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Azerbaijan has carried out an “escalating crackdown” on government critics and activists over the past two years, according to Human Rights Watch and Freedom Now.

Colleges are dropping application fees in an effort to make college more accessible to New York families, but also to boost enrollment in higher education, which has been on the decline for years.

Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.

Girls in the U.S. are getting their first period earlier than in decades past. Researchers say there are multiple factors causing early puberty, including obesity and environmental pollutants.

Eskamani says detainees are being held in "cages."

California is now the first state in the country to ban all plastic bags -- including recyclable bags -- from grocery stores. Take-out containers may be next.

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades later, their short visit still has visible, and vibrant, effects.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland about the Endangered Species Act, which turns 50 on Dec. 28.

Members of the Ho-Chunk nation in Wisconsin are part of an effort to widen the circle of professionals and volunteers tending to the earth and passing along their knowledge to others.

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, an effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.