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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.

In his new book, An Immense World, science writer Ed Yong explores the diversity of perception in the animal world — including echolocation, magnetic fields and ultraviolet vision.

Behind fears over the coronavirus pandemic, lies an even deeper worry about the fate of our planet. Here are tools to process these feelings and find the courage to face the future.

Bloomington is one of 50 mid-sized communities across the nation to receive a 60-thousand dollar health planning grant from the Robert Wood Johnson…

President Trump has restated his intent to "take over" Greenland. NPR's A Martinez speaks to Rebecca Pincus of the Foreign Policy Research Institute about why Greenland is so important.

Many communities are locking down again due to the case surges, giving scientists more of a chance to see how that's changing the environment. They're finding it's affecting air and water quality.

Unit 5 schools will get almost $1.1 million to buy five electric school buses, with the funding coming from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2023 Clean School Bus Rebate Competition.

In a series of reports for Radio Expeditions, Elizabeth Arnold journeys to Sri Lanka with one of the first teams to assess the environmental aftermath of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami.

Plastic waste litters cities, oceans and even the air. Largely overlooked is how making plastic affects the environment. Plastic is a big contributor to global warming. So are its alternatives.

A potential huge cost looms for drinking water producers — so-called forever chemicals or PFAS. Bloomington and Normal water departments expect regulation will eventually require removal of PFAS.