By GREG BLUESTEIN (AP) COVINGTON, La. — Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze...
By Stan Lehman 2 April 2015 SÃO PAULO (Associated Press) – Brazil's biggest city has recorded its rainiest March since 2008, but the worst drought in more than 80 years has left reservoir levels critically low and water experts fear...
By Samantha Schmidt and Joel Achenbach 24 September 2017 JUNCOS, Puerto Rico (The Washington Post) – In the heat and humidity here in the central mountains, Meryanne Aldea fanned her bedridden mother with a piece of cardboard Sunday as the...