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"We've done it before. It's just the price we pay for living where we live," said a woman who runs an oyster restaurant in an area that was pounded by dangerous storm surge from Hurricane Michael.

"Avoid, avoid, avoid," one fire ant expert says. The ants, common in areas flooded by Harvey, can't be submerged underwater. But if you have a bottle of soapy water, you might be able to drown them.

Another typhoon is bearing down on the search area as rescuers rush to find more survivors from the Gulf Livestock 1, which went down Wednesday with 43 crew and some 5,800 head of cattle aboard.

We now use AI in more and more areas of our lives. But with its high emissions, should we resist this new tech? AI researcher Sasha Luccioni is working for a greener, more transparent future for AI.

President Bush speaks with leaders of Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political parties today, urging them to head off full-scale civil war in Iraq. Meanwhile, troops are on patrol as a curfew falls on Baghdad and other areas.

The blazes in one state alone have consumed an area about eight times the size of Los Angeles, and other fires have erupted across Australia. Amid drought and dry months to come, it could get worse.

A late-season storm has been crippling travel and knocking out power across the region. The hardest hit areas will likely be digging out of more than 2 feet of snow before the storm tapers off.

Palestinians have been massively displaced from areas of Gaza under a new Israeli military effort. Many have ended up in Gaza City where families are pitching tents near a once-picturesque seaport.

The official re-opening of parts of New Orleans begins Saturday. But residents are already trickling back in. And that's creating challenges for the police and security forces. The authorities are struggling to cordon off areas that remain off-limits.

New research suggests that racial disparities and other biased outcomes in medicine, the criminal justice system, and other areas, can be explained by unconscious attitudes and stereotypes. But how do we get rid of subtle racial biases?

More than 180 airports in rural areas across the U.S. benefit from federal funding that guarantees commercial air service. That program might lose half its funding due to Trump administration cuts.

People with extraordinary autobiographical memories also tend to have obsessive tendencies, researchers are learning. Brain scans reveal structural differences in the brains of these people, including a larger-than-normal caudate, a brain area linked to OCD.

There's a massive area in the Gulf of Mexico that's so low in oxygen, aquatic life can't survive there. Many say it's mainly from excessive fertilizer that runs off from Midwestern farms.

The Carolinas are known for bluegrass, not funk. But during the late '60s and early '70s, numerous bands from the area recorded regionally released funk 45s. Take a listen to some of the rarest and heaviest tracks.

New Orleans today began allowing residents from eight of the city's 18 postal zip codes to return home as part of a phased return program. Many areas of the city still lack electricity and clean water.

Areas of Fallujah were leveled in two huge battles 20 years ago when the U.S. invaded Iraq. ISIS took it over and was driven out in 2016. Today, it is a very different city, but the memories remain.

Many cities hold arts festivals during the summer. Rome joined the party last Saturday as part of a larger effort to radically revamp traffic and make the area around the Coliseum and other monuments more welcoming for pedestrians.

One woman's personal but epic struggle in Venezuela says a lot about poverty there. She sifts through trash and even moved to the capital where the pickings might offer more than even poorer areas.

In Las Vegas, a team of water officers patrol city neighborhoods to make sure people aren't wasting water. Fines, the city has found, have helped reduce wasted water in an area that's in drought.

Rents in the Bay Area are among the highest in the country, pushing many artists into illegal work/live spaces like the Ghost Ship, where a fire left 36 dead. Now, officials vow to step up regulation.