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Heat waves today are not the same as 60 years ago. The warming climate is making them more intense and they're lasting longer. Here are five ways you can beat the heat and stay cool.

"A World Cup is a grueling four-year process to get to that point," the soccer superstar tells NPR. Now she'll try to follow up the 2019 title with an Olympic gold medal.

Mount Shasta is the very visible volcano in Siskiyou County. But a few dozen miles away lies Medicine Lake Highlands, a shield volcano (flatter) that…

Fish farming could be key to feeding future generations — and some are hoping Oregon can cash in.

How bad was last summer for tourism in the region? Millions of dollars bad, with cancellations and actual destruction from fire and smoke reaching new…

50 years ago, kids looked forward to Columbus Day, because it usually meant they got October 12th off from school. Times and attitudes toward Christopher…

Banks and post offices took the day off, calling it Columbus Day. Other people choose to observe the (approximate) date of Columbus's arrival in the "new…

Cleveland is trying to create a less car-centered city, against tough odds. But public transit and walkable neighborhoods can help solve two problems at once: climate change and fairness.

"It's just the inefficiency of trying to fix something which is orbiting 400 miles over your head instead of in your laboratory," said Paul Hertz, the director of astrophysics for NASA.

An investigation from CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention. The investigation found Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities.