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Polls show Hillary Clinton is leading among white, college-educated voters — a demographic group that has consistently voted Republican for decades. But Donald Trump has pushed many over to Clinton.

“I can hear how the bees are behaving — if they’re agitated, if there are other bees trying to get in the hive, or if it’s too crowded or too hot or too cold,” said Aerial Gilbert, an avid beekeeper in Petaluma. What you want to hear, she said, is a calm steady buzz. That … Continue reading Blind Beekeeper Relies on the Sound of the Swarm to Keep Her Hives Happy →

When Aerial Gilbert went blind, beekeeping was something she figured she’d have to give up. But in the 30 years since, she's found ways to do things she used to — and that's meant relying a lot more on the power of sound.

Housing activists are enlisting renters who can and can't pay rent starting May 1 to sign a pledge with the goal of putting pressure on landlords and policymakers.

For one family who lost both their mother and their father to the coronavirus, palliative care clinicians helped them face "the awful, awful truth."

As they drill more wells to water crops, drought-stricken farmers in southwest Spain confront environmentalists in Doñana National Park, a migratory bird refuge that's lost 80 percent of its aquifer.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with war photographer Paul Conroy about the new documentary Under The Wire that tells the story of the last moments of war correspondent Marie Colvin's life.

After losing her home in the fire, Mary Kelly was transformed from a working-class mother to “the arch agitator of the refugees.”

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Amy Lee, the co-founder and singer of Evanescence, about her band's first new album of original material in almost a decade.

Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. lost a close friend from college to police violence. His podcast explores different aspects of the movement for Black lives — including Tejan-Thomas Jr.'s personal history.