A Ukrainian nuclear plant is facing a water shortage
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant used a large reservoir for cooling water. Now that reservoir is rapidly draining.
Environment
How residents of Baltimore are coping with the smoke coming from Canada
Homeless shelters handed out masks and schools cancelled activities as Baltimore residents endured another day of smoky air from wildfires in Canada.
A statewide survey of California's bumblebees hopes to help conserve them
NPR's Ailsa Chang searches coastal California for wild bumblebees with conservation biologist Leif Richardson, one of the leaders of the California Bumble Bee Atlas.
3 lessons from the Western U.S. for dealing with wildfire smoke
How bad does the air get inside your house? What should schools do about recess? Western states have grappled with all that before.
James Watt, sharp-tongued interior secretary under Reagan, dies at 85
The Reagan administration's sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary was beloved by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists. Watt even managed to offend Beach Boys fans.
Here's how NPR reporters around the world are dealing with air pollution
As Canada and parts of the U.S. confront declines in air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, NPR reporters in Asia, Latin America and Africa share their experiences.
Advice from the West Coast to the East Coast on staying safe under smoky skies
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery about advice she's learned living under smoky skies after 22 years in San Francisco.
Purple is the new red: How alert maps show when we are royally ... hued
Everyone knows that red means danger, but how did purple become a cautionary color? At an EPA conference in the late 1990s, attendees nearly came to blows over color coding on the Air Quality Index.
India is now the world's most populous nation. And that's not necessarily a bad thing
Population growth has long been a source of worry in India, which now has more people than China: 1.46 billion residents. But some experts are optimistic about the impact of this population boom.
How to stay safe from the smoke that's spreading from the Canadian wildfires
From particulate matter to the AQI, here's what you need to know to protect yourself as the smoky haze settles over much of the East Coast.