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As the hurricane season starts, many homeowners along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts are being rocked by soaring insurance rates. In Florida, more than two dozen insurers have left the state. From member station WGCU in Fort Myers, Fla., Russell Lewis reports.

Last week a boat full of migrants seeking a better life in Europe sank in Greek waters. With hundreds missing and dozens confirmed dead, Greek and European authorities are facing criticism.

Workers are beginning to rebuild the collapsed section of Interstate 95 outside Philadelphia. Construction is expected to take weeks or months, and have ramifications up and down the East Coast.

New Jersey through Massachusetts could see 2 feet of snow. New York City's mayor said the city had not "seen a storm like this in a decade."

El Nino didn't deliver the monster rains many Californians were hoping for but it wasn't a total bust. The weather system raised ocean temperatures off the coast and led to some extremely high tides.

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of New England is the size of Connecticut and has been called an "underwater Yellowstone" and "a deep sea Serengeti."

Aid agencies are suspending some of the work they do at detention centers holding migrants in Greece. International Rescue Committee's Greece country director, Panos Navrozidis, explains why.

Illinois farmer Joe Zumwalt's soybeans, corn and wheat can't go down the Mississippi River because the Coast Guard has shut down a 5-mile stretch. Tariff conflicts have also affected his business.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to longtime Big Sur resident Erin Gafill about the recent landslide that closed a portion of Pacific Coast Highway and has changed life for residents.

California is heating up. That heat is driving an increase in the land burned by California wildfires every year as the arid weather dries out forests along the North Coast and Sierra Nevada, according to new research that published this week in the journal Earth’s Future. Summer forest fires are pushing up the annual burn rates across … Continue reading Study: Climate Change a Leading Driver of California’s Wildfires →