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NPR's Stephen Thompson introduces us to the song "This Lonely Morning" by Los Angeles rock duo Best Coast, off their latest album "Fade Away."

Two months after hundreds of tons of toxic waste were dumped in and around the West African city of Abidjan, in Ivory Coast, the putrid stench and poisonous fumes have faded. But the international scandal has not.

The parade of storms that have pummeled California this winter caused hundreds of rockslides around the state. Now, geologists are out assessing new risks and shoring up protections.

The Coast Guard says it's suspending its search at sunset for two teenage fishermen who've been missing for a week. Capt. Mark Fedor says the search...

SpaceX will get another ship to help land rocket boosters off Florida’s Space Coast. SpaceX lands the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket so that it can...

A freighter carrying nearly 500,000 gallons of fuel runs aground off the coast of Alaska in the Aleutian chain. A search continues for six crewmembers missing in the frigid Bering Sea. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

State officials order more than a million people to evacuate Florida's east coast as Hurricane Frances heads their way. The storm is twice the size of Hurricane Charley, which battered the state three weeks ago -- and just as potent. Bobby Link of Florida Public Radio reports.

Ivory Coast has become the latest target of a terrorist attack in West Africa claimed by Islamist extremists. It was the third such attack in 5 months on hotels popular with foreigners in the region.

The recent tsunami in the Indian Ocean has left many wondering if such a disaster could happen on the Pacific Coast. In 1964 it did. As NPR's John Nielsen reports, experts can't predict such an event, but a new detection system might help.

Scientists say toxic red tide is back in the waters off the Florida southwest coast after fading away earlier this year following a 15-month bloom.