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The offshore drilling industry now has equipment on standby to respond to a similar emergency. But critics says stronger regulation is still needed to prevent another massive oil spill.

The author grew up in Ghana and had certain impressions of what happened during the slave era. And then he read Barracoon.

The Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California's history, has killed at least 56 people. On Wednesday, the Butte County Sheriff's Office said 130 people are still missing.

NPR's Rachel Martin and Morning Edition poet in residence Kwame Alexander look back on the conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Gretchen Bakke about the fragility of the U.S. power grid that were made evident amid a winter storm in Texas earlier this week.

The governor was criticized for cutting funds for affordable housing in his first term, but signed a landmark housing package in 2017.

Climate change has shrunk the wetlands in the Andes where livestock graze. Could reviving ancient water systems bring back the grass?

We've complied a list of the most popular stories that resonated with our audience this year.

This year alone, some 5,000 migrants have attempted to cross from northern Italy into France, according to local municipalities and aid groups. Some have perished along the way. Many are sent back.

At a time when the United States is enjoying the lowest unemployment rate in a half-century, California's Imperial Valley suffers from a shortage of good jobs.