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With more than a month-and-a-half left in 2020, Jacksonville has already seen more rainfall than the yearly average and new research suggests that all of…

A group of meteorologists says global warming probably isn't responsible for an apparent dramatic increase in the strength of extreme storms during the past few decades. The group says that, until 1990, even the best satellite data tended to underestimate the wind speed of storms.

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry warned people to stay out of the ocean and off the roadways.

The Chinese town of Shijiao is known for recycling discarded Christmas tree lights for their copper and wire insulation, which are then used to support growing economies and make slipper soles, respectively. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter explores the business of recycling what developed nations throw away.

In Dakar, Senegal, two rappers going by the names Keyti and Xuman offer a summary of the week's news in hip-hop format. This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 15, 2015.

Renee Montagne brings us an update on the memorial service for the late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.

Mike Shuster talks with James Hersov, who's just produced The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story. The film is said to be the first production made in collaboration with the San, the first people of Africa. Hersov says the San still practice much of their indigenous culture, but elements of modern society are creeping into their lives. He says The Great Dance is an attempt to show how the San view their world.

The U.N. special envoy for AIDS in Africa praises President Bush's pledge to combat global AIDS. Half of the $15 billion program would be spent on treatment, a third on prevention and the rest on care. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Rachel Swarns of The New York Times.

In part two of our series on the "Megatransect", an attempt by wildlife biologist Mike Fay to walk from the center of Africa to its eastern coast, Fay describes his journey through the Congo Basin. The region is filled with dense jungles and swaps. And it harbors some of the deadliest diseases known to man. Through his recorded field diary, Fay relates the difficulty his team faced as it trekked through a part of the world no human has seen in more than a century. (8:49

A former U.S. Army sergeant pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Saudi-born dissident Osama Bin Laden to bomb two American embassies in Africa. Ali Mohamed, an Egyptian native, is among seventeen people indicted for the attacks on the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 220 people in 1998. Appearing in federal court in New York City, Mohamed admitted to working with the organization known as Islamic Jihad to attack Western targets. Mohamed left the U.S. Army in 1989.