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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel hit a herd of wild elephants in northeast Sri Lanka, killing two of the giant mammals and injuring one other as two of its tankers got derailed, authorities said.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel hit a herd of wild elephants in northeast Sri Lanka, killing two of the giant mammals and injuring one other as two of its tankers got derailed, authorities said.

For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast, an area of breathtaking beauty with stunning turquoise waters rich in biodiversity.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A fast-moving fire fed by strong winds burned two homes Friday and damaged several others in a hillside neighborhood in the city of Oakland , where hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate before more than 100 firefighters sto

The Yukon government says groundwater samples at the site where a mine's ore containment facility failed in June "continue to reveal high levels of cyanide.

RALEIGH, N.C.

Election day coincides with an atmospheric river system that is dumping heavy rain across much of the province.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — One of Central America’s longest rivers will be the primary beneficiary of El Salvador’s deal to refinance $1 billion of debt with support from the U.S. government amid a resurgence in so-called debt-for-nature swaps.

HELEN ISLAND, Palau (AP) — The handful of rangers who protect one of Earth's most remote and biologically diverse reefs have only each other for company for months at a time.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Newfoundland biologist with a specialty in mystery blobs that wash up on the island’s shores is hoping to get his hands on a specimen from the latest gooey arrivals. Steven Carr, a biology professor at Memorial University in St.