Sand is the key ingredient that makes modern life possible. And we are starting to run out. Vince Beiser talks about the crisis with Morning Edition's David Greene.
A man of science quickly becomes an irrational anti-vaxxer the minute he sees a doctor with a needle near his son.
NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Ben Taub about the reporting process for a story on human trafficking across the Sahara and the Mediterranean.
A rare known paralytic disease konzo has inflicted polio-like symptoms on thousands of the most impoverished people in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other African countries.
When there's no therapist, how can citizens in India recover from different forms of depression and mental illness?
It's estimated that about 90 percent of people in India in need of mental health treatment go without. A new program is looking to change that by training locals to be mental health counselors.
Mental illnesses hit rich and poor alike, all around the world. In India, there's also a revolutionary and successful approach to treatment that was abandoned in the US decades ago.
PBS NewsHour's Nick Schifrin was on hand as Cuba's longtime ruler Fidel Castro was buried in Santiago, where he launched his revolution more than half a century ago.
Climate change has made summers in Greenland warmer and drier, leading to a decline in the number of sheep farms on the island.
Beaches, fracking, concrete: how our hunger for sand is threatening people and the planet.
A team of young runners in Congo overcome challenges of everyday life caused by years of war and conflict.
A labor migrant from Tajikistan used his earnings in Russia to make a movie about ants.
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