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In a powerful memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey surveys the storm-battered landscape of the place she once called home. Beyond Katrina is a powerful meditation on things long gone that will never come back.

From the Danish modern furniture of the 1950s to the omnipresence of Ikea, Americans have long been attracted to the austere design of Nordic countries. Now a massive festival in Washington, D.C., showcases artists and designers from the very top sliver of the globe.

Arizona is experiencing its worst drought in 1,200 years, but in one place there's too much water. Hundreds of homes in Flagstaff are threatened by brief monsoon thunderstorms on wildfire burn scars.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Admir Masic, professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, about what made concrete used by Ancient Romans so incredibly durable.

Cryptocurrency turmoil is affecting crypto miners, who require lots of electricity to operate. Energy costs are up, and demand is down.(Story aired on All Things Considered on Dec. 15, 2022.)

The Bloomington nonprofit known as PATH says it’s experienced high demand for the newly expanded 988 suicide prevention and crisis hotline.

Cryptocurrency turmoil is affecting crypto miners, who require lots of electricity to operate. Energy costs are up, and demand is down.

This cousin of the raccoon is the first new carnivore discovered in the Western Hemisphere in 35 years. Native to the Andes Mountains of Colombia and Ecuador where it's still living, the olinguito was actually first identified in a Field Museum specimen storage room in Chicago.

Author Adam Brent Houghtaling has put together an encyclopedia of the best music to pair with melancholy moments.

You may not find South Sudan at the top of most dream destination lists, but the authors of a new travel guide say the young country, long isolated by a violent civil war, has much to offer tourists in search of wildlife, culture and natural beauty.