Environment

A curious Brown Swiss dairy cow peers over Casey DeHaan's rotary parlour outside Ault, Colo.

How A Cheese Factory Is Transforming The Landscape Of Northern Colorado

2:04pm May 04, 2016

by Luke Runyon

Leprino's is the largest mozzarella manufacturer in the world. Now that the company is expanding, Colorado dairy farmers are beefing up their operations. The changes don't come without costs.

Students from Fort McMurray Composite High School are released early as wildfire burns nearby in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada on Tuesday. An uncontrolled wildfire burning near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, the heart of Canada's oil sands region, ha

Huge Wildfire Forces Evacuation Of Oil Sands City In Canada

12:41pm May 04, 2016

by Marie Andrusewicz

Some 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta, have been ordered to evacuate their homes. The wildfire spans more than 6,500 acres.

Scientists Look To Insects To Diagnose The Health Of A National Park

6:11am May 04, 2016

by Nathan Rott

Put on your waders and foam-soled boots — we're about to adventure into a shallow creek in Great Smoky Mountains National Park which straddles the border of North Carolina and Tennessee.

Environment

Clock Continues To Tick On Flint's Drinking Water Crisis

6:07am May 04, 2016

For more than 2 years, Flint residents have had unsafe drinking water. Steve Inskeep talks to Bishop Bernadel Jefferson of Faith Deliverance Center, a church in Flint, who's fighting for clean water.

Protesters demanding justice in the murder of environmental activist Berta CÃ¡ceres gather outside the prosecutor's office, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on April 5.

4 Arrested In Murder Of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres

10:07pm May 02, 2016

by Laura Wagner

Some of the suspects are said to have ties to DESA, the company building an electric dam protested by the environmental activist.

A Kenya Wildlife Services ranger stands guard in front illegal stockpiles of burning elephant tusks at the Nairobi National Park on April 30, 2016.

Environment

Up In Flames: Kenya Burns More Than 100 Tons Of Ivory

1:54pm April 30, 2016

by Gregory Warner

Nearly 30 years ago, Kenya burned 12 tons of ivory to try to halt the illegal ivory trade. Today it's burning 100 tons. How much difference does burning ivory make?

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The Large Hadron Collider uses superconducting magnets to smash sub-atomic particles together at enormous energies.

Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider

6:30pm April 29, 2016

by Geoff Brumfiel

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is offline, following a run-in with a small mammal that munched on a power cord.

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Cybil Preston, chief apiary inspector for the Maryland Department of Agriculture, does a training run with Mack: She sets up fake beehives and commands him to "find." He sniffs each of them to check for American foulbrood. If he detects the disease, he is

Keeping Bees Safe: It's A Ruff Job, But This Doggy Detective Gets It Done

2:53pm April 28, 2016

by Jodi Helmer

Mack is the newest addition to the Maryland Department of Agriculture's apiary inspection team. He uses his superior sniffer to find hives infected with a contagious disease that kills bee colonies.

National Park Service Celebrates 100th Anniversary

4:37pm April 25, 2016

by Nathan Rott

The National Park Service is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its creation this year. NPR spends time on the job with workers in the country's busiest national park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to explore the vast variety of work the park service does and the challenges it's facing.

If there was a way to keep using your phone forever, would you want to?

Environment

Phone, Everlasting: What If Your Smartphone Never Got Old?

4:30pm April 25, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

For many of us, when a phone starts slowing down we face a choice: spend the money to try to fix it or get a new one. But could there be a phone that never loses its luster?