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Swamp Apes Joe 'Mojo' Detre and Tom Aycock dig a hole on the side of a levee looking for Burmese python nests in this undated photo.

Florida Veterans Fight A New Enemy: Invasive Snakes In The Everglades

Removing pythons helps the ecology of the Everglades — and helps veterans transition from the battlefield to civilian life.

The Rev. Michael Jossel remembers excitement about the mule train when he was a teenager. He says people were caught up in the belief that change was going to come, and willing to get fired for supporting the campaign.

How A Mule Train From Marks, Miss., Kicked Off MLK's Poor People Campaign

Martin Luther King Jr. chose Marks as a starting point for the economic justice fight because of the entrenched poverty he saw there. Today, poverty remains a challenge in Marks.

The Zoo Is A Terrifying Place In 'Fierce Kingdom'

Gin Phillips' new novel — which follows a young mother trying to keep her child safe during a mass shooting at a zoo — explores the way violence can be a safe abstraction for kids, or cruelly real.

<strong> </strong>The Sardar Sweet Shop in Varanasi, India,<strong> </strong>was built around a neem tree considered too holy to cut down. Customers flow in and out, barely noticing the imposing tree. In rural parts, people use the neem tree's leaves to repel insects, the sap for stomach pain and the branches to brush their teeth. As for the candy shop sweets, Diane Cook says they were "fabulous."

PHOTOS: Trees That Tell Stories About The World We Live In

In Wise Trees, a book by photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, you'll see a holy tree in the middle of an Indian candy shop, a communal tree in Mozambique, a tree of tragedy in Cambodia.

A 2017 photo from Arts District Liberty Station's Second Saturday Cinema.

Summer 2017 Guide To Outdoor Movies In San Diego

Summer's almost here, and that means it's outdoor movie season in San Diego.

John Pierpont Morgan (center), surrounded by a group of men. (undated photo)

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Gilded Age

Airs Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Syrian rebel fighters and civilians are evacuated from pockets of eastern Aleppo on Wednesday.

In East Aleppo, Final Evacuations Continue As Regime Prepares To Enter Enclave

Remaining rebels and civilians in east Aleppo wait in freezing weather for transportation out of the city; a few hundred people refuse to leave. Pro-regime forces might enter as soon as this evening.

Brazil's Chapecoense players pose for pictures during their 2016 Copa Sudamericana semifinal against Argentina's San Lorenzo in Chapeco, Brazil, on Nov. 23. Most of the players on the team died in a plane crash in Colombia late Monday.

Plane Carrying Brazilian Soccer Players Crashes In Colombia, Killing 76

The Chapecoense soccer team was flying to Medellin for a tournament when the charter plane crashed in a mountainous area late Monday night. Five people survived the crash.

In East Aleppo, Final Evacuations Continue As Regime Prepares To Enter Enclave

Remaining rebels and civilians in east Aleppo wait in freezing weather for transportation out of the city; a few hundred people refuse to leave. Pro-regime forces might enter as soon as this evening.

An Aedes aegypti mosquito, known to be a carrier of the Zika virus, acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute of Sao Paulo University in Brazil, Jan. 18, 2016.

South Park Resident Tests Negative For Zika Virus

Mosquito spraying last week in South Park turned out to be for naught, as tests on an area resident who showed symptoms of either the Zika virus or another tropical disease came back negative.

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