Energy/Environment

Health clinics and organizations advocating for poor and working-class Nebraskans say the rollout of Medicaid work requirements has been rife with problems.

NASA needs more recruits in order to return to the moon after being gone more than half a century.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Alex Fogg, Natural Resources Chief of Okaloosa County, Florida, about efforts to deliberately sink the SS United States and create an artificial reef in its wreckage.

The Trump administration is working to rescind the "Roadless Rule," which blocks road construction in some national forests. This could affect Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

From Arctic landscapes to insect bodies, climate change is shifting the familiar colors of nature.

Robots used during search and rescue operations need to be able to wriggle through narrow cracks and crevices. Researchers have turned to a natural contortionist for inspiration — the octopus.

Every cell in our bodies produces waste, and our bodies need to clear out that metabolic garbage to stay healthy.

The Chesapeake Bay, home to blue crabs and striped bass, has a new apex predator: the blue catfish.

A slate of new progressives will be heading to Washington next year, many of whom cite climate action as a top priority.

In October 2025, the remnants of a typhoon seriously damaged Alaska Native villages in the far western part of the state. A year later, one of the hardest hit communities is still recovering.