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When it comes to global health and development, the pontiff made it plain as day: We are all to blame for earth's problems.

Renee Montagne talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden, who is out among the crowds in Washington, D.C., ahead of Pope Francis' visit to the White House.

A rural Oregon community tries to make sense of a mass shooting that left 10 dead at a community college.

Even as fall has arrived, the number of homes and businesses destroyed by wildfires keeps going up in the drought-stricken West.

In Ramin Bahrani's new film, a man forces others out of their homes in an effort to save his own. Critic David Edelstein says 99 Homesshines a spotlight on a "poisonous financial ecosystem."

Every year, the Eternal City plays host to millions of migrating starlings. That creates problems — slippery, splattery problems. Falcons have been enlisted to drive them away, but have failed.

The world's most polluted city (according to WHO) tries to get millions of drivers off the roads with a new license-plate-based plan.

The change won't affect existing leases, which generated nearly $1.3 billion for the federal government's coal program last year.

Europe has extracted natural gas from organic waste for about a decade, and now it's spreading to the U.S. In Colorado, efforts are under way to produce natural gas from human waste and food scraps.

It's the 11th trip of his papacy and the most dangerous. The pope will visit Kenya, Uganda and Central African Republic, a nation split apart by bloody conflict between Muslims and Christians.