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As part of NPR's Changing Face of America series, correspondent David Molpus has the first of four reports this month on America's changing work environment. This week, Molpus reports on the democratic workplace with a profile of the Austin, Texas based Whole Foods Market. Molpus explores how the company's unorthodox management practices have helped it grow into the country's largest natural food grocery chain.

Two papers in the journal Nature shed new light on the relationship between wildfires and the environment. Major fires in Indonesia in the late 1990s spewed large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

Cover crops are regaining popularity in central Illinois as a way to preserve nutrients in soil and purity in water runoff. These secondary crops, such as…

Vikki Valentine is a senior supervising editor on NPR's science desk. She oversees the network's global health and development coverage across broadcast and digital platforms. Previously, Valentine was the network's climate change, energy, and environment editor and in this role was a recipient of a 2012 DuPont Award for coverage of natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania.

Lauren Sommer covers climate change for NPR's Science Desk, from the scientists on the front lines of documenting the warming climate to the way those changes are reshaping communities and ecosystems around the world.

Charles Darwin is known as the father of evolution. But another British naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, played a major role in developing the theory of natural selection before fading into obscurity. A trip to what's now Sulawesi in Indonesia, and the unique animals he found there, helped form his seminal ideas.

President Bush is pushing offshore drilling as a way to increase production and cut oil prices. Robert Siegel talks to Henry Lee, director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard University, who says offshore drilling may not have an immediate impact.

The City of Bloomington is getting a $600,000 state grant to build a green infrastructure park near to the community sewage treatment plant on the west side of town. It's the Sunnyside Park Sustainability Initiative.

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The latest from the WGLT Newsroom, reporting daily from the McLean County Law and Justice Center and elsewhere as the end of cash bail finally arrives. The Pretrial Fairness Act provision of the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform takes effect Monday.