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For months, Piggy Smalls has eluded capture. A joint task force finally apprehended the pig and released it to animal rescue. Piggy Smalls will no longer be hogging all the attention in Forest Grove.

It's late August, and the leaves are already starting to change. And that flush of red you’re seeing likely comes from the red maple, also known as “swamp” or “soft maple.”

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will treat wood fuels from managed forests as carbon-neutral. It could give New Hampshire's timber industry…

The catastrophic rupture sent 1 million liters of salt water — and fish — pouring into the street. Berlin Police say two people were hurt, the result of glass shards from the aquarium's collapse.

A city official said there were "173 households presenting as homeless (not in shelters) that we have housed in hotels/motels" and the city had spent $421,246 this fiscal year for hotels providing shelter.

Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station late Wednesday in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, Mumbai. More than 100 people were killed. Police also say the attackers took Westerners hostage. NPR's Philip Reeves talks with Steve Inskeep about the attacks.

Massachusetts is housing homeless people in hotels. That sometimes means pushing current hotel residents out of their rooms and into homelessness.

Dartmouth College had a plan to build a wood chip burning plant to heat its campus. This would have added a new biomass market for landowners and…

Rare good news about orangutans: Scientists have found a previously unknown population of the great ape, living in the dense rainforest of Borneo. The discovery is a boost to orangutan conservation. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for Radio Expeditions.

Palm oil growers are setting their sights on Africa as they amp up production. More than half of the land that's been set aside for plantations in Africa overlaps with ape habitats, researchers say.