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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with LA Times environmental reporter Susanne Rust about what she learned from logging her plastic use for a week.

Before its fall from grace, chop suey was a holiday tradition for families who don't celebrate Christmas, even being immortalized in songs and film.

While some cities don't like the way the native plants look, others are encouraging the climate-friendly swap.

Changing weather patterns and higher temperatures are affecting some of the most prized tea-growing regions in China and Taiwan.

Apple Cider can taste different, depending on the fruit used to make it. Now, some cider makers are seeking out wild apples to make the beverage.

More cities are trying to understand how heat gets stored in concrete and how that impacts temperatures. They're doing this through mapping the urban heat island and finding interesting results.

It's one of the most critically acclaimed, beloved gaming franchises since its release in 1987, with sequels, spinoffs, movies and books. The latest, Final Fantasy 16, is out today on PlayStation 5.

Teen movies like She's the He, Girls Like Girls and Leviticus are all turning tropes on their heads by centering queer characters.

High in the Andes, a Peruvian farmer challenges a European energy giant as a German court nears a landmark climate ruling.

Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe.

Christian conservatives who say that servicing a same-sex wedding violates their religious beliefs cite New Testament verses that suggest it is sinful not only to engage in homosexual behavior, but also to "approve" of it. Moderate theologians say such a literalist reading takes the lessons of the Bible out of context.

South Korea's new president's first move toward easing tensions with North Korea: switch off loudspeakers blaring propaganda and K-pop tunes over the border.

Taiwan Travelogue is a novel exploring a journey through 1930s Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Today, it's prompting a fresh look at the island's complex history and identity.

The Stillaguamish Tribe north of Seattle is returning farmland to the sea to save salmon and help floodproof a community that's struggled with rising tides due to climate change.

A recent Indian government ban on a film about historical police abuses did not silence the story, it amplified it.

An unreleased CDC review obtained by NPR shows that lab officials knew an early coronavirus test kit had a high failure rate. They decided not to recall it and sent it to the nation's labs anyway.

Library vans ply lonely roads and deliver books, including works in Gaelic, to hundreds of isolated residents. Seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they will have for days.

Downy mildew, once just a nuisance, has evolved into a devastating adversary to the pickle, as it now quickly adapts to fungicides and pickle hybrids, and can lay waste to crops in a matter of days.

Drug deaths in the U.S. are at their lowest level since March 2020, according to federal data. Trump continues to cite fentanyl as justification for policies ranging from tariffs to immigration.

Shawn Fein supports auto industry tariffs but calls broad tariffs "reckless."