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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Rae Wynn-Grant about her journey to becoming an ecologist. Grant writes about it in her memoir, "Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World."

The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, has a new photo exhibit in honor of International Women's Day: "Iconic Women: From Everyday Life to Global Heroes."

Landscape architect Walter Hood transforms street corners and town squares, often in underserved communities, into spaces that honor communal histories. He is one of 26 MacArthur fellows this year.

Researchers studying the wreckage of the Clotilda, which has been buried in mud on the Alabama coast since 1860, say that most of the wooden schooner is still largely in one piece.

It's looking like 2024 will be the hottest year since record-keeping began, unseating 2023 for the top spot. Climate change is playing a role, and scientists say it was even hotter than expected.

The pandemic pushed many South Africans out of work. Some grabbed land and put up shacks. There's a community called "Covid" — and even "Sanitizer." The Anti-Land Invasion Unit aims to tear them down.

The UNF Surf Team is heading to the National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA) Championships this weekend in Dana Point, California.After taking home…

An artisanal salt producer is processing brine from ancient ocean deposits below West Virginia's mountains. The company, J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works, ships to top chefs who value the salt's minerality.

Environmentalists were disappointed when the administration approved offshore oil drilling in the Arctic. While in Alaska, Obama talked about climate change — drawing praise from that same community.

To forecast sudden global catastrophe — and, perhaps, head it off — we should be spying on the climate at least as closely as we spy on each other, an expert panel warns. Yet the primary global monitoring network has been cut by 30 percent.