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3 days ago | 
npr.org | Jessica Yung |Regina G. Barber |Rebecca Ramirez
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3 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Jessica Yung |Regina G. Barber |Rebecca Ramirez
President Trump’s executive order aimed at revitalizing the coal industry means nothing in the fight against climate change. Read on for an opinion writer’s explanation. Cutting coal only hurts the US and won’t stop climate changeTo coal or not to coal? Given the loud shrieks of climate change zealots, one would think that the world is going to end in a few years if we don’t …
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2 months ago | 
npr.org | Regina G. Barber |Jessica Yung |Rebecca Ramirez |Kimberly McCoy
What are 'mirror cells' and why do some scientists warn against creating them? Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1230610853/1265990068" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Scientists can make mirror molecules in the lab, but are still at least a decade away from creating a mirror cell.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
npr.org | Hannah Chinn |Emily Kwong |Rebecca Ramirez |Jessica Yung
Scientists are predicting the future to save the forests. Here's how Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1263339270/1264992738" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Douglas fir seedlings at the U.S. Forest Service's Dorena Genetic Resource Center in Oregon. These seedlings are part of a research experiment to plant more climate resilient forests.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
npr.org | Emily Kwong |Jessica Yung |Rebecca Ramirez
Sick with flu? Scientists want to increase vaccine longevity Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1263339278/1264730694" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> A new study by a team at Stanford Medicine suggests that megakaryocytes might be a bellwether for measuring how well a vaccine is conferring immunity.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
npr.org | Emily Kwong |Jessica Yung |Rebecca Ramirez
Why smoke from the Los Angeles fires is still so dangerous Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1224599763/1264645320" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The sky over Los Angeles is filled with smoke from multiple wildfires burning in and around the Los Angeles area.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
npr.org | Emily Kwong |Jessica Yung |Rebecca Ramirez
How the Santa Ana winds helped fuel the Los Angeles wildfires Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1249800806/1264582913" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Embers are blown off a burning tree as the Eaton Fire burns in Altadena, Calif. As of Thursday morning, the fire had ballooned to 10,600 acres. Red flag warning have been extended through Friday for wind-prone areas.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
npr.org | Emily Kwong |Jessica Yung |Rebecca Ramirez
Why the Southwest peach could make a comeback Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1217547168/1263235980" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Reagan Wytsalucy is a horticulturalist on a mission: Restore the Southwest peach. Levi Sim hide caption toggle caption Levi Sim Reagan Wytsalucy is a horticulturalist on a mission: Restore the Southwest peach.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
npr.org | Emily Kwong |Jessica Yung |Ari Shapiro |Rachel Carlson |Jordan-Marie Smith |Christopher Intagliata | +1 more
Here's how a wild hazelnut could help the Land Back movement in CanadaBeaked hazelnuts are a little sweeter and more buttery than commercial hazelnuts. Nestled in a fuzzy, green husks that extends outward like the beak of a bird, beaked hazelnuts carpet the forest valleys of British Columbia. For generations, First Nations tribes in the region have passed down stories of these hazelnuts as a vital food source their ancestors planted and cultivated.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
npr.org | Emily Kwong |Jessica Yung |Rebecca Ramirez
Endangered languages are dying rapidly. Linguists are trying to save some of themBy the end of the century, more than 40% of the world's estimated 7000 thousand languages are in danger of disappearing. Those include indigenous languages in the Amazon. The United Nations estimates that an Indigenous language dies every two weeks. So, how does a community reverse course? Today, we focus on two endangered languages spoken in the Vaupés region of in Northwest Amazonia: Desano and Siriano.
