Fracking's Methane Trail: A Detective Story
Gaby Petron didn't set out to challenge industry and government assumptions about how much pollution comes from natural gas drilling.She was just doing what she always does as an air pollution data...
View ArticleNASA Fishes For Tools To Tackle Asteroid
NASA may have retired its shuttles, but it has its sights on sending astronauts deeper into space than ever before.These voyages are years away, but on Monday, astronauts are heading underwater to take...
View ArticleU.S. Oil Production Jumps
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: NPR's business news starts with falling oil prices.The price for crude oil is the lowest it's been since last fall. That's partly because oil production is up in Saudi...
View ArticleThank The Simple Wasp For That Complex Glass Of Wine
The next time you take a sip of your favorite wine, you might want to make your first toast to hornets. Or, more precisely, European hornets and paper wasps.That's because those big scary flying...
View ArticleChanging Climate May Have Led To Earliest Mummies
A couple of thousand years before the Egyptians preserved some of their dead, a much simpler society made the first known mummies.The Chinchorros, the first mummy makers, lived about 7,000 years ago in...
View ArticleWhen This Oil Spills, It's 'A Whole New Monster'
Sometime in the next few months, David Daniel probably will have to stand by and watch as bulldozers knock down his thick forest and dig up the streams he loves.His East Texas property is one of more...
View ArticleWood Energy Not 'Green' Enough, Says Mass.
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: When it comes to renewable energy, wind and solar get a lot of attention. But wood actually creates more power in the U.S., and Massachusetts state officials are scaling...
View ArticleWhite House Unveils New Fuel-Efficiency Standards
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Obama's administration has adopted new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks.
View ArticleExtreme Weather Means Extreme Food Prices Worldwide, Aid Agency Warns
Reducing greenhouse gases and saving the polar bears tend to dominate discussions on climate change. But to the booming world population, one climate change issue may be even more pressing – hunger.A...
View ArticleChimney Rock Becomes Newest National Monument
President Obama named a new national monument on Friday: Chimney Rock in southwestern Colorado. With two sandstone spires soaring from a mesa, not only is Chimney Rock a spectacular place; it also...
View ArticleOn The Campaign Trail, Regulations Dominate The Environmental Debate
In previous elections, candidates from both parties have campaigned on pledges to be environmental presidents.
View ArticleMillions Without Power As Sandy Makes Landfall
Sandy hit the East Coast on Monday and knocked out power for millions of people. Utility companies face major challenges to get power back online after the massive storm.
View ArticleLoophole Lets Toxic Oil Water Flow Over Indian Land
The air reeks so strongly of rotten eggs that tribal leader Wes Martel hesitates to get out of the car at an oil field on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. He already has a headache from the fumes...
View ArticleEPA Bans BP From Bidding On Federal Contracts
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday that it is temporarily banning BP from doing new business with the federal government. The agency cites BP's lack of business integrity as a...
View ArticleTexas Man Takes Last Stand Against Keystone XL Pipeline
An east Texas landowner was so determined to block the Keystone XL pipeline from coming through his forest that he took to his trees and built an elaborate network of treehouses eight stories above the...
View ArticleBudget Deal Provides Tax Brakes For Green Energy
Whether you're a homeowner who bought an energy-saving refrigerator last year or a company hoping to build a wind farm, the tax package Congress just approved may give you a reason to cheer."It's got...
View ArticleElectric Companies Surprising Winners In New Tax Package
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. The new last-minute tax deal cobbled together by Congress and...
View ArticleDeep In Canadian Lakes, Signs Of Tar Sands Pollution
Canadian researchers have used the mud at the bottom of lakes like a time machine to show that tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada, is polluting remote regional lakes as far as 50 miles from...
View ArticleCoal Loses Crown As King Of Power Generation
Just a few years ago, Georgia Power generated nearly three-fourths of its electricity with coal. Last year, for the first time, natural gas edged out coal, and just this week the company announced...
View ArticleUnderstanding Climate Change, With Help From Thoreau
Modern scientists trying to understand climate change are engaged in an unlikely collaboration — with two beloved but long-dead nature writers: Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold.The authors of...
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