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An innovative program in Tampa aims to stop community violence by focusing on teens arrested for carrying guns. It offers support and mentors so they can get a new start outside of the jail system.

For 30 years, developers and conservationists fought over the flowered sand banks of Castle Hill in Lake County. As construction crews move in, a driven group of plant experts and retirees races to salvage the area’s native plants.

He was tasked with ending abuse at a federal penitentiary in Illinois but says his own staff and Bureau of Prisons officials blocked his efforts.

These tensions among agriculture, water quality and fishing play out from the Suwannee River Valley in Florida to to northern states, like Ohio, around Lake Erie. Amid ongoing discussions of the waterways’ inherent ecological value, new research zeros in on water quality and economic impacts of future land use changes.

The EPA's environmental justice office potential closure hits over-polluted communities, yet they fight on.

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, media correspondent David Folkenflik talks about covering President Trump's contentious relationship with the media, including reporting on NPR, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

Many of New Zealand's unique birds are heading toward extinction. So the country is taking on an ambitious conservation project: eradicating the invasive species that prey on them.

Millions of Americans face sharply rising costs for health care plans they bought through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, unless Congress acts soon. Here's what's at stake for them.

Congress is wrapping up the year without a lot of legislative accomplishments under its belt and a growing list of lawmakers who are retiring. Former members say the challenges on Capitol Hill have been brewing for a long time.