It’s a classic birding bummer — sometimes a rare bird comes to light too late for birders to see it, to the chagrin of those ...

When you think of Coachella, you probably picture the festival. But there's much more to know about the place it calls home.

When you think of Coachella, you probably picture the festival. But there's much more to know about the place it calls home.

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back ...

Following a lithium-ion battery fire at the Moss Landing plant in Monterey County in California, communities nationwide are expressing concerns about hosting similar plants.

China is retaliating against U.S. tariffs by restricting exports of rare earth minerals. NPR's A Martinez asks rare earth minerals expert Gracelin Baskaran about why they are so vital to U.S. defense.

After Russia's devastating strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy {SOO-mee} that killed at least 35 people, a 13-year-old boy trapped inside a burning bus faced a dilemma.

The Trump administration is ending temporary protection status for Afghan citizens living in the U.S. NPR's A Martinez speaks to Shawn VanDiver, president and CEO of the nonprofit AfghanEvac.

Four new executive orders aimed at reviving coal mines include plans to keep coal fired power plants open even if companies operating them want to close.

President Trump on Tuesday threatened to pull Harvard's tax-exempt status a day after cutting more than $2 billion in federal funding after the university refused to implement government demands.

They can be life-saving but radiation from the scans also contributes to cancer risk. The authors of a new study estimate ...

The court is scheduled to rule whether a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female can be regarded ...