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ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of climate change . And it's getting lower on polar bears.

WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone , snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower.

Cleaning up the garden — or “putting the garden to bed” — has traditionally been a fall endeavor.

ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of climate change . And it's getting lower on polar bears.

ROME (AP) — Two foreign tourists, a 5-month-old baby and his grandmother, were missing on Tuesday after floods hit Italy’s central Tuscany region overnight, firefighters said.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Heavy rains lashed the Cayman Islands on Tuesday as forecasters warned that a nearby cluster of thunderstorms could soon become a major hurricane en route to the southeast U.S.

ROME (AP) — Two foreign tourists, a 5-month-old baby and his grandmother, were missing on Tuesday after floods hit Italy’s central Tuscany region overnight, firefighters said.

PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane John struck Mexico’s southern Pacific coast with life-threatening flood potential after growing into a major hurricane in a matter of hours.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane watches were issued for parts of Cuba and Mexico on Monday as a cluster of storms south of the Cayman Islands was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane while moving north toward the U.S.

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — On a cloudy late August morning, Burke Hales was on a boat a mile off the central Oregon coast, pointing to a sandy beach along the forested shoreline.