The surge in satellites brings pollution and risks of repeating destructive colonial practices, experts warn.

By Bob Berwyn

The starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map guiding travelers, a calendar for migrations and harvests, a wellspring of stories. But a surge of commercial satellite launches into the upper fringes of Earth’s atmosphere threatens the relationship between people and the celestial commons by crowding the night sky and polluting the atmosphere, scientists warn.

A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?

Bowser, a 172-pound loggerhead sea turtle, was rescued from the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier Sunday. The operation was one of a growing number of rescues in areas where sea turtles and humans overlap.

By Dennis Pillion

“Pull! Pull!” shouts Scott Dexter, chanting the cadence for eight men gripping a rope. “Pull!”

A Massive Volunteer Network in Florida Works to Save Endangered Sea Turtles

The author of “When Trees Testify” on the intertwined nature of America’s history, its trees and Black Americans.

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with botanist and author Beronda Montgomery.

‘Their Breath Was Captured in the Tree’