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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with reporter Laura Chung of the Sydney Morning Herald on how eastern Australia is coping with the worst flooding in decades less than two years after devastating bush fires.

A Gallup survey ranks countries based on degree of "social connectedness" people feel with friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, even strangers. We asked Mongolians why they think they top the list.

It's been just over a week since a train carrying hazardous material derailed and caused a fiery crash in Ohio. Some residents worried about health risks have filed a federal lawsuit.

The World Health Organization advisory group will include scientists from the U.S., China and two dozen other countries and will study various hypotheses, including the possibility of a lab leak.

The 78-year-old lawyer shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has birdshot lodged in his heart and had "a minor heart attack" Tuesday morning. Harry Whittington, was immediately moved back to ICU for further treatment.

Algal blooms have popped up all over the world over the past few years, threatening ecosystems and human health. While most blooms are harmless, others…

It's a cliché that in Germany the trains always run on time. But while that might have been true in the past, it seems it's not true anymore.

Gov. Andy Beshear in a Thursday update on COVID-19 in Kentucky reported 2,318 new cases and 20 newly reported deaths. Beshear emphasized the importance of…

Dinosaur researchers have achieved another first. They've discovered a way to tell the sex of a dinosaur. The secret is in the bone.

Ayesha Rascoe talks to journalist Egill Bjarnason about the ecological impacts of outdoor cats and the curfews some Icelandic towns have imposed on them.