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The Pioneer 10 was initially launched to study the environment around Jupiter and eventually... beyond. On this day in 1983, it crossed the orbit of…

Around October every year, a great orange migration of monarch butterflies moves from all over the United States east of the Rocky Mountains to the oyamel…

Jennie Schmidt of member station KPLU reports on the impending shooting of recidivist sea lions in Seattle. It's the same group that returns year after year to shipping locks in Puget Sound where steelhead trout swim upriver to spawn. There aren't many trout left, and wildlife biologists, having failed to dissuade the hungry sea lions, now want to shoot them.

A Wyoming-based conservationist funds a mercenary force to combat Sudanese wildlife poachers in the Central African Republic. The mercenaries have permission to shoot poachers on sight. NPR's Bob Edwards reports.

Wildlife biologist Mike Fay is walking from the center of Africa to the Atlantic for a project he calls Megatransect. Since there are no roads or footpaths in this wilderness, Fay follows animal trails, and records his adventures along the way for the National Geographic Radio Expeditions. NPR's Alex Chadwick has the first of three reports. More info at: www.npr.org/programs/RE/.

The tiny, plastic bits are used in consumer products such as skin exfoliants and soap. Environmentalists say when microbeads wash down the drain, they become food to fish and other wildlife.

NPR's David Baron reports that a new study suggests the time, effort, and money put into rescuing oil-soaked seabirds after oil spills is often for naught. An analysis of North American oil spills over the past three decades finds most rehabilitated birds die within two weeks after release to the wild. Wildlife rehabilitators say the study doesn't take into account recent improvements in treatment.

A team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists is in Spain to help with the cleanup of an oil spill from three weeks ago. The scientists also are advising local crews on ways to protect wildlife from the oil. NPR's Eric Niiler reports.

Elizabeth Shogren is an NPR News Science Desk correspondent focused on covering environment and energy issues and news.

The World Health Organization says it will release its report investigating the origins of COVID-19. It concludes that the virus likely came from a bat and a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely.