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This month voters elected Gustavo Petro — the nation's first leftist president. His running mate Francia Marquez also broke barriers when she became South America's first Black vice president.

An ethnobotanist travels into the Sahara Desert to research the vanishing customs of Timbuktu, once a medieval intellectual center. In the first of a four-part National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows Wade Davis for the start of a project to document disappearing cultures of the world.

A massive storm battered more than 1,000 miles of coastline in western Alaska last weekend. In the village of Chevak, fishing boats have been destroyed - leading to worries about food insecurity.

Listening sessions on the Gila and Navajo Nations discuss a path forward for survivors of federal Indian boarding schools.

Listening sessions on the Gila and Navajo Nations discuss a path forward for Native survivors of decades of abuse and mistreatment at federal Indian boarding schools.

Brazil's president-elect says the country is back in the environmental protection game. He made the announcement at this year's U.N. climate conference which he hopes will come to the Amazon in 2025.

There's a growing movement that calls for granting legal rights to natural entities such as the Mississippi River. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on July 4, 2023.)

Quinterius Chappelle was arrested on a federal charge of second-degree murder in the death of Sahela Sangrait, according to the Pennington County Sheriff's Office.

Guatemala finishes its first round of voting. A former general vowing to crack down on crime in Central America's most violent country and a businessman who promises to alleviate desperate poverty were in a near-tie in Guatemala's presidential vote.

Navajo artist and photographer Eugene Tapahe had a dream during the COVID-19 pandemic of women dancing in Yellowstone National Park in jingle dresses.