In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard.
This year, there was some economic good news to go around. Inflation generally ticked down. Unemployment more or less held ...
Norway is the largest exporter of salmon in the world. And while some of those fish are wild-caught, many are raised in "fish ...
Short duration strikes are starting to become the norm. They mean a lot less financial pain for the workers, but they don't have same kind of leverage as an indefinite work stoppage.
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Martin Cheek, a conservation botanist for the Royal Botanic Gardens, about new plant and fungus species he and his colleagues discovered this year.
American Airlines did not have a good start to its Christmas Eve. A "technical issue" led to the temporary grounding of hundreds of flights on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
Starbucks' union says workers are walking off the job at some 300 — out of over 10,000 — stores across the U.S. as contract negotiations falter. The company urges it to return to the bargaining table.
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