2+ hour, 20+ min ago  (792+ words) From our collaborating partner "Living on Earth," public radio's environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with botanist and author Beronda Montgomery. When plant biologist Beronda Montgomery sat down to write what became a personal memoir mixed with…...

2+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1686+ words) Pull! Pull!" shouts Scott Dexter, chanting the cadence for eight men gripping a rope. Pull!" With each pull, a 172-pound male loggerhead sea turtle is hoisted higher into the air. It takes several hoists to lift the turtle about 35 feet…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (586+ words) It is also changing in ways almost no one can see. What the eye misses, the data captures: a bay sliding steadily from an estuary to something closer to the open ocean, a transition the study's authors say sea-level rise…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (711+ words) At the end of May, eight endangered Asiatic lions died at a national park in India. Officials feared the animals had succumbed to a tick-borne parasitic disease that previously killed lions in the area." But over the weekend, the Gujarat…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1793+ words) ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa'James Hepp is sick of excuses. The 36-year-old farmer manages about 1, 600 acres of corn, soy and small grains in northern Iowa. He keeps a close eye on his bottom line and says he wants to build a business…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1053+ words) SEATTLE'Tribal bison were on an extraordinary roll before the second term of President Donald J. Trump. Herds were expanding across Indian Country, as was Native consumption of bison meat, which is less fatty than beef. Science has confirmed that bison are…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1208+ words) While their dazzling bright lights are visible from space, much of the global squid fleet operates in total darkness." Hundreds of former Indonesian and Filipino crew members working onboard squid ships have exposed widespread environmental crimes and human rights abuses…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (638+ words) The destruction of wetlands in the United States has increased the amount of flood insurance claims by $10 billion over the past 40 years, a phenomenon expected to worsen in tandem with climate change, according to new research." The peer-reviewed study, conducted…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago  (675+ words) Nearly three dozen young lab-grown elkhorn corals were outplanted onto reefs in Florida's Dry Tortugas National Park this spring, including a group of "Flondurans," marking the first time this experimental cross-breed of Florida and Honduran elkhorn corals was introduced to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (806+ words) Democrat Administrations have weaponized the definition of navigable waters to seize more power from American farmers, landowners, entrepreneurs, and families," said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin in a press release when the agency proposed the new definition of Waters of the…...