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Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week's Morning Edition.

Strict bans on ivory trade are aimed at preventing elephant poaching. But the measures are causing unintended consequences for Alaska Natives who hunt walruses and carve their tusks for a living.

In Florida, an effort is underway to remove more than million cubic feet of muck sullying the Indian River Lagoon, considered North America's most biologically diverse estuary. It's a mess.

Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week's Morning Edition.

While the Tiny Desk Contest judges look for a winner, we're hosting weekly fan-favorite votes on fun themes. First up: entry videos filmed in the great outdoors.

According to therapist Anastasia Locklin, procrastinating isn't a sign of laziness. It's your inner critic come to life. In this episode, she explains how you can kick the habit.

An unnamed man inexplicably loses his memory in this strange and singular film. Apples is about how we deal with grief and loneliness, especially when memory becomes more of a curse than a blessing.

Students and listeners from across the state send in their reports.

The rising price of gasoline, groceries and rent has pushed inflation to its highest level in more than four decades. Prices rose even more than expected in May.

She smokes and drinks and brings men to their knees just by crooning a breathy Habanera. She's Carmen, the supreme diva of operatic femmes fatales, the controversial heroine of Bizet's popular opera.

In 2009, the court used administrative law to uphold the FCC's decision to fine Fox for broadcasting a live event in which the singer Cher used the F-word while accepting an award. The justices ducked the censorship issue, specifically reserving it for another day. That day has now come.

The advent of bebop added a fresh sound to American music. It also added new voices to some metropolitan radio stations: the late-night jazz DJs who specialized in presenting this new music to their fellow hipster nightflies. Appreciative musicians often wrote them tributes like these.

From before bebop to the present day, some of the best jazz albums of all time have been issued by Blue Note Records. The label celebrates its 70th anniversary this week, and to honor the occasion, pianist Bill Charlap has chosen five of his all-time favorite Blue Note songs.

One of global techno's boldface names pushes himself into new territories on a collaboration album stocked with dance-music's leading lights.

A heartland rock hero teams up with Carlene Carter for some down-home spirituality.

Young's latest album with Crazy Horse, Americana, features songs many of us learned as children, like "Oh Susannah" and "Clementine."

A look back at the innovative and influential career of Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch.

Amen Dunes fourth album is a confrontation with the past, full of the nuance and contradiction of person in chaos struggling to do what's right, as well as some of Damon McMahon's strongest songs.

The British explorer may have been beaten to the South Pole, but the experiments he conducted along the way changed science forever. What Robert Falcon Scott achieved, says author Edward Larson, went far beyond what his peers accomplished.

She cried the first time she heard Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight," and proceeded to dedicate her life (and massive inheritance) to jazz. A new biography delves into the life of Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, aka "The Jazz Baroness."