The World Lost Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife In 50 Years. We Are to Blame
Human activities have caused the world's wildlife populations to plummet by more than two-thirds in the last 50 years, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund. The decline is happening...
View ArticleWhy Firefighting Alone Won't Stop Western Mega-Fires
It's become a near-annual occurrence. A massive wildfire forces thousands of people to flee their homes. Exhausted firefighters warn of its speed and intensity. Smoke smothers cities and states...
View ArticleSmoky Skies Are The New Normal. Are They Making Us Sick?
Ariel Kinzinger had a headache. Clark Brinkman coughed and wheezed. LaNesha Collins, feeling physically fine, was frustrated by another day mostly trapped inside looking out at a sepia sun, in...
View ArticleThere's A Lot At Stake For The Climate In The 2020 Election
Despite the cascade of other crises this year, climate change has emerged as a key election issue. Two-thirds of Americans want the government to do more about it, and the same share of Biden...
View ArticleGray Wolves To Be Removed From Endangered Species List
Gray wolves, a species that has long been vilified and admired, will no longer receive federal protections under the Endangered Species Act in the Lower 48 U.S. states, the Trump administration...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Denial Still Rampant In Some Coronavirus Hot Spots
Signs posted at the entrance to the grocery store in northwest Montana told customers to wear a mask. Public health officials in Flathead County urged the same. Coronavirus infection rates here are...
View ArticleU.S. Heads Into Winter Months With Coronavirus Cases Surging
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The vaccine news offers hope for the spring or the summer, but does not change the short-term situation. The United States, still the world...
View ArticleBiden Pledges To Conserve Nearly A Third Of U.S. Land And Water By 2030
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: President-elect Biden is making a bold promise on the environment. His administration will work to conserve nearly one-third of all U.S. land...
View ArticleIn 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,...
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