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David Welna is NPR's national security correspondent.

Carrie Kahn is NPR's International Correspondent based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Tamara Keith is a Senior Political Correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

On World Rhino Day, people across the globe celebrate the rhinoceros and raise awareness to save all five species.

A coalition of ninety environmental groups and over twenty community leaders in Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky are urging President Obama to block the...

Kentucky is among 30 states that will receive federal funds to boost monitoring for a deadly bat disease. Biologists from the state have already been working to document the spread of White Nose Syndrome, which is a deadly fungus that nearly always kills the bats it infects. U.S. Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Ann Froschauer says the additional federal funds will augment that effort. “This support will help the state as well as the larger national response effort in trying to better understand how the disease is affecting our North American bat populations,” she said. Thirty states will receive grant funding, but the disease has only been found in 19 of them. “Some of these states where White Nose Syndrome is not yet, will be using this money to try to help in advance and preparation and expectation that the disease may reach them, trying to figure out sort of where their bat populations are, the distribution, what kinds of bats they have,” Froschauer said. White Nose Syndrome has already killed about 5.5 million bats in North America. In Kentucky, it’s been found in Trigg and Breckenridge counties. The state’s share of the grant funding is $32,000.

Preliminary results show that an experimental “fish fence” installed to block invasive Asian carp from entering Lake Barkley in western Kentucky is effective. A local official who has fought the invasive species for years is touting the initial data as a potential “game-changer.”

Burnsville, Minn., officials have urged residents and owners of pet goldfish not to dispose of them in local lakes, warning that doing so causes major environmental impacts.

Vic Fazio, a 20-year congressional Democrat from California, rose to become an influential party leader in the House. He was 79.

Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed five bills Monday aimed at stripping away several powers his office has historically held. Beshear, a Democrat, called the…