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The Town of Stonington has received over $700,000 in federal funding to help replace and repair two of their wastewater pumping stations.

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency is sending more than $57 million to New England to help upgrade water infrastructure.

A summer’s worth of rainfall last month is responsible for the new high.

Excess nutrients, as well as changes in the environment, are boosting the potential for cyanobacteria blooms.

President Bush's upcoming meeting with leading industrial nations is marked by the contentious issue of global warming. He is proposing the U.S. and other nations set a long-term goal for lowering greenhouse gases. But European leaders want a commitment that emissions of heat-trapping gases be cut in half over 40 years.

In Coming Home, Griner reflects on spending nearly 300 days in a Russian prison. Sonny Rollins' music speaks for itself on newly reissued Freedom Weaver. Zoë Schlanger considers plant consciousness.

Researchers say an ancient calendar discovered in southern Turkey may also memorialize a devastating comet strike that hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago.

Tamayo Perry was killed by a shark while surfing off Oahu's North Shore.

This week, the April 8 total solar eclipse inspired Barbie-level coverage mania at NPR. But it turns out other things happened too! Were you paying attention?

Pope Francis, who heads the Catholic Church, has doubled down on his commitment to the environment with a new electric popemobile presented by Mercedes-Benz.