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Deforestation rates in Brazil's Amazon are soaring under a far-right president who wants to exploit the forest's resources, including the Amazon River. A huge dam has brought in much development.

Jon Hamilton is a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk. Currently he focuses on neuroscience and health risks.

Commentator Marianne Jennings longs for the days when it was all right to say to an office-mate (of the opposite sex) "Hey, nice tie!" Instead, people roam around offices, afraid to make eye contact, avoiding saying anything nice to anyone. She suggests that Hallmark should create a national compliment day...so she can send a card.

More than a thousand people recently gathered on frozen Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisc., for a celebration of winter. But a changing climate is affecting life above the ice.

WUWM’s Susan Bence talks with people working to restore the Kinnickinnic River. Bence is WUWM’s environmental reporter. The organizations working to…

In spring 2013, the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service started an occasional series of stories about four graduating high school students who…

Climate change has caused rapidly melting ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic. Once inhospitable to business ventures, economic forecasters are now predicting some $100 billion will be invested there over the next decade. NPR's Arun Rath talks with Isaac Arnsdorf of Bloomberg about the boom.

Donald Trump has put immigration front and center in his campaign. This has placed renewed focus on the confusing question of how to refer to people from Latin America, including those now in the U.S.

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

The Vietnam War was one of the most divisive times in American history. Not since the Civil War a century earlier had so many Americans found themselves…