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The Department of the Interior has chosen a prominent property rights attorney in Wyoming as their new deputy solicitor. Its a controversial appointment for environmental groups.

The World Health Organization and the U.S. have declared monkeypox a public health emergency. From how it spreads to preventive measures, here's what you need to know about the disease.

The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.

The Customs and Border Protection agency says it is doing its best to reduce impact to the environment and tribal citizens. Conservationists and Native Tribes in the area are not appeased.

Today, thousands of low head dams remain in Kentucky, although new power sources and transportation methods, among other societal changes, have made most of them obsolete. Worse, almost all of them present a threat to humans and the aquatic environment.

Friday's debut of new pandas at the National Zoo in D.C. is the latest chapter in a long tale of "panda diplomacy" between China and the rest of the world.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave about an ancient magma ocean on the moon, the snake problem of Florida's Everglades, and why scrolling through video clips bores us.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about biodegradable plastic, simulating growing crops on Mars, and how deer are disrupting caribou populations.

The marshy wetlands of the Camargue in southern France are rich in wildlife and folklore. But the region's most stunning icons roams free here: the Camargue bull, one of Europe's last two breeds of fighting bulls. The creatures are taunted and teased, respected and revered.

A pair of fungus foragers in California's Humboldt County recently pulled in more than 200 pounds of chanterelles. Rather than cash in, they donated and got creative.