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The annual Fat Bear Week honors bears that have sufficiently bulked up in the months before entering hibernation.

With the resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to become the first woman governor of New York state.

In the south, the monsoon floods of summer have drastically altered the landscape, creating a lake that stretches for miles over villages and farmland. Fishermen are aiding the beleaguered residents.

Starbucks' union says workers are walking off the job at some 300 — out of over 10,000 — stores across the U.S. as contract negotiations falter. The company urges it to return to the bargaining table.

In 2015, an intense atmospheric river in Sitka, Alaska, triggered a series of landslides, one of which took the lives of three locals. Sitka chose to respond — with science.

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their farms and homes from floods. The federal government is now ready to build it.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about squid-inspired fabric, the growing height of Mount Everest, and new research into the mystery of how lightning forms.

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota is filled with more than a thousand lakes and rivers. But a recent vote in congress to allow mining nearby could threaten the preserve's waterways.

Nate Rott's beat takes him to some really wild places, asking thorny ethical questions that emerge as he reports on the natural world and humanity's relationship to it

Taylor was best known for his role as Anthony Bouvier on the TV sitcom Designing Women. Taylor's other TV series included Buffalo Bill and Dave's World. He chatted with Terry Gross in 1990.