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Hikers take an ice cream break on the Appalachian Trail

6:56am August 30, 2023

by Rachel McDevitt

At the halfway point of the more than 2,000 mile-long Appalachian Trail, hikers stop to refresh with a half gallon of ice cream. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 5, 2023.)

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Morning news brief

5:10am August 30, 2023

Florida braces for Hurricane Idalia as it prepares to make landfall. Senior leaders of the Proud Boys will be sentenced Wednesday. And an unwanted kiss may have set off a new movement in Spain.

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Why poison ivy loves climate change

5:10am August 30, 2023

by Gabrielle Emanuel

Climate change appears to be making poison ivy thrive, with the plant growing faster, larger and more potent.

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Residents in the Tampa region brace for Hurricane Idalia's arrival

5:10am August 30, 2023

NPR's A Martinez talks to Monika Alesnik of the Homeless Leadership Alliance of Pinellas about how the group is preparing unhoused people for the arrival of Hurricane Idalia.

What it is like to be a blue governor in a deep red state

5:10am August 30, 2023

by Sylvia Goodman

Kentucky's Democratic governor is leading in the polls, despite the majority Republican state political scene. Crossover governors have become an increasingly rare phenomenon outside of Kentucky.

In Wisconsin, Republicans say the state's top election official has to go

5:10am August 30, 2023

by Chuck Quirmbach

Republicans in Wisconsin are trying to remove the state's top elections official, whose role is non-partisan. Many Republicans are still contesting the results of the 2020 election.

An interaction made Lynn Fainsilber Katz feel like she could continue the life she wants to have.

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When life gets hard, you don't have to do it alone. Just ask Lynn

5:00am August 30, 2023

A stranger at the beach helped Lynn Fainsilber Katz, and left her feeling like she could continue the life she wants to have.

Students from the Yupiit School District learn how to prepare freshly caught salmon.

An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests

4:59am August 30, 2023

by Evan Erickson

Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.

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Washington's Lummi people mourn the death of the last captive Southern Resident Orca

7:51pm August 29, 2023

by Bellamy Pailthorp

An Orca whale known as Lolita — the last southern resident killer whale surviving in captivity — died recently. She was captured in 1970 in Penn Cove off Whidbey Island.

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A snowy egret stands within the salt marsh at Station Creek Landing in St Helena, S.C., on July 10, 2023.

The EPA removes federal protections for most of the country's wetlands

7:41pm August 29, 2023

by James Doubek

The amended EPA rule is to comply with a Supreme Court ruling this year that narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act and the agency's power to regulate waterways and wetlands.