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Fifty years ago Oregon officials decided to blow up a dead whale. What happened next is the stuff of legend.

Climate change is exacerbating the severity of the wildfires on the West Coast, but prior and current forest management decisions, and politics, also play a huge role.

The National Weather Service predicts areas on the East Coast could reach 100 degrees Thursday, with triple-digit temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, too. Relief isn't expected until the weekend.

Extreme heat and on-going drought have made Western wildfires a national challenge this summer, with smoke moving from coast-to-coast. The peak of fire season isn't even here yet.

California's Central Coast is facing a future with much less water. Vineyards and the irrigation they need aren't sustainable. So Paso Robles is courting a spaceport as the region's new moneymaker.

Residents-only policies at many of the nation's town-owned beaches mean low-income people and people of color have less access to the shore.

Many beachgoers have probably seen seaweed washed up on shore. We take a trip to the California coast to forage for seaweed.

Hurricane Idalia's storm surge and powerful winds raked across several of Florida's older and rural Gulf Coast communities. Now, the cleanup begins.

A special U.S. Navy operation freed Richard Phillips — the captain who was held captive by Somali pirates for five days off the east coast of Africa. U.S. Navy snipers shot to death three of the pirates on Sunday.

Capt. Shane Murphy is among the 20 Americans aboard the U.S.-flagged vessel Maersk Alabama, which was attacked Wednesday by pirates off the coast of Somalia. His father, Capt. Joseph Murphy, says Shane Murphy has been trained in anti-terrorism tactics.