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For the Bicentennial in 1976, the Environmental Protection Agency buried a time capsule with the promise to open it this year. It's a promise the agency may not fulfill.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from New Orleans that flood water diversions in the lower Mississippi River are threatening marine environments and the local fishing industry.

Hawaii's native tree snails, known as the "jewels of the forest," are rapidly disappearing. Some of the most imperiled only live in human care now, safeguarded 24 hours a day.

The Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamation District is moving toward issuing $100 million in bonds for improvements to sewage treatment and runoff in the area. District executive director Tim Ervin said that is roughly a third of a larger effort to modernize the system and comply with tighter federal standards on phosphorous and other nutrient emissions.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., about why the Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ronny Jackson, has been delayed.

Congress has ordered a return of natural quiet at the Grand Canyon, but that's a tough mandate. Air tour operators have long resisted restrictions. With both sides finally working together, the challenge is to measure quiet.

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.

The YWCA McLean County has saved about $14,000 in the 10 months since installing its 123-kilowatt solar panel.Larissa Armstrong coordinates the Solar…

Common vampire bats might drink the blood of their prey, but it turns out that these fearsome beasts can be warm and fuzzy when it comes to their fellow bats.

M.C. Davis made millions gambling and buying up land and mineral rights. Now, he's restoring ecosystems destroyed by agriculture and timbering in his private preserve, one of the largest in the U.S.