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Hurricane Erin exploded in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean before weakening on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.

About 40 million people rely on the Colorado River for drinking water. It also irrigates agricultural fields. It's also shrinking. Now, states might agree on a potential deal on sharing the river.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Robert Scheller, landscape ecology professor at North Carolina State University, about the increasing risk for wildfires in southeast and southern Appalachian regions.

Vermont is in a drought, and the Upper Valley area is seeing some of the worst of it. Farmers there are wondering: Will they have enough water to last them through the winter?

In Las Vegas, a team of water officers patrol city neighborhoods to make sure people aren't wasting water. Fines, the city has found, have helped reduce wasted water in an area that's in drought.

Hank Sprouse is part of a dwindling community of bird carvers, a group of artists who make lifelike birds out of blocks of wood.

The state Division of Marine Fisheries issued an advisory this week warning lobster fishers of low oxygen conditions in parts of Cape Cod Bay.

Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey will deliver the annual State of the Commonwealth address on Thursday evening.

President Trump is visiting Poland on the first leg of his overseas trip.