Lauren Sommer

Humpback whales have come back from the brink of extinction. But scientists are finding that their recovery is being impacted by climate change. Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Humpback whales that spend their winters in Hawaii, like this mother and calf, have declined over the last decade.

After decades of whaling decimated their numbers, humpback whales have made a remarkable comeback.

The Great Lakes saw low levels of ice cover over the winter, which was the warmest on record in the U.S.

Mikey Burke's home was destroyed during the Lahaina fire. She's joined a new effort to create a community land trust to buy properties and keep them in the community.

Several months after Mikey Burke’s house burned down in Lahaina, her husband got a text message out of the blue. It was an offer to buy their property with no inspections.

French bulldogs have skyrocketed in popularity. Legislation being considered in New Hampshire could put rules on breeding ones with chronic breathing problems.

Just after the full moon, Annika Lamb goes into work late at night. She puts on a headlamp with a red light and peers into large tanks of water in a marine science lab.

Outside the city of Townsville, Australia a group of scientists is breeding'super coral' in the hope that they might better withstand the ocean's record breaking heat levels and strengthen the Great Barrier Reef living just offshore.

Ocean temperatures have been unusually hot, which turns the corals a ghostly white. Coral bleaching is expected to get worse as the climate keeps getting hotter.