In Historic Move, Biden To Pick Native American Rep. Haaland As Interior...
Updated at 9:37 p.m. ET In a historic first, President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Department of the Interior, his transition team announced Thursday evening. If...
View ArticleBiden Moves To Have U.S. Rejoin Climate Accord
Updated 5:45pm Eastern Time In one of his first acts in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to have the United States rejoin the Paris climate agreement, the largest...
View ArticleBiden Hits 'Pause' On Oil And Gas Leasing On Public Lands And Waters
Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET In an effort to slow the nation's contribution to climate change, President Biden has signed an executive order to begin halting oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters....
View ArticleInterior Nominee Deb Haaland Faces Tough Questions On Climate Goals
President Joe Biden's historic pick to manage the nation's public lands and natural resources promised to strike a balance between fossil fuel and renewable energy development during her confirmation...
View ArticleAs Fires Worsen, A Mental Health Crisis For Those Battling Them
Somewhere near his fifty-sixth straight hour of chasing flames, CalFire Captain Matt Newberry and his crew were hitting a wall. They'd been dispatched to the wildfire days earlier in the middle of the...
View ArticleStudy Finds Wildfire Smoke More Harmful To Humans Than Pollution From Cars
Tens of millions of Americans experienced at least a day last year shrouded in wildfire smoke. Entire cities were blanketed, in some cases for weeks, as unprecedented wildfires tore across the Western...
View ArticleCOMIC: How One COVID-19 Nurse Navigates Anti-Mask Sentiment
Agnes Boisvert, an ICU nurse at St. Luke's hospital in downtown Boise, Idaho, spends every day trying to navigate between two worlds. One is a swirl of beeping monitors, masked emotion and death; the...
View ArticleBiden Moves To Make It Illegal (Again) To Accidentally Kill Migratory Birds
The Biden administration is moving to restore protections for migratory birds that were loosened under former President Donald Trump — a back-and-forth centering on the question of when it's illegal to...
View ArticleDeb Haaland Confirmed As 1st Native American Interior Secretary
Deb Haaland, a member of New Mexico's Laguna Pueblo, has become the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. The Senate voted 51-40 Monday to confirm the Democratic congresswoman to...
View ArticleCalifornia Has A New Idea For Homes At Risk From Rising Seas: Buy, Rent, Retreat
At a normal tide on a normal day on the Southern California coast, ankle-high waves glide over a narrow strip of gold sand. On one side sits the largest body of water in the world. On the other, a row...
View ArticleOnce Imperiled, America's Bald Eagle Populations Are Soaring
The number of bald eagles in the lower 48 U.S. states — a population once on the brink of extinction — has quadrupled in the last dozen years to more than 316,000, federal wildlife officials say,...
View ArticleReaching Back To The New Deal, Biden Proposes A Civilian Climate Corps
With college classes going online because of COVID-19, Joe Spofforth put his double major in political economies and educational studies on hold to move West and find work. When the pandemic was over,...
View ArticleClimate Change's Impact On Hurricane Sandy Has A Price: $8 Billion
When Hurricane Sandy swept up the Eastern Seaboard in 2012, it left a trail of damage from Florida to Maine. Subways were inundated in New York City. Hurricane-force winds tore across New Jersey....
View ArticleThe Deadliest Fire In American History Happened In A Place You Wouldn't Expect
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Record drought and heat are setting up another precedent-setting fire season in the western U.S., but the deadliest wildfire in American...
View ArticleWildfire Risk Is Growing Everywhere, Even As More Americans Move Into Harm's Way
There's a forgotten history that should serve as a warning — wildfire isn't unique to the West. Now the warming climate is increasing the risk of major wildfires across America. And more people are...
View ArticleSheltering Inside May Not Protect You From The Dangers Of Wildfire Smoke
When wildfire smoke descends over a city or town, as it does increasingly often for tens of millions of people in the American West, public health officials have a simple message: Go inside, shut doors...
View ArticleA look at the ecological damage of the oil spill of California's coast
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Southern California, investigators are looking at whether a German cargo ship was involved in the oil spill that's now polluting beaches,...
View ArticleClimate change is bad for your health. And plans to boost economies may make...
It may seem obvious: Heat kills. Wildfires burn. Flooding drowns. But the sprawling health effects of a rapidly warming world can also be subtle. Heat sparks violence and disrupts sleep. Wildfire smoke...
View ArticleThe U.N. says climate impacts are getting worse faster than the world is...
As world leaders meet in Glasgow to try to curb planet-warming emissions an uncomfortable reality underlies their efforts: They've gathered on a shrinking island in a rising sea, where temperatures are...
View ArticleA famously far-ranging gray wolf is found dead in Southern California
Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, has been found dead near a roadway a little more than an hour's drive north...
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