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Jim Metzner, a pioneer of science radio, looks back on his lifetime of nature recordings, now heading for the Library of Congress.

Disappearances are some of the coolest unsolved mysteries. It is amazing to think of what might have become of some of the people on the list. Was a former NBA player executed by firing squad in Uganda? Did Percy Fawcett go mad in the Amazon? Was the son of Nelson Rockefeller really eaten by cannibals? The world may never know. The following is a list of people, some famous, some not, who disappeared without a trace. The list is in no particular order.

The decades-long effort to turn a tiny island at the eastern approach to Long Island Sound into a nature sanctuary has gotten a big boost from the recently enacted federal budget, which orders the gov...

After years of fighting to block development of Plum Island, conservationists on both sides of the Sound have succeeded in including language in the 2023 omnibus spending bill that supports “the permanent conservation of Plum Island for the protection in perpetuity of its natural and cultural resources” and calls on a variety of federal agencies to brief congress on how to do it.

Jim Metzner has traveled far and wide to record sounds of the world and share them with listeners. The Library of Congress will preserve thousands of tapes and other items dating back to the 1970s.