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Josh Otten holds a female northern map turtle, left, and a male northern map turtle near the Kalamazoo River in Galesburg.

Study points to mixed results for turtles 10 years after oil spill

Josh Otten sits in a kayak in the Kalamazoo River west of Battle Creek. He’s pulled up to the bank, holding a palm-sized, wriggling…

From the top of a mountain, a snowy landscape with trees reveals a view of Lake Superior in the distance.

Plan to put wind farm in Upper Peninsula forest gets community pushback

Most wind energy projects in Michigan are on farmland in the southern part of the state. They are often controversial even there, but one company wants to…

Civil rights complaint against EGLE alleges discrimination against communities of color

Some Detroit residents and environmental justice groups have filed a civil rights complaint against the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes,…

Community solar bill aims to expand access to solar power

A newly introduced bill in the state House would allow people to buy shares in a solar array. The concept is called community solar. The bill was…

Whitmer order halts water shutoffs during virus pandemic

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order Saturday requiring communities statewide to restore water service, effectively ending water shutoffs for…

Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at UC Berkeley, says the dangers in sophisticated phony videos called "deepfakes" are amplified in their potential to travel rapidly across social media.

Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here

When they're not lighthearted movie star cameos, the digital doppelgängers have scary disinformation potential. A deepfakes researcher hopes our wariness keeps up with the tech's quickening advances.

Tribe in northern Wisconsin sues to force Line 5 shutdown

A tribe in northern Wisconsin is suing Enbridge Energy to try to force the closure of Line 5.Dylan Jennings is a council member of the Bad River Band of…

A Transportation Security Administration employee stands at a booth to learn about a food stamp program at a food drive at Newark Liberty International Airport, on Jan. 23, 2019, in Newark, N.J. A number of new rules and actions proposed by the Trump administration could affect poor or low-income people who use government safety net programs.

Trump Wants To Limit Aid For Low-Income Americans. A Look At His Proposals

Low-income Americans who use government safety net programs could be affected by a number of proposed rules and actions in areas such as housing, food aid, overtime and immigration.

Flora Purim's <em>If You Will</em> is the first album by the influential jazz fusion artist in 15 years and, she says, her last.

Her Voice Is In The Air

The Brazilian singer Flora Purim helped create the sound of jazz fusion. Now, as she releases what she says will be her final album, it's time to give her artistic legacy its due.

Audience research indicates that NPR's audience is disproportionately made up of professionals who are able to work from home and who are interested in doing so even after the pandemic subsides.

NPR Radio Ratings Collapse As Pandemic Ends Listeners' Commutes

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the public broadcaster lost about a quarter of its radio audience in the second quarter of 2020, compared with a year earlier. Even so, digital audiences surged.

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