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The weather is warming up and public spaces are starting to reopen. How do you decide what's safe to do? We have guidance to help you compare and evaluate the risks.

For nearly all its history, snowboarding has been a sport that is disproportionately white. Through his Hoods to Woods Foundation, Brian Paupaw is trying to change that.

The podcast Parched, looks at the drought that has plagued the southwestern U.S. for more than 20 years, how we got here and what we can do about it.

Secretary of State Blinken is in China for meetings. Present Biden is reviewing tariffs on Chinese imports. Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday.

Tim Fanning is a WUSF Public Media Stephen Noble intern for spring 2018.

Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.

A polar bear in a zoo, a hotel balcony overlooking elephants, a tree mural shrouded by haze: They're images from the new book The Anthropocene Illusion, about the way humans are remaking Earth.

A good primary care doctor can be your ally, helping you catch or prevent serious illness and navigate the health care system. Here's how to find a good one.

There's concern of a post holiday COVID-19 surge in cases and deaths. Plus the vaccination program is off to a slow start, and the new more contagious variant is spreading across the U.S.

More milk products come from Tulare County, California than any other county in the U.S. Public health officials there are trying to guard against bird flu infecting humans.

A months-long government offensive in northern Ethiopia has displaced millions, killed thousands and fueled charges of ethnic cleansing.

Journalist Peter Bergen visited bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, before it was demolished. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, draws on materials seized in the raid.

Among the recent positive cases is U.S. basketball player Bradley Beal, who won't play at the Tokyo Games. Across the U.S., games are on and fans are filling stadiums as coronavirus infections rise.

Early experiments in isolating inmates took place at a Philadelphia prison in the 1800s. Though discredited as cruel, the practice was later revived nationwide during the drug war.

Imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows what appears to be a large oil slick near an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

A biotech company says its genetically engineered mosquitoes could help Brazil and other countries fight the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread Zika and other viruses.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Kevin Young about his latest poetry collection: Stones. The collection is about memory and loss, his deep ties to the South and how he stays connected to the past.

Some counties are requesting extra money to cover the costs that will be incurred, including the mandate that ballot drop-off boxes be guarded by an employee of the elections office when in use.

As COVID-19 cases rise due to the delta variant, we examine who is at risk, and what's the best way to protect yourself and others. Also, with a spate of outbreaks at camp, what parents need to know.

Some archaeologists excavate Roman ruins. Others dig up garbage. In England, a project is underway to study what people threw out in Victorian times, to learn about the start of the consumer era.

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants lawmakers to focus on efforts to prevent schools, businesses and governmental entities from imposing vaccination mandates and other pandemic restrictions.

Upright Citizens Brigade, the improv mainstay and launchpad for many comics, will no longer have a physical space in New York City. Despite UCB's flaws, "people are grieving," a former UCBer says.

This darkly comic series about corporate drones who retain no memory of their lives outside the office gets quickly weirder, funnier and more thrilling after a slow-burn start.

Robert Siegel talks with actress Eva Marie Saint, and her husband, producer/director Jeffrey Hayden. Saint and Hayden talk about the recent death of Hollywood screenwriter Ernest Lehman. Saint co-starred in North by Northwest which Lehman wrote, and she and her husband were close friends of Lehman's.

Russian forces have shown few signs of advancing but are still actively destroying Ukraine. In the southern city of Mariupol, bombs targeted a school which was sheltering about 400 displaced people.