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It's the world's biggest coral reef system, home to some 400 types of coral. In the past 18 months, rising ocean temperatures helped cause the single greatest loss of coral ever recorded there.

That's the situation in Senegal. The government has promised to buy new machines. But one cancer specialist says there isn't enough attention given to the disease.

A massive summer repair project began Monday at Penn Station, the nation's busiest train station.

Public opinion on health care is often inconsistent, even incoherent.

Haider al-Abadi says ISIS has been driven from its Mosul stronghold, but the prime minister must now knit together a country riven by sectarian tensions and foreign sponsors.

Rome is home to more public drinking fountains — nearly 3,000 — than any other city in the world. But the city is turning off the taps as Italy faces a severe drought.

NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over the Great Red Spot, a swirling storm on Jupiter, on Monday. Scientists are hoping to gain a better understanding of the storm and why it persists.

A Confederate flag came down at the South Carolina Statehouse weeks after the murders of nine people at a historically black church. Such symbols continue to generate controversy.

In light of Friday's meeting between President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin, NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Sen. James Lankford on the state of U.S.-Russian diplomacy.

An exhibit at the Huntington Library shows visitors how famed science fiction writer Octavia Butler created a career for herself in a genre that had few women and even fewer African-Americans.