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The U.N. Environment Program has released its annual Emissions Gap Report. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to international climate policy expert Elliot Diringer about the findings.

A professor sent an email instructing Chinese students at Duke to speak only English in certain campus buildings. An uproar and an apology followed.

Some kids seem resilient from the start — readily able, like dandelions, to cope with stress and adversity. But pediatrician Thomas Boyce says biologically reactive kids need more support to thrive.

Climate activists have never liked Trump-appointed World Bank President David Malpass. But this week, his comments on climate change fueled calls for President Biden to make a change.

In an interview with WGLT, Pratte talks about how he got interested in the zoo profession, his plans for the Miller Park Zoo, and why he chose Bloomington as his next stop.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning that the world is "on a highway to climate hell" and urged the two biggest polluting countries, China and the United States, to work together to avert it.

A new report finds more election officials are leaving their jobs now than at any point in the past two decades. But the report also adds new context to the phenomenon.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Gregory Daco, chief economist at Ernst and Young and about Monday's market sell off and what that could mean for the global economy.

Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles.

Many Northeast states are counting on offshore wind to provide jobs, confront climate change and help keep the lights on in the future. there's anxiety about how the election will affect the industry.