Starting practice at the hottest time of year, football players face dangers from the heat. Georgia high school heat rules have turned the state into a national model.

In Atlanta, leaders are working to build a memorial at an old brick factory site to honor victims of convict leasing. After the Civil War, thousands of Black men were forced to work at the factory.

City leaders are working to build a memorial at an old brick factory site to honor victims of convict leasing. After the Civil War, thousands of Black men were forced to work at the factory.

Former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia has died. He was 79 years old. He lost three limbs in Vietnam, but that didn't stop him from seeking higher office, where he advocated for veterans and the disabled.

There's a history of wildfire across America, a threat made worse by the warming climate. And more people are moving to fire-prone areas without realizing the danger.

Even as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense, more people are moving to fire-prone areas. The fastest such growth is in the Southeast, where few consider wildfire much of a threat.

The Southeast U.S. is one of the only places in the world where loggerhead sea turtles nest. But the state of Georgia is concerned they now face a threat from a federal change in ship canal dredging.

A brick factory that was key to building post-Civil War Atlanta used unpaid convict laborers. Now, some hope to block industrial development at the site and instead memorialize those mistreated there.

Power shut-off moratoriums imposed at the start of the pandemic are beginning to expire. Customers and utilities face a backlog of missed bills that may eventually be passed on to ratepayers.

When scientists boarded an Arctic research ship, the coronavirus had been detected only in China. Life now feels surreal as they socialize normally, trying to imagine the global pandemic shutdown.

The Mosaic expedition is an international project to study the warming Arctic. For a year, scientists are taking turns living in an icebreaker, frozen alongside an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean.

A massive 656-ft. cargo ship filled with thousands of new cars has been stuck, capsized off the Georgia coast for months. Now, crews are getting ready to dismantle the ship and remove it piecemeal.

Winters are warming faster than summers in many places, and colder parts of the U.S. are warming faster than hotter ones. The warming winter climate has year-round consequences across the country.

Honeybees normally settle in their hives and rest over winter. But this season has been unusually warm — and that's a challenge for beekeepers.

In Georgia, record numbers of loggerhead turtle nests have thrilled scientists working to save the endangered species.

Dozens of cities have ambitious plans to get their electricity from clean or renewable sources. But those goals can clash with power providers, whose priority remains economics, not climate change.

On Tybee Island, Ga., flooding is getting worse, and can even cut off residents from the mainland. The island is doing lots of things to control it, but some believe the island will one day disappear to the rising sea.

Archaeologists say a new dig site in northeast Georgia is revealing some surprising history about the state and about people who lived there long before the Europeans.

"The right whales are at a point where more are dying than are being born," biologist Clay George says. "That's just not sustainable long-term."

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The annual remembrance of civil rights leader at his church in Atlanta carried extra significance this year.