Why Fighting Climate Change Requires Changing The Narrative
NPR blogger Adam Frank says Americans need to stop carrying the guilt of climate change, so that we can move on and fix it.
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That Salmon On The Menu Might Be A Fraud — Especially In Winter
Diners were likely to get duped 67 percent of the time when ordering salmon in restaurants out of season, a survey says. Much of the deception involved farmed salmon passed off as more expensive wild.
Colo. Gold King Mine Continues To Leak Waste As Winter Sets In
The EPA is racing to secure the site of the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado. This summer, the agency accidentally released 3 million gallons of orange wastewater into the Animas River.
Descending Into A Volcano — To Farm
Ecuador's Pululahua Geobotanical Reserve, nestled in a crater that last erupted 2,500 years ago, is billed as the world's only inhabited, cultivated volcano.
Hurricane Patricia Makes Landfall In Mexico
The Category 5 storm, which at one point had wind speeds of 200 miles per hour, hit Mexico's coast with 165 mph winds Friday night.
Hurricane Patricia Makes Landfall, Threatens Catastrophic Damage In Mexico
What was the most powerful storm ever recorded in the eastern Pacific or Atlantic basin has slammed into Mexico's central Pacific coast. The storm is now a bit weaker but still a powerful Category 5.
Beachside Resort In Sayulita, Mexico, Prepares For Hurricane Patricia
NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Norma Adams, general manager of Villa Amor in Sayulita, Mexico. Adams, a native of Sayulita, talks about how she and other staff started in the middle of the night Thursday to evacuate an entire wedding party from the resort on the water.
WATCH: Long-Lost Parachuting Beaver Footage From 1950
Circa 1950, Idaho Fish and Game tried a new way to handle beaver overpopulation: relocate some by dropping them from planes. A film was made to document the practice, but it was lost — until now.
How U.N. Climate Negotiations Are Like Splitting A Bar Tab
Nearly 200 countries have delegates in Bonn, Germany, this week, trying to figure out how to fight global warming. They're at a difficult point — what the nations have pledged so far isn't enough.
Chemicals In Sunscreen Are Harming Coral Reefs, Says New Study
Researchers found that the oxybenzone in just a single drop of sunscreen can wreak havoc on fragile coral reef systems. Reefs all over the world are at risk.