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There are just 11 students at California's Death Valley Elementary, one full-time teacher and one teaching aide. The small-school environment helped one pupil overcome speech and language delays, and many of her classmates are working above grade level.

New research published in the journal Nature suggests that mass deforestation and fire have dramatically undercut the Amazon's ability to absorb heat-trapping carbon emissions.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jennifer Turner, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's China Environment Forum, about the toxic waste disaster in Shenzhen, China.

Scientists say the rocks lend weight to a theory that life on Earth originated, as Darwin wrote, "in some warm little pond" on land, suggesting we should look for it in similar environments on Mars.

Fans of Harry Potter erected a memorial to Dobby the house elf on the beach where he dies in the movie. Officials are asking people to stop leaving socks and painted rocks, which harm the environment.

At a time when communities feel fractured, here's a look at online communities taking a pragmatic approach to changing the world for the better.

Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff gives us the first of a two-part episode that dives into the potential of building a local food system in Central Illinois and reviews a bit of the history of why, in a place with such great soil, a strong local food system has yet to take hold.

Peoples Gas, North Shore Gas, Ameren Illinois and Nicor Gas are all seeking rate increases

The Ecosystems Mission Area helps researchers track everything from birds and bees to floods and fires. Trump wants to cut it by about 90%, gutting a key federal ecological program.

The modern environmental movement and the far-right movement might appear to be on opposing sides of the political ideology spectrum. But overlap does exist and researchers say it's growing.