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Because of light pollution, most people in the U.S. don't know what a full night sky looks like. But the Massacre Rim area in Nevada has recently been designated a Dark Sky Sanctuary.

A new analysis by Freddie Mac has found that only 7.4% of appraisals in majority-white census tracts came in below contract price, compared with 12.5% for Black areas and 15.4% for Latino ones.

The earthquake that hit Seattle wasn't that much of a surprise -- the area is seismically active and geologists expect this kind of thing. But as NPR's David Kestenbaum reports, it does provide some lessons on what breaks and how to build better.

NPR's Howard Berkes has the latest on continued flooding in Northern California. While most areas are cleaning up, releases from full reservoirs continue to place pressure on saturated levees, leaving some communities at risk.

Ukrainians are fleeing from Russian-held areas to avoid the sham referendums, which could pave the way for annexation. "It was all staged," said one Ukrainian. "How can you vote when they have guns?"

In Brazil's coffee-producing areas, more than 42,000 square miles of forest have disappeared over about two decades, says Coffee Watch. Deforestation leads to drought, which harms crop yields.

A town in Ontario has been trying for several years to get rid of thousands of crows that have come to roost in the area. Noah talks to Leo Denys, General Manager of Infrastructure and Environmental Services for the municipality of Chatham, Ontario.

Sporadic battles continue in northern Iraq. In the Kurdish-controlled town of Sulamaniyah, many fighters loyal to Saddam Hussein move though the area disguised as civilians. NPR's Juan Williams talks to Michael Ware of Time magazine.

There are plans to bring a new dump to Uniontown, Ala., where the county commission approved the project because the area desperately needs jobs. Commentator John Fleming says this is the kind of case that has been labeled "environmental racism."

To win the White House, the Harris-Walz ticket will need to appeal to voters in purple areas, and maybe even red ones. We asked Democrats who live in those parts of the country what could make that happen.

Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown hopes to keep his Senate seat in increasingly red Ohio by campaigning directly to rural voters. Democrats hope the key to victory is simply losing by less in areas where the GOP dominates.

"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.