LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This summer, we'll be bringing you stories on the effects of climate change on people around the world. We begin in Spain and Portugal, where an early summer heat wave has ignited devastating forest fires. More than 60 peop...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In a little room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there's a scientific collection like no other, a room full of animal eyeballs. Want to see an eyeball from a duck-billed platypus - and who doesn't? Let's face it - o...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now for a cool summer jam. SHANTHONY EXUM: Hi. My name is Shanthony Exum. I'm a multimedia artist based out of Brooklyn, N.Y. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, THUNDER THIGHS) MISS EAVES: (Singing) Chub rub. The day is just heating u...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In Tennessee, community college is already free for graduating high school students, something many other states have done or are looking at as a model. But recently, Tennessee became first in the country to offer community...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Summer on the Chesapeake Bay is in full swing. (SOUNDBITE OF BOAT ENGINE IGNITION) SHAPIRO: We're in Maryland. We came here to find out what decades of work and hundreds of millions of dollars have done to clean up this body of wat...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The thought of their child being seriously sick can stop the heart of a parent. If that happens, it's good to know there are doctors like Kurt Newman. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Good morning. KURT NEWMAN: Hey, how are you? SIMON: He's pre...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Senate Republican leaders have said that today would be the day they'd have their health care bill rewritten, but most senators have already left Washington for the July Fourth recess. A tweet from President Trump this morning comp...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Jimmy Awards for high school theater were handed out this week on Broadway. Jeff Lunden followed two of the actors as they got ready to take center stage. JEFF LUNDEN, BYLINE: Think of it as Broadway boot camp. Seventy-four hig...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Baby Driver is a heist movie told from the point of view of the getaway driver named Baby. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, BABY DRIVER) ANSEL ELGORT: (As Baby) I'm the driver. SHAPIRO: But it's the music that really drives the movie. Chase sce...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Summer's here, of course, that means fresh peaches. When it comes to peaches, lots of people think of Georgia. But Georgia peaches are having a tough year. The state is missing something like 85 percent of its usual crop. Georgia P...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You know, when I was a kid, I watched pro wrestling on TV. The matches often featured a good guy, like Hulk Hogan, against a bad guy, a bad guy like the Iron Sheik, a cartoonish Middle Eastern evil dude. Pro wrestling played off...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's been a lot of talk lately about restoring trust in American journalism. Iowa Public Radio's Clay Masters reports that mainstream media could maybe learn from small-town newspapers about being authentic and winning trust. CL...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: What would you do if you had billions of dollars buried in your backyard? That's a question that's been debated on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Southeast Montana. The tribe sits on one of the richest coal deposits in the co...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: At a Steubenville, Ohio, hospital the other week, I heard about the expense of running an obstetrics department, including this troubling fact. One newborn in 5 there is born having been exposed in the womb to opioids. That figur...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: People are dumping dead bodies in the high desert of western Colorado. But they're scientists not criminal masterminds. NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell takes us to a place for forensic research in Grand Junction, Colo. And a caution over b...
