Fears in Miami That Port Expansion Will Destroy Reefs

As Miami prepares to dredge its port to accommodate supersize freighters, environmentalists are making a last-ditch effort to protect threatened coral reefs and acres of sea grass that they say would be destroyed by the expansion.

Why Japan’s Typhoon Talas Was So Deadly?

Typhoon Talas, a storm that swept across Japan over the weekend, has taken a terrible toll; the storm and its lingering effects have been the deadliest in seven years for the country. Much of the death and destruction is concentrated in three provinces in the island nation’s southwest.