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Presidents' reactions have consistently combined outrage with promises of revenge. The language is remarkably similar. But there has been far less consistency in the delivery of actual retaliation.

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from Durban, South Africa, where the 13th International AIDS Conference opened today. In his opening address South African President Thabo Mbeki defended his government's controversial AIDS policies and said that poverty in Africa calls for different solutions to the epidemic.

Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest peak.

Noah Adams notes the end of the Russian Mir spacecraft which fell to earth today. Chunks fell harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean.

He's starring in the new film The United States of Leland. His other films include Boogie Nights, Ocean's Eleven and Traffic.

A group of scientists is embarking on a bold plan to better understand an extremely understudied part of the rapidly warming Arctic — the central Arctic Ocean.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Professor Douglas McCauley, director of the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory, about a new technology that protects whales from colliding with large shipping vessels.

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have discovered changes within the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zones.

More than 300 million tons of plastic are produced in the U.S. each year, with 14 million of them ending up in the ocean, according to the Department of Interior.

While the majority of the world's oceans are warming, the waters off the west coast of the Galapagos Islands are getting colder — creating a refuge from climate change for birds and marine animals.