
Is that bear fat or just chonky? Lasers may help scientists find out
CNN
One mid-September evening in 2018, Joel Cusick found himself pointing a laser scanner at the butt of a bear named Otis.
Cusick was taking a break from work, standing on a platform along the Brooks River in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve — a world-famous spot for bear watching, as the giant mammals like to wade in the water to hang out and catch fish. Otis was a few hundred feet away, standing relatively still.

The governments of Mexico and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to fund and expedite several wastewater treatment projects in the Tijuana River basin. Untreated wastewater continually affects residents living along the river, which flows across the border from Tijuana and through several of San Diego’s southern neighborhoods.