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NPR's Alex Chadwick has the last of three reports on the megatransect: a year-long journey across part of Africa undertaken by field scientist Michael Fay. Fay is walking from the northern Congo basin to the Atlantic coast, following animal trails where there are no roads, foot paths, or villages. Today, he talks with Chadwick by satellite phone as he camps out in the mountains of southwestern Gabon .

Oil prices fell on world markets Sunday as traders expressed relief that Hurricane Rita spared most of the refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Brigadier Gen. Ken Gluck, deputy commanding general of a U.S. military task force rushing to aid to areas hardest-hit by Sunday's earthquake and tsunami, calls the devastation along the west coasts of Indonesia and Thailand "overwhelming," and details American plans to provide relief.

After 462 days and more than 8,000 miles, the boat landed off the coast of Norway. It was tracked the entire way, thanks to being equipped with GPS, and was retrieved by a sixth grader and his mother.

NASA releases a videotape recorded on the space shuttle Columbia shortly before it broke up over Texas. The portion of the tape retrieved by NASA ends with the orbiter at 250,000 feet, approaching the coast of California. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Melissa Block.

The families of four victims of last year’s dive boat fire off the Santa Barbara Coast have filed wrongful death claims against the boat’s owners.

Off the California coast, passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship are quarantined. People aboard are waiting for test results to come back from swabs taken Thursday.

After days of circling the waters off the coast of San Francisco, the Grand Princess cruise ship docked at the Port of Oakland carrying at least 21 people infected with coronavirus.

Homelessness in Eureka In the small North Coast town of Eureka, traffic is sparse — except for the groups of people who walk back and forth along a one mile stretch of land on the main drag. The California Report’s John Sepulvado reports from Fourth Street in Eureka, where he talks to the Humboldt County … Continue reading The California Report →

The new laws seek to block a proposed federal expansion of offshore drilling along California's coast by prohibiting new infrastructure that could be used to bring that oil to land.