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The modern environmental movement has its roots in the idea that we humans have obligations not just to other people, but to the earth itself. In the…

Our first annual winter film series, Sunday Screenings, is under way! On Sundays throughout the winter, we are screening films at different venues around…

Guinness World Records recognizes John Turmel as Canada's most defeated politician. He's tried for office more than 90 times — losing each time. Now he's running for mayor where he lives.

Derik Mundt and Mary Sikes, two candidates running for city council in Coronado, Calif., have remained friends despite campaigning against each other. When Mundt was hospitalized, Sikes visited him.

Twenty-five years ago today, the leaders of Egypt and Israel signed a framework for peace in the Middle East. President Jimmy Carter, who mediated the Camp David Accords, tells NPR's Bob Edwards the historic agreement holds lessons for the region today.

Ceridwen Dovey says it might be too early to call herself an author, but her first novel, Blood Kin, is being published in 11 countries. At 27, she has made a documentary film about farm labor relations in post-apartheid South Africa, studied anthropology at Harvard, and is now a doctoral student at New York University.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris became president and vice president of the United States on Wednesday.

It was a tough year for Massachusetts cranberry growers.Most farmers saw below-average crops yields—some by as much as 40% according to Hilary Sandler, Director of the UMass Cranberry Station in Wareham.

A hectic, above-normal tropical storm season could produce between four and six major hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico this year, but conditions don't appear ripe for a repeat of 2005's record activity, the National Hurricane Center predicted Monday.

This year's Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to research on how light and matter act on an atomic scale.