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Several Beach rescue agencies, including the Coast Guard, Jacksonville Beach and Atlantic Beach Ocean Rescue, and Lifeguards Without Borders will perform…

Drivers in Jacksonville Beach continue to confront pools of standing water on the roads, and those headed to the beach should be aware of the dangers…

Climate change could impact the strength of hurricanes in the Atlantic. That’s according to Senior NASA Scientist, Timothy Hall.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the 15-year journey of the world's first true space station. Russian cosmonauts as well as politicians recall Mir with fondness: it provided truly new scientific information about long-duration space flight's effects on humans, as well a politically valuable comeback for the Soviet Union after the U.S. pulled ahead in the space race. Mir outlived its expected life span, and recently the aging orbiter has experienced a series of mishaps and accidents. Russia will "de-orbit" the craft this week and bring it back to a fiery grave somewhere, hopefully, in the Pacific Ocean.

American Queen Voyages is starting new 12-day cruises sailing out of Jacksonville. The company has plans for 11 more cruises out of Jacksonville this year.

Actor, producer, writer, director George Clooney directed and co-wrote the new film Good Night, and Good Luck, about the showdown between legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy that took place in 1954.

The lobsters people eat, it seems, may be the stupid lobsters -- or at least the unlucky ones. Scientists observing a lobster trap set in the Atlantic Ocean off Portsmouth, New Hampshire were surprised to learn that the vast majority of lobsters that enter the trap were easily able to escape. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks with University of New Hampshire zoology professor Win Watson.

In a well-explored part of the Pacific, researchers have discovered a novel species of worm. The female tube worms live with dozens of males and food-providing bacteria inside them. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

As Western wildfires get more destructive, scientists are finding a far-off connection to shrinking ice on the Arctic Ocean.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Roger Bennett, co-author of Gods of Soccer: The Pantheon of the 100 Greatest Soccer Players.