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From Montego Bay to Miami, sargassum is leaving stinky brown carpets over what was once prime tourist sand. But whether it gets ignored or removed, it comes with high health and environmental risks.

Gold prices are soaring. Cue the gold rush, and with it, more challenges for Brazil and efforts to protect the world's largest tropical forest, write Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis.

A new study finds that smoke from massive wildfires has eroded about a quarter of the air quality gains from the last few decades.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon is soaring under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. It is even happening in a vast highly protected reserve named after a murdered environmentalist.

Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb says cars are killing animals, while highways cut off them off from their food sources and migration paths. His new book is Crossings.

Ever since the Soviet Union collapsed two decades ago, many Russians have felt they were a nation in retreat. But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sees the Arctic as a place for Russia to expand, with an eye on its natural resources.

Despite progress that's been made in Brazil, deforestation is increasing in the other 40 percent of the rainforest. The problem is particularly serious in Bolivia, where a swath of trees two-thirds the size of Delaware is cleared each year.

The holiest month in the Muslim calendar begins for many on Monday. This is what NPR readers will be praying for.

“I do worry that he is not helping further penetration of EVs into the car market” and might make people leery of buying a Tesla, an electric vehicle owner and enthusiast in Michigan tells NPR.

The reopening of a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon has the Navajo Nation, and now Arizona's attorney general, questioning its safety.