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How do you clean all the sand on a beach? A group of volunteers didn’t do it grain by grain, but took on the task screen by screen.

The Alabama Legislature is holding a special session this week to change the state's congressional map. The move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened a central part of the Voting Rights Act.

Some people have died and rescuers are searching for 34 more Monday morning after a fire broke out aboard a dive boat off of Santa Cruz Island.

An oil spill off Huntington Beach has released more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil into coastal waters — killing marine life and fouling wetlands.

The storm is expected to make landfall north of Veracruz, where it could dump as much as 15 inches of rain, causing "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides."

An underwater volcano, some 300 miles off the Oregon Coast, is providing clues about how to better understand — and predict — eruptions.

A visit to Alaska's Monashka Bay went downhill quickly for three friends and their two dogs after strong winds pushed their pink flamingo raft out into the ocean.

We look ahead to Oregon's 2019 Legislative session. And we talk with an Oregon woman who has started a foster care agency to provide behavioral rehabilitation care for youth.

The storm brought heavy rain to Central America, where more than 20 people died. The storm is headed toward Louisiana, where Gov. John Bel Edwards said, "I'm not going to tell you I am not concerned."

Hurricane Dennis has left Cuba and is now on track to blow into the Gulf Coast between Florida and Louisiana. NPR's Tom Gjelten is in Cuba and describes the damage the hurricane did to the island nation.