Keeping a museum's temperature and humidity constant -- rain or shine, all year long -- takes a massive amount of energy, and it's expensive. But some museums have a solution.

The phrase "bird watching" does not take in the full range of people who love searching for wild birds. We meet a few of the many visually impaired birders who use their ears.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.

In most school districts, kids take a bus to school. But in the rural Alaska village of South Naknek -- pilot Jon King has been flying kids to school almost every school day for the last four decades.

At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to ...

Food insecurity affects more families now than during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the Federal ...

New research shines a light on the lost Franklin Expedition, a 19th-century voyage to the Canadian Arctic gone awry. NPR’s Henry Larson reports. This article was originally publ ...

Israel launched some of its biggest attacks on Lebanon in weeks, killing dozens of people and sending troops farther into southern Lebanon.

Emergency responders are focused on recovery efforts in southwest Washington State after a chemical tank ruptured at a paper mill there. This began to unfold early Tuesday. One person died and nine ...

Ben Rhodes was a speechwriter and security adviser for President Obama. His book, All We Say, is a collection of 15 speeches — from Ben Franklin to Trump — about what it means to be American.

Palestinians in the West Bank live amid garbage following Israeli restrictions. Two Palestinian entrepreneurs are trying to ...

Music is interwoven with the sounds of daily life in this West African island nation, which hosted two international music ...