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A Colombian worker checks the plastic protection cover over a banana bunch on a plantation in Aracataca, Colombia. A dreaded fungus that has destroyed banana plantations in Asia has now spread to Latin America.

Devastating Banana Fungus Arrives In Colombia, Threatening The Fruit's Future

A fungus that has destroyed banana plantations in Asia is now in Latin America. The disease moves slowly, but there's no cure, and it could mean calamity for the continent's banana industry.

Police officers remove a tent left by the homeless during efforts to sanitize neighborhoods to control the spread of hepatitis A, in San Diego., Sept. 25, 2017.

UN Observer Calls For 'Moratorium' On Criminalizing Homelessness In San Diego

For the past three days, Canadian attorney Leilani Farha, the United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, has been touring the streets of San Diego, talking to people dealing with the city's unprecedented housing crisis.

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

Airs Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 from 8-11 p.m. on KPBS 2

Sherrie Rubin and her son Aaron make presentations together about the opioid crisis.

Opioid Addiction Educator Sherrie Rubin Named KPBS Community Hero

Rubin founded a nonprofit to reduce and prevent opioid addiction and overdoses.

Neanderthals are believed to have relied on dangerous close range hunting techniques, using non-projectile weapons like the thrusting spears depicted in this artist's rendition.

Maybe Neanderthals Weren't Quite So Nasty And Brutish

New research finds they sustained skull injuries at about the same rate as early modern humans. "I definitely think that it's evidence these guys were not beating each other up," one expert says.

In this photo provided by the Ventura County Fire Department, firefighters respond to a boat fire off the coast of Southern California on Monday. The U.S. Coast Guard said it launched several boats to help over two dozen people "in distress."

25 Victims Found, 9 People Missing After Diving Boat Catches Fire In California

Twenty bodies were recovered, five are still to be recovered and nine people remain missing, according to The Associated Press, citing the Coast Guard. A total of 39 people were on the boat.

In her new book, Barbara Lipska describes surviving cancer that had spread to her brain, and how the illness changed her cognition, character and, ultimately, her understanding of the mental illnesses she studies.

'The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind' Returns From Madness

Neuroscientist Barbara Lipska describes in a new memoir surviving 20 brain tumors, and what the eight-week nightmare of psychological symptoms taught her about mental illnesses she's long studied.

Northern California's River Fire tore through a canyon near the town of Lakeport early last week, filling orange-tinged skies with smoke for miles around.

California Wildfires Reignite Old Trauma For Survivors Of Last Year's Blazes

In fire-torn parts of the West, some people who are now safe struggle mightily when they again smell smoke or see an orange haze in the sky. That's normal, say therapists. And you can quench the fear.

Beekeeper Hatidze Muratova lives in a ruggedly mountainous area of Macedonia. She has a simple rule: When you harvest honey, you only take half — and leave the other half for the bees.

The Beekeeper Of 'Honeyland' Knows All Too Well: Respect Nature, Or Get Stung

Hatidze Muratova lives in a remote area of Macedonia and has one simple rule: When you harvest honey, you take half — and leave the other half for the bees. An elegant new documentary tells her story.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shakes hands with Vice President Pence in Warsaw, Poland, on Sept. 1.

For Pence, Impeachment Inquiry Will Test A Political Path Shaped By Faith

As Vice President Pence's role in the Ukraine story comes under increased scrutiny, how might his biography inform how he navigates the crisis in the White House?

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