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Gas analyst shares how attacks on Middle East gas fields might affect energy markets

How might attacks on gas fields in the Middle East affect global energy markets? NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Ira Joseph, a gas analyst at Columbia University's Center for Global Energy Policy.

Year in Review: Disasters Natural and Manmade

The year 2005 featured titanic natural disasters, from the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami to Katrina and the killer earthquake in Pakistan. But in Iraq and beyond, humans once more proved they can be their own worst enemies.

Natural Santa Claus

For all those shopping mall Santas who have to stand in for the real Saint Nick, half the challenge is presenting a believable appearance. And fake beards are really not all that convincing. Frank Martinez, vice president of operations for Naturally Santa Inc., tells Jacki Lyden how the 10-year-old Colorado Springs, Colo. company has responded, by dispatching real-bearded Santas across the country. (4:00)

Fourteen people spent 40 days without natural sunlight or clocks. The experiment was part of Deep Time's project to better understand how humans adapt to loosing all sense of time. (Deep Time © Human Adaptation Institute)

Explorer Details His 40 Days In French Cave Without Clocks Or Sunlight

Researchers in France are trying to better understand how humans adapt to losing all sense of time and drastic changes to their environment.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks to the media on March 28 in Phoenix. The attorneys general of New York and California announced Thursday that they are investigating allegations of workplace discrimination by the pro football league.

2 states launch an investigation of the NFL over gender discrimination and harassment

The California and New York attorneys general say they are seeking information from the NFL on allegations of gender pay disparities, harassment and gender and race discrimination.

Wishful Recycling Threatens Single-stream Process

Contamination in the recycling stream at Midwest Fiber threatens the business model that makes single stream recycling possible. A company representative…

State Farm faces more race discrimination lawsuits in Texas and Georgia

State Farm denies allegations raised in four race discrimination lawsuits filed in recent weeks against the insurance company. Three women and one man claim they were fired after they reported discrimination and a hostile work environment.

Illinois lawmakers passed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act in 2021. That law sets a goal to get 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030 and includes funding to build EV infrastructure across the state and provide rebates to customers for electric vehicle purchases.

State Farm removing EV charging stations from parking decks

State Farm Insurance is removing electric vehicle charging stations from its parking decks at Corporate and Corporate South headquarters in Bloomington, and at hubs throughout the nation.

There are about 1,000 genetically engineered mosquitoes in each pot. Guilherme Trivellato of the biotech company Oxitec prepares to release them in Piracicaba, Brazil, in the hope of reducing the spread of Zika and other viruses.

How Could Releasing More Mosquitoes Help Fight Zika?

A biotech company says its genetically engineered mosquitoes could help Brazil and other countries fight the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread Zika and other viruses.

The EPA's new rules point to EVs being the future — but consumers have their doubts

Electric vehicles may account for more than half of new cars by 2032. Consumers have many questions and concerns about them and the environment.

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