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Republican Gov. Phil Scott says the 'renewable energy standard' will increase electricity costs at a time when Vermont is becoming increasingly unaffordable.

A few years ago, a Philadelphia arborist named Max Paschall read an article about a man named John Hershey. Hershey ran a tree nursery and experimental farm in Pennsylvania in the 1930s.

Sydney, Australia, is suffering under a blanket of smoke and officials are sounding air quality alerts because of vast wildfires in the area. And it's still early in the fire season. Steve Inskeep talks to Stuart Cohen for the latest.

In Norway, where skiing is the top sport, huge crowds turned out there for the world championships of cross country skiing that wrapped up this weekend.

The Energy Star program has saved Americans more than a half-trillion dollars in energy costs and has reduced climate pollution. Now the Trump administration wants to eliminate or privatize it.

Some apple orchards across the state are reporting an unusually light apple crop this fall. Others say their late varieties are faring well.

A new study warns that 200 million more people 69 or older will be at risk of dying in heat waves by 2050.

For the first time, a re-creation of the annex where Anne Frank and her family hid is available outside of Amsterdam. Visitors in New York said its themes reverberated in today's political climate.

Incumbent socialist leader Nicolas Maduro is running for a third term amid the country's grave economic crisis and an increasingly authoritarian political climate.

A new study looks at thousands of years worth of data and finds that malaria hot spots have played a critical role in shaping where humans settled and either thrived or failed to thrive.