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Our panelists read three stories about a dynamic duo the news, only one of which is true.

To really understand the plastic problem in countries like the Philippines, you have to understand how consumer goods there are packaged.

Fishers in southwest Florida are desperate to save their shrimping fleet, and their lifestyle, decimated by Hurricane Ian more than a month ago.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with fashion designer Aurora James about her memoir Wildflower. In it, she details her winding path in the cut-throat world of high fashion.

The four-legged creatures with digestive tracts of steel make easy work of consuming vegetation that typically fuels wildfires.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with GennaRose Nethercott about the power of folklore and her collection of strange and fantastic short stories, "Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart."

A new movement has emerged in recent years: de-influencing. What started as a backlash to advertising could now have a surprising and real-world impact on the environment.

New York City has a well known rat problem. And the city is trying to tackle it — with trash cans and by changing human behavior.

America is dotted with old oil wells that are no longer producing, but have never been plugged. In a prairie in Oklahoma, between bison and brush fires, a pipe sticking out from the ground is one tiny part of a big national problem.

The plight of the river, which empties into Lake Erie at Cleveland, helped inspire the Clean Water Act. Now it attracts kayakers and anglers and could soon be removed from an EPA watchlist.