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A volcano on Spain's Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity. Lava flows destroyed isolated homes on the nearby mountainside.

Friday at 8pm BEAT THE DEVIL (1953) An action/adventure starring Humphrey Bogart , Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida . A group of rogues and a...

A 12,400-mile journey by a great white shark puts a snag in the theory that the animals stick close to established feeding grounds. The trip is bolstering claims that the sharks need worldwide protection.

South African wildfires — some caused by human error — in the verdant wine region have seriously damaged one of the country's oldest vineyards.

Barrie Hardymon is the Senior Editor at NPR's Weekend Edition, and the lead editor for books. You can hear her on the radio talking everything from Middlemarch to middle grade novels, and she's also a frequent panelist on NPR's podcasts It's Been A Minute and Pop Culture Happy Hour. She went to Juilliard to study viola, ended up a cashier at the Strand, and finally got a degree from Johns Hopkins' Writing Seminars which qualified her solely for work in public radio. She lives and reads in Washington, DC.

There's a giant Chinese rocket booster hurtling toward the planet, and no one seems to know exactly when or where it's going to land. The U.S. Space…

The musical superstar continues to challenge herself while elevating global artists for an album inspired by the new remake of The Lion King, in theaters now.

Saharan dust moving across the Atlantic will help keep tropical storms quiet, for now.

The U.S. exports a billion pounds of used clothes every year. Much of that winds up in used clothing markets in sub-Saharan Africa.

On this week's program: One of Florida’s most savvy public revenue hawks thinks the president’s tariff-o-rama is bad. At least in the near term; The State of Florida seems destined to be a major lockup point for immigrants taken into custody for whatever reason; For the time being at least, there will be no changes to how Florida citizens can propose changes to the state’s constitution; There’s good news in Florida’s new budget for advocates of more affordable housing; With federal clean energy incentives soon to be history, the question is can renewable energy enterprise survive in the Sunshine State? A new law allowing privately-operated charter schools to share space with traditional public schools is already causing some controversy; Florida boaters – and motorists – are being urged to slow it down if they have to travel on flooded streets. The impact on nearby properties can be huge; And it seems life just gets tougher and tougher for what used to be a vibrant variety of fish in the seas around Florida.