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Hurricane Dorian has parked itself over the Bahamas. The storm has killed at least five people and destroyed thousands of homes. Power outages are the norm.

Purple sea urchins are devouring the kelp forest off California's coast. To help the forest survive, researchers are trying to make these urchins a delicacy on menus at seafood restaurants.

Rachel Martin talks to Casey Tingle, deputy director of the Louisiana governor's emergency preparedness office, about Tropical Storm Barry which is threatening the state.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with artist Devonté Hynes about how his Grammy-nominated classical album Fields came together and the artist he is most grateful for – Angel Bat Dawid.

In the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan pushed for offshore oil, Oregon pushed back. Reagan’s oil agenda inspired the state to create new policy to protect its shores.

Atmospheric rivers produce up to 50 percent of California's precipitation annually and 65 percent seasonally.

Invasive green crabs are harming habitats in the pacific northwest. A solution? Researchers say catch 'em and eat 'em. Scott Simon talks with marine scientist Shon Schooler.

The move, planned for 2024, would make the Big Ten the first college athletics conference to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Such massive storms are fairly rare, and it's even more rare for them to make landfall. NOAA says that for such storms, "catastrophic damage will occur" with electricity outages "for weeks or months."

The incident comes just days after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina. This new object was smaller and lower, and it's not clear where it came from.