Jason Beaubien

Hurricane Irma destroyed much of the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Thomas. Those who remain on the island are trying to figure out how to clean up and rebuild their homes and their livelihoods.

U.S. and British military planes and helicopters are joining people in private boats trying to get basic necessities in to areas that were flattened by Hurricane Irma more than a week ago.

Puerto Rico escaped the full impact of Hurricane Irma, but its perilous economic condition and crumbling infrastructure were affected nonetheless.

Due to a lack of functioning shelters in Port Arthur, Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is airlifting evacuees in military cargo planes to Dallas.

People in Port Arthur, Texas, are trying to find relief after flood waters from tropical storm Harvey swallowed much of the town. Some are trapped on roof tops while others sought shelter at a bowling alley.

Tropical storm Harvey is weakening as it moves up the western side of Louisiana. Emergency officials are responding to some calls for help, but say so far the storm hasn't been as hard on Louisiana as local officials feared it would be.

Southwest Louisiana is bracing for tropical storm Harvey to head their way. The storm is expected to make another landfall Tuesday night, and some streets in the Lake Charles area already are flooding.

The governor of Louisiana is telling people to prepare for more rain and winds from tropical storm Harvey. Some neighborhoods in Lake Charles, Louisiana, are already flooded.

Texas and Louisiana are steeling for more rain from now tropical storm Harvey. Rising temperatures factored into the size and impact of the storm.

Climate change is complicating the lives of subsistence rice farmers in Madagascar. For years, the wet and dry seasons arrived predictably. No more. To survive, farmers are looking to diversify.

On Sunday, South Sudan marks six years as independent country. Between its civil war and humanitarian crisis, things are so bad that anniversary celebrations were canceled.

So far this year, there have been only six cases of wild polio — and 21 cases of vaccine-derived polio, most of them in Syria.

More people are living today as refugees or displaced persons than at any time since World War II. A new United Nations Refugee Agency report says 65 million people are now uprooted from their homes.

Not since World War II have there been so many people who've fled their homes due to conflict. And children are hit especially hard by the crisis.

In Somalia, photographer Nichole Sobecki saw how the worsening drought is transforming people's lives.

More than 124,000 suspected cases have been reported over the past six weeks. And the health care system is collapsing.

A new report delivers familiar — but important — data about the nature of childhood around the world.

The breakaway republic has not received international recognition. Its foreign minister says that's slowing down delivery of aid to the drought-stricken territory.

It's called the Border Wall Funding Act of 2017. And it would place a new tax on money being wired to Latin America and the Caribbean.

The new leader, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia, will be expected to reform the bureaucratic agency and deal with the world's growing health problems.