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The Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs said it lifted a moratorium on timber harvesting on state land back in January. But loggers said no new harvesting projects have gone out to bid since late 2022.

Cunningham piloted the first manned Apollo mission, a key step in the drive to reach the moon, but he never flew in space again. He was a physicist who later became known as a climate-change skeptic.

More than 1,000 homes were lost in the Marshall fire in Colorado last December. Now residents are wondering if they can afford to rebuild energy efficient, resilient homes.

Climate-related storms are becoming more frequent and severe. NPR and PBS FRONTLINE investigate the forces keeping communities from building back in a way that protects them from the next storm.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports on the re-emergence of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as a popular figure in Russia. Soon after the Soviet Union collapsed there was talk about removing him from his mauseleum to be buried. Lenin's body is now back on display from its bienniel cleaning. And, the changing political climate in Russia means it will probably stay in its prominent place in Red Square.

David Kestenbaum reports on astronomers plans to deal with some future climate changes. A billion years from now the sun will swell and grow brighter as it burns more fuel. By nudging an asteroid into close passes with the earth, they say it would be possible to move our planet into a cooler, more distant orbit. That would buy us a five billion years to figure out what happens when the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs us.

American speed skating has traditionally been dominated by athletes from the upper Midwest, skaters with hair and skin as pale as the frozen lakes and rinks they raced on as kids. But that has all changed due to the popularity of in-line skating in warmer climates, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports for Morning Edition.

The new documentary An Inconvenient Truth is an important counterbalance to the misinformation about global warming, say Al Gore and film producer Laurie David. The movie is based on the former vice president's slideshow presentation on climate change.

- Daniel talks with New York University Professor Frederick Karl about recent allegations that the Unabomber might have been inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad. Conrad's book, "The Secret Agent" centers around a professor who tries to bomb the Greenwich Observatory in England to protest scientific and technological advancement. Karl says the themes in Conrad's book were typical during the turn of the century because of the political and social climate.

From Jerusalem, Laurie Neff reports on the national outrage that has erupted in Israel, following an incident in which a Jordanian soldier opened fire on a tour-group of Israeli school girls visiting the Jordan-Israeli border. Seven of the girls were killed, and eight others wounded. Many Israeli politicians are blaming King Hussein for creating the climate that allowed such an attack by publishing the text of a strong letter of criticism he wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.