County, according to the officials.This brings the nation’s total to seven measles-associated deaths this year, which includes six in Pennsylvania and one in New York.Pennsylvania has reported 1,467 cases so far this year, becoming the largest outbreak in U.S. recent memory. The death in Pennsylvania comes just days after […]

This year's ozone hole over the Antarctic was the largest in a decade, according to a new report by NOAA and NASA.The 2026 ozone hole became the seventh largest in 48 years of monitoring, fueled by an unusually powerful polar vortex which prolonged ozone depletion in the Antarctic and allowed the hole to grow larger, researchers explained.This is a stark contrast to 2025, when the ozone hole ranked as the […]

Voters in Missouri rejected an anti-abortion rights measure on the ballot that would have prohibited abortions, with some exceptions, and undone the "right to reproductive freedom" that voters had previously enshrined two years ago.The failed amendment, led by anti-abortion rights PAC Her Health and Her Future, would have allowed state lawmakers to enact legislation to regulate abortions and access to care, according to the Guttmacher Institute.The measure voters rejected would […]