When towns along the Great Lakes get buried in drifts of blowing snow, like several have over the past few days, weather experts start talking about the "lake effect.”

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) - Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution won't reach an agreement in South Korea and are making plans to resume the talks next year.

SAINT-MALO, France (AP) - Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he’d be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the wind’s clean energy to transport goods across the Atlantic.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America's Yucatan peninsula.

GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) - A volcano erupted with lava spewing from a fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland late Wednesday evening. It was its seventh eruption since December.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, is getting a brand new subway system that will showcase archaeological discoveries made during construction that held up the project for decades.

NEW YORK (AP) - Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought.