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A study suggests large mammals must learn to migrate — and they aren't exactly quick studies. It takes decades before populations can effectively move across land to find the best food.

Insect-rich floodplain water once supported the threatened fish, but it has been diverted. The project's end goal is to improve the likelihood that Chinook survive the trek to the ocean and back.

The incident prompted shock, outrage and sadness, particularly after it emerged that a flight attendant had required a family to put their young dog in the overhead bin for a three-hour flight.

Trade negotiations, such as talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are done in secret. To understand what those negotiations are like, the Planet Money podcast looks at the last big trade deal.

Actress Tippi Hedren talks with her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, and her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson, about how being a woman in Hollywood has — and hasn't — changed over the years.

Feelings seem to spread contagiously between friends, partners or groups. Why are we so easily influenced by one another's emotions? A new video from Invisibilia explains what's going on.

India's economy is growing, but job creation has not kept pace. Unemployment is at a four-decade high. Hardest hit are educated millennials, whose ambitions are bigger than those of their parents.

The vice president's visit comes as Trump's GOP challengers see the first-in-the-nation primary as a place where they'll make a stand against Trump.

Just over halfway through the baseball season, the Los Angeles Dodgers are looking dominant. NPR's Robert Siegel checks in with Jonah Keri of CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated.

June Foray voiced many cartoon characters but she was best known as the voice of Rocky the flying squirrel and Natasha Fatale in Rocky and His Friends, a TV series that ran from 1959 through 1964.

Monday's the day to celebrate the best unofficial holiday made just for women: Galentine's Day. And for that, we thank our lady of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope.

For many, Thanksgiving will be the first holiday where family gathers since the start of the pandemic. We offer some cookbooks that aim to keep meal prep easy, so there's more time for loved ones.

From howling dogs to purring cats, the Tiny Desk Contest team has heard it all. Now we're asking you: Who's your favorite pet from this year's entries?

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, opens at Disneyland Friday. The attraction features sights and sounds of the universe, including a life size Millennium Falcon where the rider gets to fly the hunk of junk.

He'd never drawn before. Then he was asked to depict the Colombian rain forest he knew so well. Naturalists cherish the ink-and-watercolor works of Abel Rodriguez. And so do art lovers.

Tonight, a new play by Athol Fugard opens off-Broadway. It's based on the story of Nukain Mabuza, a poor farm laborer in South Africa who was obsessed with creating a garden of painted rocks.

The parents of the Michigan school shooting suspect ignored numerous warning signs that included hallucinations, animal torture and obsession over guns and Nazi propaganda, prosecutors say.

The MacArthur Foundation announces this year's winners of "genius grants," $500,000 awards — with no strings attached — that recognize exceptional creativity. The 23 recipients include a ragtime pianist and a human rights activist. NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Michele Norris speak with five of the winners.

A Texas sheriff has opened a criminal investigation into flights ordered by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that took the migrants to Massachusetts. DeSantis says outrage over the flights was misplaced.

Annie Knight is the conservation specialist and grants manager for Northern Waters Land Trust and has been co producing KAXE/KBXE's Conservation Conversation series. Knight joined Heidi Holtan for a conversation about her work with NWLT and what gives her passion to work in the field of conservation. To hear the full conversation, click the "Listen" player at the top of the page.