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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.

Astronomer Wanda Diaz-Merced, who is blind, describes her experience listening to Monday's solar eclipse with a device called LightSound.

A new study confirms that the vast majority of scientists who research the climate accept that the planet is warming and human beings are largely responsible. Yet a large slice of the American public believes that scientists are deeply split about global warming.