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Indonesia is in the midst of a nickel boom, but there are concerns about how the mineral is mined and refined, and about its cost to the environment and local health.

Elham Fini, professor of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University, talks about her work on the health impact of asphalt emissions and a solution that could minimize the harmful effects.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks about the EPA transition with Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and administrator of the EPA from 2001 to 2003.

One reason people purchase artificial trees is because they believe they're more environmentally sound. But is that true?

Beaches are coated with plastic pellets, and a container full of nitric acid has leaked. Sri Lankan authorities are now making preparations for an oil spill.

Elizabeth Wynne Johnson examines the environmental record of Dirk Kempthorne. The governor of Idaho is President Bush's nominee to be secretary of the Interior.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with environmental educator and researcher Suzana Padua about how the election of Brazil's new president Jair Bolsonaro may threaten the country's conservation efforts.

The second Trump administration has removed more climate and environmental data from websites in the first 100 days than the first administration, according to a new report.

Climate change can feel like a distant, heady topic. While fully understanding the nuances of the science behind it can be complicated, its effects are…

Host Liane Hansen speaks with composer John Luther Adams bout his new CD, "Earth and the Great Weather - A Sonic Geography of the rctic." (New World 80459-2) Through a combination of on-site nature recordings, uman voices, and chilling musical arrangements, Adams has succeeded in creating unique sound landscape in celebration of Alaska's beautiful and shockingly tark environment. His previous CD, also inspired by the great white north, is alled "The Far Country" (New Albion NA061CD).