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Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon.

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

Stateside: Gov. Granholm is likely Biden pick for DOE; lonely pandemic songs; the joy of kid’s books

Today on Stateside, news broke Tuesday that President-Elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former two-term Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as the next…

Prescribed burns, like this one in Humboldt County, Calif., reduce the underbrush without destroying trees.

Why The South Is Decades Ahead Of The West In Wildfire Prevention

Another destructive fire season has Western states searching for ways to prevent it. The Southeast just might have the answers: setting controlled fires before the wildfires come.

The more actively we can accept and embrace our limited time on Earth, posits author Oliver Burkeman, the easier it becomes to spend our time on what matters most to us.

You can't control time, but you can change your relationship with the clock

You've got only 4,000 weeks to live, give or take. While that may come as a brutal dose of reality, it's also an opportunity to think about how you're spending that time.

One of the anchors used to hold Line 5 in place under the Straits of Mackinac.

Court rejects challenge to Enbridge Line 5 plan

The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a law that allows Enbridge Energy to build a tunnel so it can continue to move oil and natural gas liquids…

Climate action plans don't leave low-income households behind

Some cities in Michigan are putting together climate change action plans. Part of that is making everything more energy efficient in order to reduce the…

Obsession Or Just Good Hygiene? Keeping The Coronavirus And OCD At Bay

About 40% of people with obsessive compulsive disorder struggle, as I do, with contamination anxiety. Balancing the need to sanitize a home in pandemic times with the need to tame OCD can be tricky.

Civilian participants in a Kyiv Territorial Defense unit train on a Saturday in a forest on Jan. 22, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Across Ukraine thousands of civilians are participating in such groups to receive basic combat training and in time of war would be under direct command of the Ukrainian military.

From Washington to Trump to Biden, new presidents meet unwanted foreign crises

From George Washington's warning against "foreign entanglements" to Donald Trump's "America First," the pledge to keep the focus close to home has been almost as constant as the oath of office itself.

Well water is pumped into an irrigation system at a vineyard in Madera, California. California is suffering from drought, and farmers in the state's Central Valley are pumping more groundwater from their well to make up for a shortfall in water from the state's reservoirs.

Without Enough Water To Go Around, Farmers In California Are Exhausting Aquifers

California's farmers are pumping vast amounts of water from underground aquifers this year to make up for water they can't get from rivers. It's unsustainable, and the state is moving to stop it.

Enbridge to add 54 supports to Line 5 section under Straits of Mackinac

Enbridge Energy says it will begin to immediately install 54 additional steel supports along a section of Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac. That's after…

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