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The races for governor in Missouri and North Carolina may tell us if the coronavirus can make or break a state leader. Meanwhile, political strategy in Montana has tempered talk of COVID-19.

Environmental groups in Northern California are suing to stop a winery from leveling 154 acres of coast redwoods and Douglas firs to make way for grapevines. As climate change heats up California's interior valley, the wine industry is creeping toward the coast, where majestic redwoods grow.

Yes, viewing a total solar eclipse can be beautiful and life-altering. But so can many other things in life.

A controversial provision that would have allowed for the sale of national forest and other public lands is likely to be removed from a mega budget bill now before the U.S. Senate.

Newly discovered kelp fossils peg their existence to 32 million years ago. These fossils may help explain how the Pacific Ocean's underwater 'forests' came to be.

Reporter Alix Spiegel reports on a growing movement in cities across the country -- Urban Exploration. She accompanies three explorers into an unused New York City subway tunnel. These urban explorers seek out the dark, forbidden and difficult to reach corners of the city -- defunct drainage systems, "no access" hotel roofs, the occasional city hall -- those places least accessible. The explorers describe the places as the frontiers of the urban landscape. The wear dark suits and ties -- "urban camouflage" and share their findings and adventures with other urban explorers via the Internet.

Track and field gets underway at the Olympics Friday, with American sprinters Marion Jones and Maurice Greene competing in qualifying rounds. But the big track news was made OFF the track. As NPR's Howard Berkes reports, the mysterious French runner Marie-Jose Perec left Sydney a day before her first heat, claiming an intruder forced his way into her hotel room and threatened her. Perec, the defending Olympic champion in the 200 and 400 meters, avoided all public appearances in the weeks before the Games, communicating only through her Website.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on how the war in Liberia has affected the country's Lebanese community. The Lebanese have been in Liberia for about a hundred years, and they control much of business. The war has driven most of the original community of fifteen thousand Lebanese out of the country. About two hundred are holding out, however, including two Lebanese who have kept the capital's only hotel running despite the city's plunge into anarchy over the past month.

would have on the major hubs it serves and on the business and vacation travelers who use those hubs. Not only would American Airlines, its employees. and the cities in which they live lose money. But cruise ship lines, hotels, and resorts in other places would sustain losses as well.

The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade claims responsibility for an attack that kills at least five Israelis in northern Israel. The attack comes after a pair of attacks on Israeli targets in Kenya; 11 people are killed in a suicide car bombing at a hotel popular with Israeli tourists, and two missiles are fired at an Israeli charter flight leaving an airport in Mombasa. Hear NPR's Linda Gradstein. Nov. 28, 2002