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Amy Walters is a producer for NPR based at NPR West in Los Angeles.

Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News, where he is frequently heard as a news analyst and writes regularly for NPR.org.

Climate change in the West is luring rainbow trout to higher elevations, where the fish are mating with native cutthroats, genetic evidence shows. Biologists and anglers worry cutthroats could vanish.

Malcie Smith of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds tells NPR's Scott Simon how to best attract birds to your garden or balcony this spring.

Two decades of peace — an anomaly in the turbulent Horn of Africa — are paying off for Somaliland, Somalia's secessionist northwestern enclave. Although not officially recognized as an independent nation, Somaliland is attracting investors, including a $17 million Coca-Cola bottling plant.

For now, the court will be evenly divided between conservative and liberal justices. In the next week, the Court will hear cases involving endangered species, the death penalty and immigration law.

A legal memo from the Department of the Interior declares that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act applies only to purposeful actions that kill migratory birds.

A team of elite mountain climbers undertakes a grueling trek across Tibet's Chang Tang Plateau. Their goal? To find and protect a rare animal's birthing ground. NPR's Alex Chadwick tells their story. Trace their journey through expedition photos and video.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to place and test barriers and deterrents to stop the spread of invasive carp species along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and other connected waterways, something that advocates trying to combat the fish say has been years in the making.

A Virginia state herpetologist says finding the mutant copperhead in a resident's yard earlier this month is an "extraordinarily rare" occurrence. Even more stunning, he says, is that it is alive.