3+ hour, 14+ min ago  (733+ words) Tom Cichosz fishes Lake Waubesa in Madison, Wisconsin. Berly McCoy hide caption Before sunrise, on a frigid, frozen lake south of Madison, Wisconsin, Zach Feiner is staring at a buzzing screen. He's drilled a hole through the ice on Lake…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (751+ words) In the middle of the 7th century, a plague swept through the walled city of Jerash, in what is now modern-day Jordan. Ceramicists abandoned their workshops under the Hippodrome, leaving unfired pottery in their haste. Young and old alike succumbed to…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (229+ words) There are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. But scientists have been able to clone ferrets from genetic specimens collected in the 1980s. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd talks with Ryan Phelan, co-founder of Revive…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (730+ words) People gather on Lake Mendota near an inflatable Statue of Liberty crown and torch at the 2026 Winter Carnival on Feb. 7 in Madison, Wis. Kayla Wolf for NPR hide caption MADISON, Wis. " Earlier this month, Madison, Wis., was host to the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (619+ words) Over half a billion people live by lakes that freeze over in the winter. But as the climate warms, those lakes are losing whole days of ice cover. Winters are also getting weirder, with more intense temperature swings that lead…...

4+ day, 49+ min ago  (692+ words) A plan for the country's biggest solar project is moving ahead in California. If built, it'll power entire cities and millions of homes. Dan Charles reports on the farmers behind the project. DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: A few years ago, a…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (805+ words) Neonicotinoids are widely used pesticides, but they kill bees and harm ecosystems. New rules would treat them more like controlled drugs, requiring something akin to a prescription for their use. Pesticides have let farmers increase their yields and grow more…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (305+ words) Helicopters. Cargo containers. Old washing machines. For years, fishermen dumped this waste into the Gulf of Mexico. But they weren't just trying to get rid of junk; they were trying to create artificial reefs that would help attract fish. For…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (82+ words) Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the busiest'National park in the U.S., but with the park service cutting nearly a quarter of all positions last year, volunteers have made up the difference. Volunteers help make up the difference after national parks…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (76+ words) Plastic from Canada that dates from the 1960s recently washed up on the shores of a Scottish island. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to David Warner from Orkney, Scotland who made the discovery. Canadian plastic from the 1960s washed up on the shores…...