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Chris Bentley/Here & NowEven when it's freezing and covered in snow, Minnesota's Sax-Zim Bog attracts birders from around the world. They flock there hoping to spot owls, hawks and rare songbirds that spend most of their time in northern Canada. -
Rick Bowmer/APThe only lithium mine operating in the United States is in Nevada. But there are plans to open more to meet the demand for lithium-battery storage.
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Many farmers have had to fallow land as a state law comes into effect limiting their access to water. There's now a push to develop some of that land … into solar farms. -
An enormous solar project is moving forward in California, on land that farmers have had to keep fallow as the state restricts over-pumping the aquifers used to irrigate crops.
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More than a year since Hurricane Helene devastated the Southeast, the region is dealing with a slow-moving, second disaster: mold.
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People are digging out more than a foot of snow from Maryland to Maine. -
Construction for the Transco gas pipeline project is expected to begin in March. -
Nearly every North Carolina county is now in moderate to severe drought as the spring wildfire season ramps up. -
A winter storm is lashing New England on Monday, bringing high winds and heavy snowfall.
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NPR's Erika Ryan reports from the site of one of the nation's largest sewage spills ever — just outside of Washington, D.C. — in January.
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More than 240 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Potomac River when a major pipeline collapsed in mid-January.
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The federal government plans to pay to keep coal plants open longer. It recently selected Duke Energy’s two-unit coal-burning plant to receive up to $34 million.
