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Crazy ants vs. Fire ants: Who's winning? (+video)

Crazy ants are taking over areas once occupied by fire ants in the South. The sting of Crazy ants isn't as painful and migrate slowly. But Crazy ants multiply faster.

Brazil's gun control debate: Opponents try to shoot holes in disarmament law

Google Earth Engine unveils how Earth has altered

Saul Bass directed a movie about ants taking over the world. Could that really happen?

Meet the floating plant that has Lake Victoria's economy in a chokehold

Was Africa the motherland of dinosaur predecessors?

Culture Cafe Monkees announce tour will cross the US this summer (+video)

Earth permanently deformed by really big earthquakes

Can a blimp curb drug trafficking in Latin America? The US hopes so.

Ford's $1.6 billion earnings beat expectations

Earth's cooling came to sudden halt in 1900, study shows

South American leaders likely to back Venezuela's Maduro in emergency meeting

Ship on fire in Antarctica: Crew of 97 rescued

Italians move northward to trade 'la dolce vita' for 'das süsse Leben'

Antarctic ice tells conflicting story about climate change's role in big melt

For some farmers, a return to animal power

Face-sized tarantula lives in trees in Sri Lanka

Pope Francis: representative of God - and Latin America?

An American pope? What could help, or hinder, two cardinals' chances.

Giant African snail killed to protect Australian crops

Latin America Monitor Cops unite in Central America: New deal allows cross-border pursuits

Malvinas curriculum helps Argentina revive Falklands claim

Can Nicaragua protect the waters it won?

Global News Blog A changed Venezuela after Chávez?

After Chávez, politicians cannot ignore Venezuela's poor (+video)