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When coal plants close, communities face painful transitions. Debate over one Massachusetts plant shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner…

Daniel Wood is a visual journalist at NPR, where he brings data and analyses into complex topics by paired reporting with custom charts, maps and explainers. He focuses on data-rich topics like COVID-19 outcomes, climate change and politics. His interest in tracking a small outbreak of a novel coronavirus in January 2020 helped position NPR to be among the leading news organizations to provide daily updates on the growth and impact of COVID-19 around the country and globe.

Jennifer Ludden helps edit energy and environment stories for NPR's National Desk, working with NPR staffers and a team of public radio reporters across the country. They track the shift to clean energy, state and federal policy moves, and how people and communities are coping with the mounting impacts of climate change.

New England’s energy system is at a crossroads. Economics and climate concerns are driving a shift away from coal and oil, but experts remain divided on…

How we all share in the responsibility to save the imperiled North Atlantic right whale species.

This Sunday on Arts & Ideas: a new Moth Radio Hour, a look at TV's complex role in winning same-sex marriage rights, and more.

Hurricane Sandy. It’s been called Frankenstorm and it’s causing flashbacks to the Perfect Storm of 1991, when a Halloween Nor’Easter absorbed Hurricane…

We have started this new year with quite a bit of uncertainty: We're in the midst of a partial government shutdown, there are ongoing civil wars and…

Republican Candidates for Massachusetts 9th Congressional District Mark Alliegro and Thomas O’Malley join our host Mindy Todd on The Point. The seat is…

With over 70 published books, Marty Sandler is one of Cape Cod's most prolific authors. Earlier this month he was awarded the National Book Award for…