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Firefighters with Chula Vista’s new fuels crew clear a section of overgrown lemonade sumac in the canyon next to Kumeyaay Park on June 25, 2024. The three-year program was launched in 2023 and is focusing on the most dangerous canyons.

Is Chula Vista doing enough to manage its wildfire risk?

As San Diego County’s second-largest city continues to grow, emergency planning documents show its wildfire management isn’t keeping up.

A pocket gopher is seen in its home on a meadow in the Butte Camp area on the southern side of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. Gophers were taken to the northern side, which had been devastated by a volcanic eruption.

Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades later, their short visit still has visible, and vibrant, effects.

Little Crabtree Creek is littered with storm debris and vehicles, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, three weeks after Hurricane Helene flooded the South Toe River and adjacent creeks near Micaville in Yancey County, N.C.

Undocumented people are among most vulnerable to climate-fueled disasters

Many undocumented people are not eligible for federal financial disaster aid and several remain fearful even when help is offered.

Callie Goodwin, of Columbia, S.C., holds a sign in support of TikTok outside the Supreme Court, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Washington. Goodwin, a small business owner who sells personalized greeting cards, says 80% of her sales come from people who found her on TikTok.

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, threatening app's existence in the U.S.

The decision resolves a long-running legal dispute between the Department of Justice and TikTok. But experts say President-elect Donald Trump will now have considerable sway over the platform's future in the U.S.

October 7th anniversary weighs heavy as Jews enter the High Holy Days

The anniversary of the October 7th attack on Israel takes place during the Jewish High Holy Days. It's a time of ending things that need to be ended in order begin things that need to be begun.

Graduate students and demonstrators at the University of Texas at Austin protest the war in Gaza after walking out of commencement at the DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium on May 11, 2024 in Austin.

Student protests caused mostly minor disruptions at several graduation ceremonies

From California to North Carolina, students staged chants and walkouts over the weekend in protest of Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza.

Want good luck this year? Try these Lunar New Year traditions from NPR readers

Each culture that celebrates the Lunar New Year has traditions passed down from generation to generation that are thought to bring good luck. NPR readers share theirs.

President-elect Trump has made his choices for three top health positions in his next administration.

What to know about Trump's picks for CDC, FDA and surgeon general

In a flurry of picks on Friday evening, Trump named three choices for top health jobs. Together they would help the incoming president shift the priorities of agencies that are key to public health.

Rev. Jim Wallis, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Chair in Faith and Justice and Director of the Center on Faith and Justice, Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, coordinator and co-convener of Faiths United to Save Democracy, and Rev. Dr. Zina Pierre are shown speaking with poll chaplain leads at their command center in Washington, D.C.

‘Poll Chaplains’ help keep the peace at polls across 10 states

Pastors, imams, rabbis and clergy known were present at polling sites as “poll chaplains” and “peacekeepers."

The beavers in the ultra-low-budget comedy Hundreds of Beavers are all played by humans in mascot costumes and it is very, very silly.

8 off-the-beaten path movies you can stream right now

Check out the big Oscar contenders all you want, but 2024 was also a solid year for movies that didn't have big names, big studios and big marketing departments behind them.

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