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On an island off the coast of Washington state, scientists have resorted to breeding sunflower sea stars in a lab. It's a desperate attempt to save the endangered animals from disappearing completely.

To Save A Huge, 24-Armed Sea Creature, Scientists Become Loving Foster Parents

A mysterious disease is killing off the West Coast's enormous sunflower sea star, so researchers have launched an ambitious effort to breed this species in captivity.

Supervisor Joel Anderson speaks outside of Nonno's Ristorante Italiano in La Mesa, Jan. 20, 2021.

County To Use Scientific Data To Justify COVID-19 Enforcement

Supervisor Joel Anderson said the new COVID-19 enforcement policy should relieve restaurants and businesses of arbitrary enforcement, by backing action with evidence.

Triantha occidentalis, with its dainty white flowers appears innocuous, but its sticky stem helps it trap and make a meal of tiny insects.

This Sweet White Flower Is Actually A Sneaky Carnivore, Scientists Discover

Carnivorous plants are rare, but now botanists say they've found one that's long been overlooked. It lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, and in other parts of the Pacific Northwest.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro pulls off his protective face mask to address the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021.

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro Remains Defiant On COVID-19 And The Environment At The U.N.

So far Bolsonaro's trip to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly appears to be anything but a success for Brazil or the country's image after a series of blunders early this week.

Voters in New York soundly rejected two ballot measures that would have allowed for expanded voting access in the state.

What 2021's recent elections tell us about voting in 2022 and beyond

Recent off-year elections showed that voters may not be so invested in making it easier to vote while Republicans may benefit from higher voter turnout than they previously had thought.

President Biden's Big Talk About Diplomacy Is Being Tested At The UN General Assembly

Lofty rhetoric about multilateralism is meeting the hard reality for President Biden at the UN General Assembly as he tries to smooth over a dispute with America's oldest ally, France.

A train is ready on the station during the handover ceremony of the high-speed rail project in Vientiane, Laos, connecting the city with Kunming, China, on Dec. 3, 2021.

With U.S. focused on defense, China's trade and infrastructure sweep Southeast Asia

The Biden administration hopes to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia but lags far behind China, which has already built up major trade ties, as well as roads and a high-speed rail.

Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to fill the House seat left vacant when Deb Haaland was confirmed as the first Native American to head the Department of the Interior.

A New Mexico Special Election Is Posing An Early Test Of Democrats' 2022 Messaging

Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to fill the House seat left vacant in March when Deb Haaland was confirmed as the first Native American in U.S. history to head the Department of the Interior.

A registered nurse stirs a nasal swab in testing solution after administering a COVID-19 test in Los Angeles, Calif. Increased testing could help in efforts to detect and track new variants like omicron.

U.S. races to detect and track omicron, hampered by an unwieldy surveillance system

What's the U.S. doing to watch out for the omicron variant? Here's the work underway and the challenges that experts say may slow down the country's efforts.

Chef and YouTube host Pailin Chongchitnant.

Cooking up food and identity in Pailin Chongchitnant's "Hot Thai Kitchen"

When chef Pailin Chongchitnant realized that cable television wasn't ready for a Thai cooking show, she started her own on YouTube. On it, she breaks down some of the misconceptions about the cuisine.

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