Trump Administration Moves To Expand Logging In Nation's Largest National Forest
Updated at 8:59 p.m. ET The Trump administration is proposing to exempt Alaska's Tongass National Forest from long-standing protections against logging and development, opening the door for potential...
View ArticleFast-Moving Wildfires And Strong Winds Cause Disruptions And Concern In...
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: A series of fast-moving wildfires and strong winds are causing disruptions and concern across California today. Hundreds of schools are closed....
View ArticleNature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying And Nobody Knows Why
On "good" bad days, the shells lie open at the bottom of the river, shimmering in the refracted sunlight. Their insides, pearl white and picked clean of flesh, flicker against the dark riverbed like a...
View ArticleAustralia's Wildfires Are Releasing Vast Amounts Of Carbon
Smoke from the ongoing firestorm in Australia is obscuring skies halfway around the world. Satellite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show a haze from the deadly fires...
View ArticleSome Hope Wildfires Will Change Australia's Relationship With Coal
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: Despite some recent rain, scores of fires are continuing to burn across Australia. And there is still a lot of fire season to go. Millions of...
View ArticleTrump EPA Dramatically Reduces Amount Of Waterways Under Federal Protection
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: While much of Washington focuses on the impeachment trial of President Trump, his administration keeps advancing his deregulatory agenda. Today...
View ArticleAustralia's Fire-Ravaged Forests Are Recovering. Ecologists Hope It Lasts
Updated on March 17 at 9:02 p.m. ET In the back corner of a burned lot in Australia's fire-ravaged South Coast stands a torched tree. It's uppermost branches reach into a cloudless sky, brittle and...
View Article'Stay Home,' Californians Are Told By Governor As Coronavirus Spreads
The nation's most-populated state is telling its residents to stay home except for essential travel. California Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement Thursday night, saying that more than half of the...
View ArticleBanks Agree With California To Stop Foreclosures For 90 Days In Coronavirus...
California has reached a deal with several financial institutions, including four of the country's five largest banks, to provide relief to homeowners affected by the coronavirus by suspending...
View ArticleFires Where They Are 'Not Supposed To Happen' In Australia's Ancient Rainforest
Nestled in the mountains of eastern Australia are fragments of an ancient world. Damp, dark and lush, they are some of the oldest ecosystems on Earth: temperate rainforests that have persisted since...
View Article'Hope Isn't A Strategy.' How To Prepare For A Natural Disaster During COVID-19
It's a situation nobody wants to imagine: a major earthquake, flood, fire or other natural disaster strikes while the U.S. is grappling with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. "Severe weather season,...
View ArticleAs States Reopen, Health Experts Seek To Understand Coronavirus's Early...
As health officials across the country try to slow the coronavirus pandemic, a growing body of evidence and research suggests the virus may have been silently spreading in different parts of the...
View ArticleFlights Into The Stratosphere Study Changes To Atmospheric Rivers
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Is the global pandemic making you wish you could take a quick break from planet Earth? Our next story will help you do just that. Over the...
View ArticleClimate Change And Deforestation Mean Earth's Trees Are Younger And Shorter
The forests of today will not be the forests of tomorrow. Rising temperatures, deforestation, development and climate-induced disasters are transforming the very makeup of Earth's forests, new research...
View Article'Like Poking a Beehive': The Worrisome Link Between Deforestation And Disease
In 2013, an 18-month-old boy got sick after playing near a hollow tree in his backyard in a remote West African village. He developed a fever and started vomiting. His stool turned black. Two days...
View Article'Tidal Wave' Of Power Shut-Offs Looms As Nation Grapples With Heat
Wykeisha Howe is trying to be thrifty. When her kids are uncomfortable in the sweltering Atlanta heat, she gives them freeze pops. Instead of cranking up the air conditioner, she uses a fan. Lunch and...
View Article'We Had To Get Out': Despite The Risks, Business Is Booming At National Parks
Stuck at home for months on end, plans canceled and upside down, the Reyes family felt like so many others during this pandemic-blighted summer: "We were just going crazy," says Ricardo Reyes. "We had...
View ArticleCalifornia Issues 1st Rolling Blackouts Since 2001 As Heat Wave Bakes Western...
California electricity providers instituted rolling blackouts Friday night — the first since 2001 — as an intense and prolonged heat wave settled over much of the Western U.S. Hundreds of thousands of...
View Article130 Degrees: Death Valley Sees What Could Be Record Heat
The temperature at Death Valley National Park hit a scorching 130 degrees on Sunday, marking what could be the hottest temperature on Earth since at least 1913, the National Weather Service says. Any...
View ArticleEverything Is Unprecedented. Welcome To Your Hotter Earth
The upshot of climate change is that everyone alive is destined to experience unprecedented disasters. The most powerful hurricanes, the most intense wildfires, the most prolonged heat waves and the...
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