Environment

Rights for the rivers: Groups fight for recognition of natural entities' legal rights

4:39pm July 04, 2023

by Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

There's a growing movement that calls for granting legal rights to natural entities like forests and rivers. Indigenous groups say it should definitely hold true for the Mississippi river and others.

Good clean, cold fun. Joey McAtamney rides remnant snow in the Colorado Rockies over the weekend.

What heat dome? They're still skiing in Colorado

5:20am July 04, 2023

by Lucas Brady Woods

Colorado's big winter means there's still enough snow to ski and snowboard on this Fourth of July weekend.

Beekeepers struggle to keep crops pollinated after half their colonies died last year

5:51pm July 03, 2023

by Allison Aubrey

A national survey shows U.S. beekeepers lost about half of their colonies in 2022. A beekeeper talks about the important role bees play in our food supply.

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Big, mysterious, harmless Joro spiders have made themselves at home in Georgia

5:51pm July 03, 2023

by Martin Matheny

The Japanese Joro spider has made it's home in Georgia. Its big, beautiful, harmless to people, shy and rapidly growing in numbers. It's invasive, but it is not yet clear what harm it can cause.

An aerial drone display by approximately 500 drones hovers over the Garonne River in Bordeaux, France on June 23, 2023. Some U.S. cities are planning their own drone shows as an alternative to Fourth of July fireworks.

Fireworks can make bad air quality even worse. For some cities, the answer is drones

3:23pm July 03, 2023

by Emily Olson

After days of smoky conditions caused by Canadian wildfires, some U.S. cities are looking to play it safe this Fourth of July with innovative alternatives to their fireworks displays.

New Zealand's produce bag ban will also include recyclable, biodegradable or plant-based plastic.

New Zealand becomes first country to ban single-use produce bags at grocery stores

12:36pm July 03, 2023

by Juliana Kim

The nation has banned the bags that typically hold vegetables and fruit. Recyclable, biodegradable or plant-based plastic bag are also included in the ban.

Environment

Who gets a say in the Colorado River's water supply

5:38pm July 02, 2023

The podcast Parched, from Colorado Public Radio, looks at the Colorado River, the people who rely on the river, and those who have ideas to save it.

Rice mill workers start their day at the break of dawn. Some of them boil the paddy rice. Others carry it and spread it outside the rice mill to dry in the sun. To make sure that it dries properly, they rake it out, then sweep it back.

Drone Photo Award winners capture the extraordinary beauty of the ordinary

7:27am July 02, 2023

by Bec Roldan

A rice field, a playground, piles of garbage — cameras from above cast a lens at earthly images with surprising, even dazzling results. Here are some of the winners from the 2023 Drone Photo Awards.

People at a viewing deck of the Rockefeller Center gaze at the Manhattan skyline on Friday during heavy smog brought by wildfire smoke from Canada.

Canada's record wildfire season continues to hammer U.S. air quality

4:34pm July 01, 2023

by Willem Marx

Several hundred wildfires are continuing to burn across Canada this weekend, with an ongoing impact on impact air quality for vast swaths of the North American continent.

Environment

Nets, coolers and courage: A day in the life of a volunteer bee conservationist

6:00am July 01, 2023

by Christopher Intagliata

Over three years, hundreds of volunteers will fan out across California to survey wild bees, with the goal of piecing together a picture of where they live and which species are in trouble.

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