Many big US cities now answer mental health crisis calls with civilian teams —...
DENVER (AP) — Christian Glass was a geology geek, a painter and a young man beset by a mental health crisis when he called...
‘Gran Turismo’ and ‘Barbie’ are neck-and-neck at the box office
NEW YORK (AP) — “Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story” and “Barbie” are in a dead heat for the box-office crown, with the...
Competitors get down and dirty at Britain’s bog snorkeling championships
LONDON (AP) — Intrepid athletes donned snorkels and slithered through slime on Sunday during one of Britain’s quirkiest sporting events: the World Bog Snorkeling...
Removing Fukushima’s melted nuclear fuel will be harder than the release of plant’s wastewater
OKUMA, Japan (AP) — At a small section of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s central control room, the treated water transfer switch is on....
Environmental groups recruit people of color into overwhelmingly white conservation world
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Arianna Barajas never thought of herself as the outdoors type. The daughter of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Chicago's...
Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the US
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico...
Takeaways from AP’s investigation into sexual harassment and assault at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Many women who work at McMurdo Station, the main United States research base in Antarctica, say the isolated environment...
Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The howling winds and perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter were easing to a frozen spring when mechanic Liz...
At Fukushima Daiichi, decommissioning the nuclear plant is far more challenging than water release
FUTABA, Japan (AP) — For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks...
Riders in various states of undress cruise Philadelphia streets in 14th naked bike ride
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Hundreds of people in various states of dress -- or undress – set out Saturday for a ride through some of...