Lauren Sommer
speaker
391 appearances
50 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Lauren Sommer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Many U.S.
forests are overgrown with vegetation, which puts them at risk of extreme wildfires that kill trees and spread into communities.
So the Forest Service does work every year to reduce that risk.
They often set controlled burns during the cool season, which clears out the underbrush.
In 2025, the Trump administration burned only about half the area that was burned in recent years.
In a statement, the Forest Service says that's because staff was occupied fighting wildfires last year.
But some wildfire experts say the work slowed down after the Trump administration tried to shrink the agency last year, leading to the loss of thousands of employees.
Lauren Sommer, NPR News.
It's the annual spring migration.
Almost 250 million birds are traveling across the U.S.
right now.
Most birds migrate at night, and some are on journeys that take them from South America all the way to the Arctic.
Artificial lights, like from buildings, can interfere with their navigation.
So conservation groups are asking residents to turn out or dim non-essential lights overnight for the next few weeks.
The biggest hotspots are in the South, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic states, as well as the West Coast.
Lauren Sommer, NPR News.
Zeldin spoke at a conference of the Heartland Institute, a free market group that denies that humans are contributing to climate change.
Scientific research shows that burning fossil fuels has increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the highest level in human history.
That traps heat, raising temperatures and making weather events like hurricanes more extreme.
Zeldin celebrated the EPA's decision to stop regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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