Countries from around the world will meet in a few weeks to try to reach agreement on limiting greenhouse gasses. Previous climate summits have been fraught with disagreement. Will the Paris meeting produce results? Jeffrey Brown speaks to UN climate chief Christiana Figueres about what to expect.

Fire Island, three miles off the shore of New York's Long Island, has long been a haven for the Northeast's LGBTQ community. The Pines were developed in the 1950s, making the enclave one of the youngest on the island. In the '60s, The Pines quickly went from a clothing-optional beach with a few coas...

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Hurricane Irma made landfall as a category 4 storm on Sunday. As the storm moved inland, it wreaked havoc, leaving millions without power.

Residents and tourists in Montauk, New York, ventured out to the beach Saturday morning to get a glimpse of some of the waves and wind from Hurricane Irene which was still hundreds of miles away on Aug. 27.

Since the first performance in 1995, the annual Fire Island Dance Festival has become the Island's most anticipated cultural event of the season. Fire Island Dance Festival features an eclectic mix of world-renowned and emerging dancers, dance companies and choreographers. The weekend-long festival ...

Recent excavations are revealing new discoveries about the towering statues of Easter Island. MSNBC's Dara Brown speaks with Dr. Jo Anne Van Tillburg, archaeologist and director of the Easter Island Statue Project, about the finding from recent excavations.

These images form the trailer of the movie named 'Birth of an island', which is produced by our friends from Saint Thomas Productions for a TV series 'The people of the volcanoes'. It took eight years to shoot thi incredible one-hour documentary.
Various pioneering experiments occurred during the ...

President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations on climate change at the UN Climate Change Summit on September 23, 2014 in New York.

Trees curb climate change directly by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Through the process of photosynthesis, forests offset 10 to 20 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions each year. Additionally, trees help protect against climate impacts such as flooding, which is getting w