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A rainy winter, has brought an early spring to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in Southern California. Wildflowers are in bloom. How can seeds survive years of drought and then put on such a display?

Mongolia is undergoing a dramatic transformation from a pastoral society to one whose economy is based on mining, especially copper and coal. With the change has come opportunity — and loss.

An annual report, comprising data from scientists across the globe, shows it was the warmest on records that date back 137 years. It also saw the highest sea levels and lowest polar sea ice.

For many Americans, the Fourth of July isn’t complete without fireworks. But if you’re thinking of firing off a few in San Diego County, don’t.

Four years of crippling drought has withered the agricultural economies of Great Plains states like Oklahoma. The USDA forecasts this year's wheat crop will be half what it would be in a good year.

The North County Transit District is hoping to hear this month about an $18 million federal grant that would help stabilize crumbling bluffs next to the railway line through Del Mar. It would cost billions to move the tracks to safer ground inland.

As California's drought persists and water levels dip to historically low levels, gold prospectors are taking to Northern California rivers hoping to spot something shiny.

Watch the New York rap icon perform "Paid In Full" and "Know The Ledge," as well as a new song for Marvel's Luke Cage, at the Tiny Desk.

The number of cholera outbreaks is on the rise — and vaccines are in short supply. Why is this ancient disease still a global health problem? Here's an explainer: What it is, how it spreads.

It appears California lawmakers are set to vote on emergency legislation that would allocate hundreds of millions of dollars for drought relief.