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Maple sap is being gathered to make maple sugar. A crew in Keene, N.Y., has been working in an 80-acre sugar bush. They will tap 10,000 maple trees in the next few weeks.

The Mississippi River has been flooding for more than six weeks. Davenport, Iowa, has witnessed record flooding, especially in its downtown areas, and is bracing for more rain later this week.

Six months after Hurricane Maria pounded Puerto Rico, patience in the remote mountain village of Castañer is wearing thin. Mental anguish persists among people still waiting for reliable electricity.

Researchers are trying to figure out what makes a mosquito more likely to bite people infected with malaria.

Melissa Block talks to Mark Poloncarz, the Erie County Executive, about the snow situation in his area.

The Gulf of Mexico accounts for more than 20 percent of U.S. domestic oil production. But few see these operations far offshore.

Educators say the middle grades are a key time time to get kids jazzed about science, but many teachers say they lack the tools they need. In Chicago, a science museum is helping to fill the the gap.

"I'm never going to go to Mars but I've helped inspire ... the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars," Bradbury told Terry Gross in 1988. The science-fiction writer died Tuesday at the age of 91.

The bill addresses education, sexual violence and other key issues. "Many girls in my country don't even know what their rights are," says Kanchan Amatya of Nepal.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio holds the record for the longest U.S. space flight, but he wasn't trying to earn that title.