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The warming climate has increased the number of winter ticks in Maine's north woods. Biologists are tracking calf mortality.

A year ago the Yellowstone River had its biggest flood in centuries. What that means for its world famous trout fishery is just now becoming clear.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Stanley Gehrt of the Cook County Coyote Project about coyotes biting a 5-year-old boy and a man in Chicago. Cook County is home to 4,000 of the animals.

More farmers in Britain are joining a climate change activist group. U.K. farmer Dagan James tells NPR's Rachel Martin that farmers are increasingly feeling the effects of global warming.

MIT researchers unveiled a Soft Robotic Fish prototype in hopes of boosting aquatic observation. It can wiggle like a fish, dive to 18 meters, work autonomously — and hopefully avoid getting eaten.

The anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy and some of his followers go on trial in Las Vegas, three years after he led an armed standoff with federal agents over cattle grazing on public land. Jury selection starts Monday.

Roughly 7,500 people have sought shelter after Hurricane Harvey at state parks in Texas.

The Nevada rancher's arrest is a setback for his self-styled militia supporters and their anti-federal lands fight. The charges stem from a standoff with federal agents at his ranch in 2014.

Anger erupted in front of the county courthouse in Burns, Ore., Monday as anti-government protesters in town for a rally met a wall of locals sick of outsiders trying to start a movement there.

Kristine Tompkins, whose husband founded The North Face clothing company, tells Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her decision to donate a million acres of land she owns in Patagonia to Chile's government.