Rosy, 6, gives COVID tests and vaccines to her stuffed animals. She herself has been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, multiple times and never tested positive. What's her secret? Michaeleen Doucleff/NPR The first time my daughter, Rosy, was exposed to SARS-CoV-2, I panicked. It was November 2020, ...

Farmland is seen with standard solar panels from Cypress Creek Renewables, Oct. 28, 2021, in Thurmont, Md. Julio Cortez | AP A team of engineers at Stanford University have developed a solar cell that can generate some electricity at night. The research comes at a moment when the number of ...

Plastic debris is washed up at Depoe Bay, Ore., on Jan. 19, 2020. Andrew Selsky | AP Researchers say they have found microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic debris that come as a result of the disposal of industrial waste — deep in the lungs of living humans for the ...

The report finds the world's energy supply needs to shift to renewable sources, like this solar farm in Karnataka, India, but it's not happening fast enough.Abhishek Chinnappa | Getty Images The world still has time to avoid the most extreme dangers of climate change, but only if nations cut greenhouse ...

More than 100 farmers gathered in the rotunda of the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines to protest three carbon pipelines proposed in Iowa. Clay Masters | Iowa Public Radio Updated April 4, 2022 at 5:32 PM ET Three companies want to build carbon capture pipelines through a large swatch of ...

The modern environmental movement and the far-right movement might appear to be on opposing sides of the political ideology spectrum. But overlap does exist and researchers say it's growing. Christian Aslund/EyeEm | Getty Images At first glance, the modern environmental movement and the far-right movement – including anti-immigrant and white ...

The business model of luxury ski areas is again under scrutiny as the perils of climate change take hold in the Rocky Mountains.Kirk Siegler | NPR Interstate 70, which cuts through the Colorado Rockies and its famous ski resorts, was a parking lot on a recent Sunday. It's like this ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the farthest star ever seen. The magnified galaxy looks like a stretched out red line with three dots. The single star is the middle one.NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI) Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture light from what ...

An image of a flamingo. This is not the flamingo that escaped from a Kansas zoo.Brian Mumaw/500px | Getty Images A flamingo that flew away from a Kansas zoo nearly 17 years ago and has been on the run ever since was glimpsed in Texas earlier this month. A video ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has experienced four mass bleaching events in the last seven years, like this one in 2017. Scientists warn repeated bleaching makes it tough for corals to recover.Brett Monroe Garner | Getty Images Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been hit by widespread coral bleaching repeatedly in recent ...