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Don't Bug Out! The Smithsonian Channel Is Going To Show You How To Cook Insects

Dried Manchurian scorpions? Think softshell crabs. Crickets? They're not far from crawfish. A new series aims to showcase the flavors of edible insects — prized ingredients in parts of the world.

A thick layer of smoke from the Carr Fire settles over California's Central Valley in a view from a jet earlier this summer. Fine particulate matter from drifting wildfire smoke mixes with industrial ozone and can become trapped between the mountain ranges.

Noxious Mix of Smoke And Pollution Stresses Health In California's Heartland

Low-income residents living near highways and agricultural and industrial zones are getting hit with a "double whammy" as wildfire smoke drifts to areas where the air is often polluted already.

Brown bears play in a pond at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage Glacier, Alaska, in 2009.

Congress Rolls Back Obama-Era Rule On Hunting Bears And Wolves In Alaska

The Senate voted Tuesday to lift a 2016 ban on certain hunting practices — like trapping and aerial shooting — on national wildlife refuges there. Now the bill heads to President Trump to be signed.

Salaried employees file their income tax papers at an tax office in New Delhi in 2013. Many Indians, including the entire agricultural sector and those living on less than $3,700 a year, are exempt from income tax. The Finance Ministry says just 27 million Indians paid income tax last year.

Why Do So Few People Pay Income Tax In India?

In a country with a population of more than 1 billion people, just 27 million paid taxes last year. Many Indians see no clear link between paying taxes and provision of government services.

Mars Incorporated Criticizes Trump's Decision To Leave Paris Climate Accord

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Andy Pharoah, vice president for corporate affairs at Mars Incorporated, about why the company is such an avid backer of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Scientists rallied for evidence-based public policy outside the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco in December.

Should Scientists March? U.S. Researchers Still Debating Pros And Cons

A "March for Science" is set for April 22 in Washington, D.C., to show support for evidence-based public policy. But some worry the march will be seen as partisan, and may even undermine sound policy.

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 monitors how the climate is changing. Trump's budget would eliminate some satellites, including OCO-3, a next-generation carbon-monitoring spacecraft.

Trump's Budget Slashes Climate Change Funding

The White House's proposed federal budget cuts everything from research to regulation, and makes clear that the administration doesn't view climate change as a priority.

The City Hall of Paris is illuminated in green on Thursday, after the announcement by President Trump that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris accord and try to negotiate a new global deal on climate change

'Make Our Planet Great Again,' And Other Responses To U.S. Exit From Climate Deal

Arnold Schwarzenegger said no one can go back in time (except the Terminator). The French president riffed on Trump's campaign slogan. And the mayor of Pittsburgh told Trump: Not in our name.

A Category 5 storm, Hurricane Irma's "extremely dangerous core" is moving over parts of the U.S. Virgin Islands and heading for Puerto Rico.

Hurricane Irma Pushes Away From Puerto Rico, With Florida In Its Sights

The strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic outside of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico is moving away from Puerto Rico. More than half of its residents are without power.

The Arkema plant in Crosby, Texas, is northeast of Houston. The company says it received reports of two explosions at the plant in the early hours of Thursday. Later, the county's emergency and safety officials insisted that nothing at the plant had exploded and that it was containers "popping."

Chemical Fire Burns At Flooded Arkema Plant In Crosby, Texas

Because of floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey, the plant lost power — and the ability to keep containers of flammable organic peroxides from bursting and burning, according to Harris County officials.

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