Monzer's Journey: The Long, Hard Slog Of A Syrian Refugee
Editor's note: Monzer Omar is one of the more than 4 million Syrians who have fled their homeland since war erupted in that country in 2011. NPR correspondents Ari Shapiro and Joanna Kakissis followed...
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After The Pope's Visit, Boehner Decides 'Today's The Day To Do This'
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After Losing A City, Afghan Forces Fight To Push Back Taliban Advance
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Afghan forces are fighting to retake the provincial capital of Kunduz. The Taliban controls most of the city....
View ArticleA South Korean City Designed For The Future Takes On A Life Of Its Own
This story is the latest in NPR's Cities Project.Getting around a city is one thing — and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another.
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Returning To Syria For Love: Why A Refugee Plans To Leave The U.S.
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View ArticleAmong The Lucky Few: Syrian Family Rebuilds In America's Heartland
Neatly trimmed lawns divide dozens of identical two-story brick buildings that make up the Kenwood Gardens apartment complex in Toledo, Ohio. The people who live here are college students, blue-collar...
View ArticleFleas Are Great! But Watch Out For A Worm That Looks Like Vermicelli
Dr. Tim Littlewood handles more gross and terrifying creatures than just about anyone in London.And he loves it."I'm a parasitologist," he explains, "so I tend to work on things that live inside other...
View ArticleIn Tennessee, Giving Birth To A Drug-Dependent Baby Can Be A Crime
In the United States, a baby is born dependent on opiates every 30 minutes.
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Drug Treatment Slots Are Scarce For Pregnant Women
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Here's a question. If a pregnant woman does drugs and her baby is born dependent, should the mother be...
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A Tale Of Dread And Duck Breasts: One Chef's Nightmare, Retold
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: OK, it might just be dinnertime for some of you or maybe you enjoyed Thanksgiving earlier and the food coma is...
View ArticleMuch Of The World Perplexed That Climate Debate Continues In U.S.
At the U.N. climate summit in Paris, the U.S. has a big footprint. Cabinet officials scurry from meeting to meeting, trying to get a binding deal that would help some 200 countries slow the planet's...
View ArticleFor The Marshall Islands, The Climate Goal Is '1.5 To Stay Alive'
Nearly 200 countries are attending the Paris climate summit and nearly every one has something at stake. Yet it's hard to find anyone with more on the line than Tony de Brum, the foreign minister for...
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As Climate Talks Wrap Up, Attendees' Agendas Are On The Line
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This story tells us what it feels like to finish a global deal on climate change. In a word, the feeling is...
View Article'Map' Is An Exquisite Record Of The Miles — And The Millennia
The other day, a beautiful brick landed on my desk — a thick, fat, illustrated book, called Map: Exploring the World.I used GPS and went about a mile from our studios, to meet one of the men behind...
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'Legend' Chronicles Lives Of London's Identical Twin Gangsters
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript STEPHEN MARCUS: Hello, everyone.UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Hello.UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Hi.MARCUS: You're on the Gangster London Tour. This...
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Encore: Among Santa And Mistletoe, A British Christmas Includes Comedy
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Most British Christmas traditions are the same as American ones. Last year in England, I found one big...
View ArticleHillary Clinton And Jeb Bush Agree On At Least One Thing
Hillary Clinton walks a daily tightrope between attacking Republicans and trumpeting her ability to work with them. Republicans "seem to be very fact averse," she told me in an interview, shortly after...
View ArticleFlint Begins The Long Process Of Fixing Its Water Problem
In Flint, Mich., families are using bottled water to do everything — from cooking to bathing.The tap water is still unsafe to drink after government officials allowed corroded lead pipes to poison the...
View ArticleWhen Every Drop Of Water Could Be Poison: A Flint Mother's Story
The problems with high lead levels in Flint, Mich.'s water started in April 2014, when the city switched water sources and began drawing its supply from the Flint River.
View ArticleFlint Residents' Broken Faith: 'The People We Trusted Failed Us'
In Flint, Mich., government officials allowed water from the Flint River to corrode the city's pipes, leaching lead and other toxins into the tap water.
View ArticleEffects Of Toledo Tattoo Artist's Work Are More Than Skin Deep
A few months ago, when we were in Toledo, Ohio, we spotted a small item in the Toledo City Paper about a tattoo artist named Brian Finn.Finn has been tattooing for nearly 20 years. These days, he does...
View ArticleJames Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx06c0ZEBMkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGze8bbBQ-Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nck6BZga7TQ
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Memoirist Augusten Burroughs Puts It All Out There In 'Lust & Wonder'
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View ArticleIndia Struggles To Develop Without Furthering Carbon Footprint
How does a country bring its people into the 21st century without pumping huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere? This challenge is more acute in India than anywhere else. Though India already has...
View ArticleIndia's Big Battle: Development Vs. Pollution
Waiting quietly in the living room of a home in an upscale New Delhi neighborhood are a dozen people of all ages — maids, security guards, construction workers, all of whom earn at most a few dollars a...
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Experts Fear Climate Change Will Lead To More Tiger Attacks In The Sundarbans
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View ArticleSalt-Resistant Rice Offers Hope For Farmers Clinging To Disappearing Islands
In a dimly lit hut made of mud and straw, a shaft of sunlight slices through a hole in the ceiling and lands on a bag of rice. Debendra Tarek, 80, pulls out a handful of the rough brown grains and...
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Meet Bonbibi: The Indian Forest Goddess Worshipped Across Religions
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View ArticleIn India's Sundarbans, People And Tigers Try To Coexist In A Shrinking Space
In a remote corner of eastern India, far in the jungle and hours by boat from any village, there is a camp with a brightly colored shrine to a forest goddess. Behind a tall fence, a statue of Bonbibi...
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Rising Tides Force Thousands To Leave Islands Of Eastern India
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