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NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Short Wave hosts Regina Barber and Geoff Brumfiel about a copper-age "queen," a 500-million-year-old sea squirt, and a way to help mosquitoes fight malaria.

Growing crowds at America's national parks have prompted some of them to allow entry by reserved tickets only. Arches National Park in Utah may be next, and there's renewed controversy over that step.

Bloomington native and now Normal resident Dr. Cedric Williams is the founder and CEO of the Twin Cities based Legacy Consulting & Research Group.…

Kenyan environmental activist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai wins the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Founder of The Green Belt Movement and a champion of women's rights, Maathai is the first African woman to win the prize. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

A Clinton trucking company is being taken to court by the Illinois attorney general’s office because of a large fuel spill.Illinois Attorney General Lisa…

An Illinois State University Professor of Economics does not support a move by the McLean County Board last week that prevented a change to the wind farm…

A report released Monday says Illinois’ poor credit rating should be blamed on “governance weakness,” not the state’s economy.Fitch Ratings says although…

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office has reached an $850,000 settlement with a LaSalle County chemical company that dumped thousands of pounds...

As Exelon seeks state help in propping up the Clinton Nuclear Plants and several Illinois reactors, the company's subsidiary, Com-Ed, has pushed for…

The Ohio River stretches from Pittsburgh to Mississippi, and the basin is more than 200,000 square miles.