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Lahaina's extreme wildfire destroyed much of its historic waterfront. Residents are eager to rebuild, but officials are weighing whether they should, given the dangers of rising sea levels.

Actor Jimmy O. Yang plays a round of Wild Card and talks to NPR's Rachel Martin about learning how to take compliments and being afraid of oceans.

NPR's Jordana Hochman will be spending the next few weeks travelling through Liberia, and is trying to learn how the country is recovering from 14 years of political instability and violence.

States that have detected the variant range from Hawaii to Massachusetts. The reports are part of a new surge in COVID-19 cases.

Thembi Ngubane lives in one of South Africa's largest townships. She has a boyfriend and is close to her parents. She is living with AIDS. For a year, she recorded her daily struggles and triumphs.

Now 28, the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti is still leading the band he inherited from his father when he was just 14.

A narrow pocket of heavy rain is likely over South Florida Friday into Saturday thanks to high levels of moisture streaming in from the Atlantic Ocean....

Most public schools in South Florida provide few supplies to teachers at the start of a new school year. Dwan Hunt McClain is a teacher at North Miami...

When bottles and bags are cast out to sea, the debris never truly goes away — it just gets smaller. And these plastic particles, called microplastics, are ready meals for fish and birds.

For decades, a mysterious quacking "bio-duck" has been heard roaming the waters of the Southern Ocean. Now scientists say the source is a whale.