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Martha Tyner drew a bow across her fiddle and grimaced at the resulting sound.“I’m a very squawky fiddler,” she explained with a grin. She finished…

NPR's Jackie Northam reports from Chicago on rising natural gas prices. Colder than normal temperatures have greatly increased demand for natural gas in much of the Midwest.

At her LA restaurant, Nakayama reimagines the Japanese tradition of kaiseki, a multicourse meal emphasizing local, seasonal ingredients in harmony with nature. She's one of its few female masters.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny sits down with the two frontwomen of Lucius, Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, to talk about their latest album.

As an energy crisis grows, some countries are more prepared because of renewable energy and electric vehicles. Pakistan reduced its reliance on imported natural gas because of the growth of solar.

David Crump, Director of Field Studies at Orielton Field Center in Milfordhaven, Wales, about the impact on the environment of oil which spilled off the coast of Wales on February 15... 20-million gallons have leaked from the super tanker, Sea Empress, after it went aground in mid-February.

In the first of a two part series, NPR's Alex Chadwick and the rest of the Radio Expeditions team travel to Palmyra, a remote atoll in the central Pacific. After turning down offers made by everyone from developers to the U.S. government, Palmyra's owners have finally sold the property to a preservation group that will leave the pristine environment untouched. Check out our Web feature on this series.

with a new marketing idea. Frequent buyers get discounts, rebates, free goodies, and other incentives to return. It's the latest effort by mall owners to lure customers in a highly competitive environment.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli concludes her series on Muslims in Europe with a look at the new religious battle lines that have been drawn between the continent's Christians and growing Muslim population. As different cultures collide in what was the bastion of Christendom, Islam is striving to adapt to Europe's cultural environment.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a monumental experiment taking place at the Glen Canyon dam on the Colorado River, upriver from the Grand Canyon. Engineers will open floodgates and recreate a spring flood, much as the canyons flooded before the dam. The idea is to find out whether the downstream environment can be returned to something close to what it was.