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As climate researchers say the world must transition away from new oil and gas production, ExxonMobil is acquiring a major U.S. shale oil company with one of the country's biggest oil fields.

As U.S. wheat farmers face painful losses in the global market due to President Trump's policies, one domestic flour mill on a reservation in Oregon is expanding its production twelvefold.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer Howard Sherman about his new book, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st Century," which interviews participants from an array of productions.

Makers of products like Children's Tylenol say they're trying to keep up with big demand as RSV, flu, and COVID spread. But medical experts note that kids' fevers don't always call for medicine.

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

A shower head vendor in Texas asked customers if they'd be willing to pay more for a product that was made in the USA. The answers poured cold water on claims of patriotic purchases.

Suzanne Lummis is the granddaughter of a California pioneer, a local legend and a woman who has turned her life's misadventures into edgy poetry. She speaks with host Jacki Lyden about noir poetry set in her beloved city of Los Angeles.

Many farmers are cheering government proposals to give thousands of seasonal farmworkers a path to legal status. But even if the bill passes, it won't solve the long-term trend of fewer migrants coming north to work on U.S. farms. Farmers will instead have to learn how to do more with less immigrant labor.

Gary Campbell runs the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the lack of recent sightings.

The South Pacific country of Papua New Guinea has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world. We look at reasons why and what can be done about it.

Five years ago, Harris also said she'd "prosecute the case" against Trump. This time around, it hits a bit differently.

There are growing concerns in the mountains of North Carolina that people are trying to escape large cities like New York with high numbers of coronavirus…

In His Truth Is Marching On,Jon Meacham offers an introduction to one decade in the late congressman's life. The book doesn't quite seek to be more, but this may leave some readers disappointed.

When Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman's video of Hoffman's 60-something mother telling an off-color joke on YouTube went viral, they knew they had something special. The success of their subsequent website, OldJewsTellingJokes.com, and their upcoming book have proved them right.

Michela Wrong, author of I Didn't Do it For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation, talks with Scott Simon about this cautionary tale cataloguing the disastrous interference of foreign powers.

Who knows romance better than romance novelists? We've asked some of our favorites to share the moments that make them swoon, whether it's a snuggle on a snowy morning or a game of wheelchair hockey.

Common species of blackberries, goats and red ants are endangering the survival of far rarer flora and fauna native to the Galapagos Islands. The dire effects of such an invasion were foreseen by Charles Darwin.

Demand for traditional SUVs has fallen dramatically over the past year. As gas prices have risen, many consumers have turned to smaller cars, or SUV hybrids. Changing consumer tastes are challenging U.S. automakers, which have counted on SUVs to bring in high profits.

Jazz is strange enough for some listeners. Dig a little deeper and it gets ever so bizarre. Some musicians take instruments from other traditions and make it their own. Some go for the big and bold. Others just invent. Hear the strange worlds of Cloud Chamber Bowls, the daxophone, mollusks and more.

Gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling the weapons over the past decade, at times marketing them as a way for young men to prove their masculinity.