Environment

Fresh Air remembers Mantel, the Wolf Hall author who died Sept. 22. Maureen Corrigan reviews Less is Lost, by Andrew Sean Greer. Enninful became the editor-in-chief of British Vogue in 2017.

Funding for school-based mental health under the new $11 billion Safer Communities Act is expected in Connecticut this school year, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told Connecticut Public Radio. The legislation covers gun safety, access to pediatric mental care and recruiting counselors and mental health professionals at schools.

Dominion Voting Systems' lawyers want to question the Fox News star again over texts they got just hours before she sat for a sworn deposition. Dominion sued Fox over false claims of election fraud.

Some have required rescues, while others are hunkered down and depending on generator power as crews begin to sort through the damage.

Do you take water for granted? Well consider for a moment that according to the U.S. Drought Monitor Report, the entire state of Connecticut is in a drought as of this writing.

State officials declared a stage 3 drought level for New London and Windham counties in eastern Connecticut.

Scientists aren't sure why a group of Connecticut's periodical cicadas disappeared nearly 70 years ago.

Heat doesn’t affect everyone equally. Maps from UConn's Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation show who is most vulnerable to heat.

Few of us get to escape heartbreak. This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, the science, language, and culture of heartbreak — including why we’re so attracted to sad songs.

This hour, we look at what's going on with the pandemic with doctors from Yale and Hartford HealthCare. Plus, what do we know about Paxlovid and why its results vary?

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: What is stickiness, scientifically speaking? How do geckos climb? Why don’t Post-it Notes ruin our books? And: A look, specifically, at chewing gum.

Connecticut opened monkeypox testing and vaccination centers this week.