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After a group of homeless mothers occupied a home in West Oakland to protest the Bay Area's high housing costs, they won a lot more than the deed to the house.

Plastic waste litters cities, oceans and even the air. Largely overlooked is how making plastic affects the environment. Plastic is a big contributor to global warming. So are its alternatives.

The NATO summit in Washington kicked off Tuesday morning. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly sat down with the top diplomats from eight Nordic and Baltic nations for a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council.

Jared Blumenfeld says ensuring safe drinking water for all Californians is one of his top priorities. He also said China's rejection of previously accepted waste materials is a "crisis" and that alternative, safer pesticides need to be developed.

When Nicole was growing up, her grandmother always told her: Don’t live anywhere built on artificial fill. Her uncle also had strong memories of watching the Marina burn after the 1989 earthquake, when parts of the ground liquefied, causing buildings to collapse and gas lines to break. Nicole wants to follow her grandmother’s advice, but … Continue reading Large Parts of the Bay Area Are Built on Fill. Why and Where? →

The coastline of the Bay looked very different 200 years ago — and then we filled it in.

Voters in a record number of states — including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada — are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

Some Oath Keepers go on trial for seditious conspiracy. Moscow confronts protests over its call-up of military reservists. Iran's foreign minister responds to the suppression of peaceful protests.

International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said Iran's nuclear program is heavily damaged, "but the material will still be there and the enrichment capacities will be there."

President and CEO John Lansing plans to leave NPR nine months before his term is set to expire. His tenure has been defined by the pandemic, a racial reckoning, and economic headwinds.