Ryan Kellman appears in the following:
A tiny deer and rising seas: How far should people go to save an endangered species?
Sunday, November 12, 2023
The Key deer is losing the only place it lives, raising uncomfortable questions for the people tasked with keeping endangered species alive.
NPR's climate reporters on how climate change is causing ice caps to disappear
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Climate change is causing ice caps and glaciers to disappear. Reporters from NPR's Climate Desk talk about their stories connecting the dots between melting ice and our everyday lives.
Living in the shadow of a dangerous shrinking glacier
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Melting glaciers are leaving behind unstable lakes around the world. Millions of people live downstream, in places increasingly threatened by deadly flash floods. What will it take to protect them?
The world's melting ice has surprising impacts. Can you guess them?
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Melting glaciers and ice sheets are far from where most people live. But the impacts stretch across the planet. See if you can guess how.
Why Texans need to know how quickly Antarctica's ice is melting
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Ice in Antarctica is melting rapidly. That's driving sea level rise around the world. But some places are threatened more than others, and Texas is in the crosshairs.
The unexpected link between imperiled whales and Greenland's melting ice
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Climate change is pushing already endangered right whales to the brink. Scientists say the oceans will fundamentally shift as the world's ice melts.
The surprising connection between Arctic ice and Western wildfires
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking as the climate gets hotter. Scientists are finding it could be linked to weather that's helping fuel disasters.
'It could just sweep us away': This school is on the front lines of climate change
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Climate change is an everyday reality for students and teachers living in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. At one school, they are trying to learn more about the forces that could upend their lives.
As the Earth warms, city parks will become climate oases
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
As the Earth warms, city parks will become more and more important as climate oases. This is a day in the life of one city park.
Your local park has a hidden talent: helping fight climate change
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Millions of people rely on city parks to recharge, cool off and connect. But climate change is threatening the very spaces that help us cope with the stresses of living on a hotter planet.
Fighting to survive: Ukraine's cancer patients' struggle to find care while fleeing
Friday, March 18, 2022
Supplies are running low at Lviv's regional cancer hospital in Ukraine. The patient load has doubled and supplies in Kyiv are inaccessible. But hospital staff choose the duty of care over safety.
Far from the front lines, Ukrainians guard checkpoints and wait for the war to come
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Checkpoints have sprung up across Ukraine since Russia's invasion. Men at a checkpoint near Lviv have Molotov cocktails ready. Even hundreds of miles from the battles, the war hangs over everything.
Lviv takes in displaced Ukrainians but space and resources are strained
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Space and resources are strained in the western city of Lviv. More than 200,000 Ukrainians have temporarily settled in the city while Russian airstrikes continued this past week.
A Polish hotel recovering from its own tragic past has become a refuge for Ukrainians
Thursday, March 10, 2022
The Hotel Ilan in Poland has a renowned and troubled history for the country's Jewish community. Now, it has found a new purpose helping Ukrainians fleeing the war Russia has wrought on their country.
Ukrainian children and families are being taken in by Polish families
Monday, March 07, 2022
Many Polish families are offering temporary lodging for Ukrainians who have fled. Some Poles are fostering Ukrainian children who had been living at a home for orphaned or neglected children.
Our roads are killing wildlife. The new infrastructure law aims to help
Thursday, February 10, 2022
For the first time, the federal government is making a sizeable investment in wildlife road crossings. The goal is to help slow extinctions, and also protect people from animal collisions.
Guyana is a poor country that was a green champion. Then Exxon discovered oil
Sunday, November 07, 2021
Guyana, one of South America's poorest countries, is under severe threat by rising seas. That had made it a champion of climate action, but it all changed when ExxonMobil found oil off its waters.
Who Will Pay To Protect Tech Giants From Rising Seas?
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Coastal cities need billions of dollars to build defenses against sea level rise. Tensions are rising over where that funding will come from: taxpayers or private companies with waterfront property?
COMIC: How One COVID-19 Nurse Navigates Anti-Mask Sentiment
Saturday, March 06, 2021
At work every day, Agnes Boisvert attends to ICU patients "gasping for air" and dying from COVID-19. But communicating that harsh reality to her skeptical community has been a challenge.
Undisclosed: Most Homebuyers And Renters Aren't Warned About Flood Or Wildfire Risk
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Wildfires and floods threaten tens of millions of properties in the U.S. But most Americans get little or no information about climate risks when they move.