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Humpback whales, working in teams, circle herring with disorienting curtains of bubbles off Alaska's coast, then shoot up from below with their mouths open. This innovation developed among unrelated groups of humpbacks but is now a widely adopted practice.

Belugas play, a sperm whale nurses, and orcas teach their pups to hunt in a series of photographs from National Geographic photographer and explorer Brian Skerry.

John Thelen's home well near Burns, Ore., produced this pile of black sand before it ran dry. He dug deeper only to reach drinking water contaminated with arsenic.

Water Crisis Puts Oregon Community At A Crossroads

Groundwater in southeastern Oregon is drying up. Farming, which uses a lot of that water, could decimate the region unless communities make drastic changes soon.

Onlookers stand next to the backpacks and books of victims of the bombing Saturday in Kabul. Most of the victims were teenage schoolgirls.

What The School Attack Means For Afghanistan's Future

Shaharzad Akbar of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission says the viciousness of killing schoolgirls was especially devastating. She wants women present in peace talks.

Florida will become at least the 22nd state to end participation in the federal benefits program, which is scheduled to expire in September.

Florida Is Latest State To End Federal Jobless Benefits Early

Jobless Floridian’s will no longer get an extra $300 a week in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits starting in late June. Florida is the latest GOP-controlled state to announce plans to cut off the payments early.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who has helped the U.S. through other crises like the Zika outbreak, is now taking on health misinformation around COVID-19, which he says continues to jeopardize the country's efforts to beat back the virus.

The U.S. Surgeon General Is Calling COVID-19 Misinformation An 'Urgent Threat'

The nation's top doctor, Vivek Murthy, says misinformation will keep sowing mistrust and endangering lives unless all Americans do their part to fight it.

Mariama Keita, a farmer in Senegal, uses her cellphone to figure out the best time to harvest her peanut plants.

This Peanut Farmer Turns To A Cellphone — And Prayer — For A Top Crop

Mariama Keita of Senegal farms the old-school way: hoes, pitchforks, no tractor. But lately she's relying on a not-so-traditional tool.

Staff at the Kabul Small Animal Rescue are working to put together travel crates so the organization's dogs and cats can safely be evacuated out of Afghanistan.

An Animal Rescue Group Is Racing To Get Hundreds Of Pets Out Of Afghanistan By Aug. 31

Kabul Small Animal Rescue's American director is raising money to airlift more than 200 dogs and cats, the group's staff and their families before foreign troops leave at the end of the month.

Giselle Ramirez Garcia protests with a group from Immokalee on the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of farmworker Nicolas Morales Besanilla

"We Need Support, Not Bullets"

Protesters demand action from Collier county Sheriff's Office on the anniversary of Nicolas Morales Besanilla's shooting death.

Snail Kites Move North as Health of Lake O & the Everglades Wane

While Florida’s endangered snail kite has rebounded a bit, the native species of snail it lives off has not. So the snail kite is changing its diet and moving on from its long-time habitat in the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee.

High schoolers Ethan Lincoln, Kaylee King and Jamin Crow's podcast about their experiences subsistence hunting is a finalist in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. The students are pictured here at the KYUK radio transmitter site in Bethel, Alaska.

When Schools Shut Down In Alaska, These Students Went Moose Hunting

In the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska, many families practice subsistence hunting to get food on the table. Three students reconnected with that tradition during the pandemic.

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