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Britain's handling of its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade is seen by many as a litmus test for the Commonwealth's adaptation to a modern-day world.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to "drill, baby, drill." But presidents don't decide how much oil gets drilled in the U.S. — oil companies do. And they might have reasons to hold back.

Our local lobster fishery is divided into two areas — region one which is basically the Gulf of Maine, and region two on the backside of the Cape, and for several months, all the fishing stock available to our local fleet had moved to region two.

After back-to-back hurricanes triggered millions of power outages in Florida, power companies are trying to make the grid more resilient while also elastic enough to handle all the solar power flowing into the system.

Even some states led by Democrats look to pull back incentives on electric vehicles as budgets tighten and as the Trump administration turns back on Biden-era EV promises.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Miranda Kaiser, a fifth-generation Rockefeller and the president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, about her efforts to take down the fossil fuel industry.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Christie Todd Whitman, former EPA administrator, about the future of the agency under President Trump.

Colorado and Utah are reporting their lowest snowpacks in recorded history. Skier visits at major resorts are way down. Without snow to refresh reservoirs, water managers are sounding alarms.

International shipping company CMA CGM has stepped up its support for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in more ways than one.

U.S. policymakers from both parties have proposed higher trade barriers, or even bans, to keep the vehicles out more permanently.