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Cook County morgue workers walk between a row of refrigerated trucks outside the morgue in July 1995, when a deadly heat wave struck Chicago.

When Heat Kills: Global Warming As Public Health Threat

Emerging science shows that people respond more favorably to warnings about climate change when it's portrayed as a health issue rather than as an environmental problem. Should the symbol for danger be a child instead of a polar bear?

The bright colors and throwback feel of the Chilean drama <em>No</em> mask the very real political consequences of the 1988 plebiscite it depicts. (Pictured: Gael Garcia Bernal as Rene Saavedra)

The Story Of 'No' Is The Story Of Modern Chile

The Chilean political drama No is the first film from that country to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award. The powerful, poignant film uses an unlikely main character to chart the surprising end of a dictator's reign.

25 Years Later, The Enduring Relevance Of The Los Angeles Riots

The 1992 Los Angeles riots left more than 50 people dead and destroyed an estimated $1 billion in property all over the city. NPR explores how people in LA think of the riots 25 years later and why the event is still relevant.

African Americans and other under-represented minorities make up only about 5% of the people in research studies

Neuroscience Has A Whiteness Problem. This Research Project Aims To Fix It

People of African ancestry have been excluded from many studies of brain disorders. In Baltimore, scientists, doctors and community leaders are working to make neuroscience research more diverse.

A fisherman in a kayak makes a cast on Lake Arthur at Moraine State Park in Portersville, Pa. Sales of camping, outdoor and recreational equipment have been surging.

Amid A Deep Recession, Outdoor Equipment Is Flying Off The Shelves

Kayaks and bicycles are now almost impossible to find in stores across the country. People who were able to keep their jobs and those who got expanded unemployment benefits have been driving demand.

Valholly Frank at a climate change demonstration.

Young Seminole Tribe Member Sues Ron DeSantis

As flooding becomes more frequent, and hot, sticky Florida gets even hotter, a group of young people, ages 13 to 21, are suing Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Secretary of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried, and Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah Valenstein, among other officials, over climate change. The eight young people are asserting their right to a healthy future is at risk in Reynolds v. Florida.

In New York, Video Chat Trumps Quarantine To Combat TB

Ebola isn't the first dangerous microbe to spur calls for quarantine in American cities. But as New York City's experience with drug-resistant tuberculosis suggests, isolation isn't always best.

Saeed al-Batal, a Syrian photographer, posted this image from Douma, Syria, on his Facebook page on March 31.

The View From Inside Syria

Saeed al-Batal is a pseudonym for a Syrian photographer who lives in a rebel area near the capital, Damascus. In one of his periodic talks with NPR, he says he has just lost his home again.

A portrait of the late Dr. Li Wenliang at his hospital in Wuhan, China. Li was a whistleblower in the early days of the country's coronavirus pandemic and died of COVID-19 on Feb. 7, 2020.

Dear Dr. Li: Chinese Netizens Confess To The Late Coronavirus Whistleblower

Feb. 7 marks the one-year anniversary of Dr. Li Wenliang's death from the virus he'd warned about. His legacy lives on through his Weibo page, which has become a kind of confessional.

Reesha Howard, who calls herself the "Queen of Spaces," was one of the first users of Twitter's audio rooms, known as Spaces.

Social Audio Began As A Pandemic Fad. Tech Companies See It As The Future

Live conversations on Clubhouse and Twitter took off during the pandemic, connecting people online when they couldn't in real life. Now social media companies are scrambling to launch audio features.

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