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Elizabeth Shogren is an NPR News Science Desk correspondent focused on covering environment and energy issues and news.

Oceanographers fear that this year the Gulf of Mexico could see its largest dead zone ever recorded. Researchers attribute the massive annual die off of…

Reversing earlier guidance, the agency is encouraging indoor masking for fully vaccinated people under certain circumstances.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. John Heaton of LCMC Health about the uptick in vaccinations in Louisiana amid a surge in coronavirus infections.

Michele Kidd Sutton, president and CEO of the North Oaks Health System in Hammond, Louisiana, addresses the impact of the delta variant on her hospital as COVID-19 cases surge in the state and county.

There's growing evidence that omicron causes less severe disease than previous variants. Does that mean SARS-CoV-2 is evolving into a more mild virus? Will future surges be less deadly and disruptive?

Fresh Tracks looks at the 60th anniversary box set for the Kinks, a new album from Nickel Creek and new music from Paramore, the group who will open for Taylor Swift.

Your Fresh Tracks music guides have their suggestions for essential country artists for any collection.

In the Moment is SDPB’s daily news and arts program.

David Sommerstein, a contributor from North Country Public Radio (NCPR), has covered the St. Lawrence Valley, Thousand Islands, Watertown, Fort Drum and Tug Hill regions since 2000. Sommerstein has reported extensively on agriculture in New York State, Fort Drum’s engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the lives of undocumented Latino immigrants on area dairy farms. He’s won numerous national and regional awards for his reporting from the Associated Press, the Public Radio News Directors Association, and the Radio-Television News Directors Association. He's regularly featured on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Only a Game, and PRI’s The World.