The rise and fall…and rise...of the island fox 20 years ago, foxes on Santa Cruz started dying at an alarming rate. Their numbers dropped to around one hundred animals. But nobody knew why. It was an ecological whodunnit that needed to be solved before the foxes disappeared forever. Chris Morgan
Canada Battles More Than 180 Wildfires With Hundreds Dead In Heat Wave About 90% of the village of Lytton was destroyed by fire. It comes while hundreds have died in a massive heat wave that's affecting British Columbia and the western U.S. Jeannette Muhammad
Life Kit: How To Beat The Heat Amid a record heatwave in parts of the country, NPR's Life Kit brings us so tips to stay safe and cool during this extreme heat.
UFOs, gray wolves, and restorative justice, this week Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with Crosscut reporter Hannah Weinburger, South Seattle Emerald publisher and Seattle Times columnist Marcus Harrison Green, and Crosscut's Editor-at-Large Knute Berger. Alec Cowan
A Mystery Illness Is Killing Mid-Atlantic Songbirds Wildlife officials are asking people not to feed birds or provide bird baths amid dozens of reports of mysterious songbird deaths. Jeff Brady
The town that broke Canada’s heat record has burned to the ground Washington state might feel the effects of British Columbia’s crushing heat and fires in the water as well as in the air. John Ryan
Exxon Lobbyist Caught On Video Talks About Undermining Biden's Climate Push ExxonMobil has condemned the comments of one of its lobbyists secretly recorded by undercover climate activists. The man described pushing lawmakers to weaken President Biden's infrastructure bill. Jeff Brady
The White House Is Seeking To Soothe Worries That It's Pushing Climate Plans Aside Environmental advocates are worried that many climate change proposals got pushed out of a bipartisan infrastructure deal. But the White House insists they'll be in another big spending measure. Scott Detrow
Portland's Top Health Official On Preparing For Extreme Weather As The 'New Normal' NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Portland's lead health official, Jennifer Vines, about the extreme heat's impact on the Pacific Northwest.
Glacial rivers rage as heat wave bites into Northwest snowpack At mile-high Paradise on Mt. Rainier, 30 inches of snow melted in just four days of extreme heat. John Ryan
