Depending on weather and cloud cover, a SpaceX rocket launch in Cape Canaveral may be seen from Vero Beach to Port St. Lucie to Fort Pierce, Florida.

If you are farther south along the Indian River, look northeast. Playalinda Beach or Canaveral National Seashore is the closest spot to view liftoff because it is almost parallel to Launch Pad 39A.

The world’s largest river is parched. The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled by climate change, is drying up, with some stretches of the mighty waterway dwindling to shallow ...