Climate What To Expect From The U.N. Climate Action SummitNPR - Rebecca Hersher World leaders are meeting in New York on Monday amid growing fear that promises countries have made to reduce emissions are insufficient to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
Science VIDEO: Tree Scientist Inspires Next Generation ... Through BarbieNPR - Madeline K. Sofia , Maia Stern , Becky HarlanWhen Nalini Nadkarni was a young scientist in the 1980s, she wanted to study the canopy – the part of the trees just above the forest floor to the very top branches. But back then, people hadn't figured
Science (India) Ahead Of Climate Summit, 2 Views From Cities In Canada And IndiaNPR NPR's Melissa Block speaks with two U.N. Climate Change Summit attendees: Lisa Helps and Minal Pathak. The summit begins Monday.
Science EPA Administrator Weighs In On California Emissions DecisionNPRNPR's Audie Cornish speaks with EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler about the administration's plans to revoke California's authority to set its own vehicle emissions standards. California today filed its
Health Care A New Way Of Paying For Maternity Care Aims To Reduce C-SectionsNPR - Carmen Heredia RodriguezThe thrill of delivering newborns helped pull Dr. Jack Feltz into the field of obstetrics and gynecology. More than 30 years later, he still enjoys treating patients, he says. But now Feltz is also working
Science A Rising Generation Asserts Itself On Climate ChangeNPR - Jeff BradySpurred by what they see as a sluggish, ineffectual response to the existential threat of global warming, student activists from around the world are skipping school Friday, for what organizers call a
Science To Better Understand The Arctic, This Ship Will Spend A Year Frozen Into The IceNPR - Ravenna KoenigThe mission is known as the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate, or MOSAiC. Its overarching goal is to collect a vast trove of data that can help improve how the Arctic
Science Youth To Protest In Manhattan To Stop Climate ChangeNPRThousands of students are expected to skip school Friday to march through Manhattan to demand global action to stop climate change. WNYC's Gwynne Hogan reports the protest has been long in the works. to
Birds North America Has Lost 3 Billion Birds, Scientists SayNPR - Nell GreenfieldboyceOver the past half-century, North America has lost more than a quarter of its entire bird population, or around 3 billion birds. That's according to a new estimate published in the journal Science by who
Science The Perks And Perils Of Plant Parenthood - 1Athe1a.org Houseplants are having a moment. A 2018 National Gardening Survey found that 77 percent of American households are now gardening — and young people …
Diabetes It's Not Just Insulin: Diabetes Patients Struggle To Get Crucial SuppliesNPR - Bram Sable-SmithIn the first three months after getting his Dexcom continuous glucose monitor, Ric Peralta managed to reduce his average blood sugar level by three percentage points. "It took me from not-very-well-managed
Elephants Using AI In Malawi To Save ElephantsNPR - Dina Temple-RastonPoachers killed almost a third of the African elephant population between 2007 and 2014, a recent census found. Researchers hope artificial intelligence can help stop poachers and other threats, too. failing
Technology Meet The Nuclear-Powered Self-Driving Drone NASA Is Sending To A Moon Of SaturnNPR - Geoff BrumfielOn the face of it, NASA's newest probe sounds incredible. Known as Dragonfly, it is a dual-rotor quadcopter (technically an octocopter, even more technically an X8 octocopter); it's roughly the size of
World News Sophistication Of Saudi Airstrike Points To Iranian InvolvementNPR - Geoff BrumfielAn attack over the weekend crippled a major Saudi Arabian oil facility. Evidence suggests the strike may have involved both missiles and drones and means Iran probably played a role. Who attacked a major
Business Vineyards Facing An Insect Invasion May Turn To Aliens For HelpNPR - Dan CharlesWalking around a park near Allentown, Pa., I didn't even notice the bugs at first. Then Heather Leach arrived. She's an insect expert from Penn State University. She pointed me toward the trees, and suddenly
Aspirin A Daily Baby Aspirin Could Help Many Pregnancies And Save LivesNPR - Selena Simmons-DuffinBridget Desmukes was surprised when Dr. Rita Driggers, Desmukes' OB-GYN in Washington, D.C., recommended low-dose aspirin at her first prenatal appointment this past spring. She knew about daily low-dose
Books A Fire Lookout On What's Lost In A Transition To TechnologyNPR - Nathan RottCan you see it? The fire in the photo above? There's a flash of lightning, sizzling across the sky. Then a pause as bark smolders and flames creep, building heat until poof: a signal in the sky. Philip
Culture In 'Something Deeply Hidden,' Sean Carroll Argues There Are Infinite Copies Of YouNPR - Adam FrankEveryone knows we live in a partisan age. It's hard to find any issue these days that people aren't ready to square off on, with sharp, snarky barbs. While no one will be surprised to find these kinds
Science Friday News Roundup - International - 1Athe1a.org In the northern Bahamas, 2,500 people are still missing in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. The Catagory 5 storm left at least 50 people dead. The death …
Yale School of Management Finding Meaning At Work: How We Shape And Think About Our JobsNPR - Shankar Vedantam , Max Nesterak, Thomas Lu , Tara BoyleWhy do you work? Popular wisdom says your answer depends on what your job is. But psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski at Yale University finds it may have more to do with how we think about our work. "People
CRISPR CRISPR Gene-Editing May Offer Path To Cure For HIV, First Published Report ShowsNPR - Rob SteinThere's been a lot of excitement lately that the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR could offer a new way to treat health problems ranging from cancer to blindness. But there hasn't been much direct
Prenatal Development Scientists Create A Device That Can Mass-Produce Human EmbryoidsNPR - Rob SteinScientists have invented a device that can quickly produce large numbers of living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos. Researchers welcomed the development, described Wednesday in the
Wilbur Ross Wilbur Ross At The Center Of Another Political Storm, This Time About The WeatherNPR - Scott HorsleyCommerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is under the microscope again, amid fresh allegations of meddling with a government scientific agency. The latest storm to engulf the secretary began Sept. 1, when weather
Science How The Trump Administration's Attacks On Science Put Americans At RiskNPRNPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Gretchen Goldman, researcher with the Union of Concerned Scientists, about how the Trump administration's attacks on science have put Americans' health and safety at risk.
Animals EPA Chief Pledges To Severely Cut Back On Animal Testing Of ChemicalsNPR - Nell GreenfieldboyceThe Environmental Protection Agency says it will aggressively reduce the use of animals in toxicity testing, with a goal of eliminating all routine safety tests on mammals by 2035. Chemicals such as pesticides
Purdue Pharma What A Settlement By Purdue Pharma Means For The Opioid Crisis - 1Athe1a.org A settlement between the Sacklers, its company — Purdue Pharma — and multiple state and local governments is in jeopardy after the family initially …
EPA Federal Watchdog Warns EPA Is Failing To Enforce Lead Paint Abatement RulesNPR - Rebecca HersherLead-based paint was extremely popular in the early and mid-20th century — used in an estimated 38 million homes across the U.S. before it was banned for residential use in 1978. The risk didn't stop the
Science Scientists Says Politicization Of The Weather Will Not Affect How They Do Their JobsNPR - Mary Scott HodginAt the National Weather Association conference in Huntsville, Ala., this week, scientists say the politicization of weather is cause for concern, but will not affect the way they do their jobs. The top
CIA The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'NPR - Terry GrossDuring the early period of the Cold War, the CIA became convinced that communists had discovered a drug or technique that would allow them to control human minds. In response, the CIA began its own secret
