Environment

Don't clear your lawn of all leaves, and keep your drying flowers just the way they are to help the birds.

On this episode of Audacious, meet a winter caretaker at Yellowstone, a runner-up from the t.v. show, Alone, and a man who spent almost 30 years in solitary confinement.

A severely entangled right whale was spotted 15 miles south of Nantucket on Wednesday by researchers from the New England Aquarium. The 17-year-old whale known as Snow Cone was carrying fishing gear from a new entanglement, along with gear from an earlier incident.

More than 1,300 donors from across Connecticut and 34 other states outbid to close the sale of the Killingworth campgrounds to conservationists for $4.75 million, instead of a private developer.

For more than two decades, Stephen Leslie has worked to restore 60 acres of farmland in Hartland, Vermont. In the final installment of our Summer School series, Vermont Public’s Elodie Reed took a walk with him to learn how.

Work is underway on the Velomont Trail, which is a plan to connect nearly 500 miles of mountain bike routes from Vermont’s southern border up to Canada, with a series of huts along the way. As part of our Summer School series, we spent a rainy morning with one of the trail builders.

To gauge the amount of methylmercury in the environment, the National Park Service launched a research project more than a decade ago that measures the toxin in dragonfly larvae.

In its announcement, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program says a review of scientific data shows current management measures don't go far enough to mitigate entanglement risks and promote recovery of the North Atlantic right whale.

Frankie & Johnny: September 2, 2022. This is a brief week-in-review update that premieres during All Things Considered on Connecticut Public Radio, Fridays at 4:44 p.m. Topics include federal authorization of COVID-19 vaccines aimed to combat Omicron strains, a civil rights group alleging that the town of Woodbridge violated state fair housing laws, and record temperatures in August.

A Brookfield-based chemicals company will pay $179,000 in a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after it was cited for unsafe chemical storage practices and potential violation of the Clean Air Act.