NPR Topics: Environment Podcast

Stories: 1) 'Torture Lab' Kills Trees To Learn How To Save Them 2) Is It Too Late To Defuse The Danger Of Megafires? 3) In Southwest, Worst-Case Fire Scenario Plays Out 4) 'Carbon Nation' Tackles Climate Change, By Ignoring It 5) Methane Making An Appearance In Pa. Water Supplies

Stories: 1) Solar Toilet Disinfects Waste, Makes Hydrogen Fuel 2) Wood Energy Not 'Green' Enough, Says Mass. 3) How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires 4) How A Biofuel Dream Called Jatropha Came Crashing Down 5) Why Forest-Killing Megafires Are The New Normal 6) The City As Engine: Energy, Entropy And The Triumph Of Disorder

Stories: 1) When This Oil Spills, It's 'A Whole New Monster' 2) Some Idaho Farmers Pray, Others Turn On The Water 3) Joplin's New Trees Struggle To Survive Amid Drought 4) Germans Confront The Costs Of A Nuclear-Free Future 5) Scorching Phoenix Plans For An Even Hotter Future

Stories: 1) Building For Birds: Architects Aim For Safer Skies 2) A Clear And Present Danger: How Glass Kills Birds 3) No Space, Mate: Koalas' Habitat Under Threat 4) Changing Views About A Changing Climate 5) This Drought's No Dry Run: Lessons Of The Dust Bowl

Stories: 1) America's 'Most Polluted' Lake Finally Comes Clean 2) Thank The Simple Wasp For That Complex Glass Of Wine

Stories: 1) Rifts Emerge Amid 'Frac Sand' Rush In Wisconsin 2) Summer Science: Clothes Keep You Cool, More Or Less 3) Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Abnormal Blazing Speed 4) In Drought-Stricken Midwest, It's Fodder Vs. Fuel

Stories: 1) 'Sunny Chernobyl': Beauty In A Haze Of Pollution 2) Climate Change Ups Odds Of Heat Waves, Drought 3) Apple's Change Of Heart On Green Certification 4) Miners Weather The Slow Burn Of Coal's Demise 5) From Coal To Gas: The Potential Risks And Rewards

Stories: 1) Dead Reefs Can Come Back To Life, Study Says 2) Parts Of U.S. Still Gripping With Record Heat 3) How One Drought Changed Texas Agriculture Forever 4) Rising Shale Water Complicates Fracking Debate 5) Firm Blamed In The Costliest Onshore Oil Spill Ever

Stories: 1) A Tale Of Two Coastlines, Skirted By Swelling Seas 2) Bidding Farewell to Lonesome George 3) The Trickiness Of Tracking Severe Weather 4) Climate Change Buoying Wildfires Across Country

Stories: 1) Alaska Glacier Studied For Clues On Water Supply 2) Rio+20 Summit Sustains Little More Than Sentiment 3) Tropical Storm Debby Saturates Florida 4) A Nation Of Meat Eaters: See How It All Adds Up

Stories: 1) Is Density Our Destiny? 2) Famous Cave Paintings Might Not Be From Humans 3) Desktop Diaries: Sylvia Earle 4) Chanticleer: A Botanical Distraction From Daily Life 5) Rio Environment Meeting Focuses On 'Energy For All'

Stories: 1) Is Japanese Dock A Noah's Ark Or A Trojan Horse? 2) 40 Years After Killer Flood, A Reshaped City Reflects 3) A Damned Dam On The Penobscot River 4) Thinner Arctic Ice Sparks Massive Algae Bloom 5) Colo. Fire Now One Of The Biggest In State History

Stories: 1) The Many Lifestyles Of Muck-Dwelling Microbes 2) Lightning Bug Of A Different Color

Stories: 1) Forget Big-Box Stores. How About A Big-Box House? 2) Soft-Shell Lobsters So Soon? It's A Mystery In Maine

Story: Mongolia is now tapping huge natural resources. But they're in the Gobi region, where traditional nomadic herding is under assault and desertification is a major problem. Herders are worried the mines will siphon off already dwindling water supplies, while trucks and roads destroy pastureland.