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Amtrak passenger train number 3065 with blue, red, and white livery travels on railroad tracks, photographed in motion with blurred surroundings.

Amtrak's sleeker, cleaner new trains are pulling into the station this fall

The $8-billion Airo fleet promises cleaner, more reliable service as passenger rail enjoys record ridership.

Left: Mobile education trailer labeled "Cape Eleuthera Queen Conch Conservancy" with illustrated queen conch artwork on its side. Right: Close-up of a dark-colored sea creature with large round eyes on a rocky surface, with a cone-shaped rock formation and blue water visible in the background.

Queen conch snails are in danger. So conservationists made them a hatchery on wheels

In a bid to slow the species’ decline by helping more conch reach reproductive age, scientists are deploying an innovative set of solar-powered mobile hatcheries to shelter them through their vulnerable early life stages.

Left: Street corner at 19th Avenue showing downed tree branches, street sign, and solar light. Right: Person with black dreadlocks smiling against an orange brick wall.

Gary, Indiana has been without power for 12 days. A food influencer and NBA player are coming to the rescue

Keith Lee and Tyrese Haliburton are hosting a supply drive for Gary, Indiana residents on Monday.

Aerial view of a highway with two tunnels carved through a forested mountainous area. A long freight train travels on parallel tracks alongside the highway through the dense coniferous forest.

Washington State wildlife overpass celebrates major victory: '10,000 crossings and no roadkill'

Snoqualmie Pass on I-90 sees a ‘wild’ milestone 12 years after it initially opened to animals.

A photo collage of a coral reef underwater, a man and two children at a playground, a tiger jumping out of the back of a truck, a woman holding an all-terrain wheelchair in the outdoors, and a field and a mountain

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An orangutan and its child hanging from a tree

After being rescued from traffickers, this orangutan has become a mother in the wild: 'A glimmer of hope'

Indonesia’s forestry minister named the baby Badar, a Malay word with Arabic origin meaning “full moon.” The mother’s name, Bulan, also means “moon” in Indonesian.

Yellow CAT bulldozer with tracked treads and front blade on sandy ground, rocky mountain visible in background, green vegetation surrounding the equipment.

Trump just paused border wall construction in Big Bend. Activists are still fighting to protect the region for good

A grassroots group of people across the political spectrum — No Big Bend Wall — is gaining momentum in the fight to keep a massive border wall project from moving forward.

A large black tire stands upright in a field of yellow and purple wildflowers against a clear blue sky.

California's new 'tire efficiency' rules aim to save drivers $1B a year, reduce 2M tons of carbon emissions

The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump.

An orange and white train travels on tracks through a wide valley with colorful striped mountains in the background under cloudy skies.

Latin America's first solar-powered train travels through a stunning 10,000-year-old canyon

The Tren Solar de la Quebrada travels through a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Two people look at a large map of sea surface temperatures on a screen

All the places you can find the 'rescued climate data' the Trump administration has erased

The Trump administration has shut down websites like climate.gov and other climate data projects. Academics, journalists, and nonprofit organizations are working to rebuild what has been lost.

A child rides a bicycle past a row of five pink structures with teal roofs and crosses mounted on their walls, elevated on wooden platforms beneath a large tree.

Bamboo tiny homes survive a 7.7 magnitude earthquake. They were built for the price of a smartphone

These simple one-room homes could be a new blueprint for scalable disaster housing.

Six young penguins with dark gray and white plumage stand together on sandy ground with sparse vegetation visible behind them.

Australia is working to catch 5,000 of the world's smallest penguins to vaccinate them against bird flu

Capturing wildlife to vaccinate them is difficult, particularly because the bird flu vaccination requires they be caught twice, for two doses.