El Niño is on the way out after a record-breaking year of heat
El Niño helped drive global average temperatures to new records over the last year. Forecasters say it's waning, but that 2024 may still be one for the record books.
Environment
Oil industry could help the Biden administration tap 'invisible' green energy
The White House wants a twenty-fold increase in geothermal energy production to fight climate change and it's counting on the oil and gas industry for help.
After adopting its own Green New Deal, a college town sets a new target
Ithaca, N.Y., will require that 50% of the money spent on its energy transition and on major infrastructure projects is directed toward those residents most at risk from climate change.
A trek in the mountain forests of the Azores islands
Far out in the Atlantic Ocean is a chain of volcanic islands — a province of Portugal. We escape tor a mountain trek among the dairy cows and waterfalls of Sao Miguel island in the Azores.
Bridge projects across U.S. offer clues to what may replace Baltimore's fallen span
What a new bridge over Baltimore's Patapsco River will look like is still very much a matter of speculation. But one design stands out.
Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting
Michael Sanchez was testing out his new camera when he happened upon a feathered subject. The blue rock-thrush he photographed on the coast of northern Oregon last week has excited the birding world.
This week in science: biodegradable plastic, crops on Mars and deer vs. caribou
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about biodegradable plastic, simulating growing crops on Mars, and how deer are disrupting caribou populations.
As Kenya's flood toll rises, Human Rights Watch says officials must step up efforts
Human Rights Watch accuses Kenyan authorities of not responding adequately to ongoing floods that have killed more than 170 people since the start of the rainy season.
Triad chapter of environmental group lobbies legislators on both sides of the aisle
More than three dozen volunteers from North Carolina will set off for Raleigh next week to meet with lawmakers from both parties and discuss ways to protect t
A bizarre fungus is threatening two emerging cicada broods
NPR's Juana Summers talks with mycologist Matt Kasson about a strange fungus that is threatening certain broods of periodical cicadas.