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Idaho is having its worst summer for wildfire smoke in 25 years and has been America's top smoke producer since June. One megafire will likely only stop when snows arrive.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Antonia Sebastian, professor of environmental science at UNC Chapel Hill, about the flood risk facing inland communities as hurricanes become more intense.

A New York parks employee died battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have prompted air quality warnings in both states, authorities said Sunday.

The Normal Planning Commission on Thursday endorsed a new site plan for the Rivian expansion currently in development, and potential rezoning at the Trails on Sunset Lake subdivision.

A fire at a bio lab in Georgia recently is raising questions about whether a chemical that escaped and forced evacuations should face tougher regulations from the EPA.

"Ich bin ein Kallstadter," Donald Trump likes to say. But many of the villagers are more proud of other famous American descendants with links to Kallstadt: the Heinz family, of ketchup fame.

We're often told that economic growth is good, but Kate Raworth says our addiction to growth is destroying the planet. To thrive in the 21st century, she says we need a new circular economic system.

Tobias Buckell has written a thriller called Arctic Rising. Set in a period after global warming has opened the polar region to smugglers, drug traffickers and other illegal pursuits, the book is a fast paced thriller. Alan Cheuse, who teaches writing at George Mason University, thinks readers should receive it warmly.

The winner of the Dairy State's Democratic gubernatorial primary will face Gov. Scott Walker in a recall election June 5. After he took office last winter, Walker and fellow Republicans in the Legislature pushed through a law limiting collective bargaining rights, and the state has been on fire politically ever since.

Privatized U.K. water utilities have failed to upgrade Victorian plumbing, and 75% of U.K. rivers now contain unsafe levels of raw sewage. A group of athlete-activists are lobbying for change.