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NPR Tiny Desk editor Lars Gotrich takes you through an exceptional year in fingerstyle guitar, stretched-out jazz standards, glitched hymns and ecstatic shred.

Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read joins the Exchange.

Peter McCarville and Jan Stover join the Exchange.

Joining the Exchange is Dr. Sharon Schmidt, President of Cascade Girl.

President Trump's administration announced that it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.

The Bureau of Land Management’s state office in Oregon increased its timber sales in 2025, leading to one of its largest years for sales by board-feet and dollars in decades.

Gen Z and younger millennials are generally the most climate literate generations. As an age cohort that started learning about climate change in school, they're worried about how to plan for their future jobs, houses and, yes, kids. With climate-related disasters and global warming likely to worsen, climate anxiety is giving way to reproductive anxiety. So, what do experts say about how to navigate the kid question? On this encore episode of Nature Quest, Short Wave speaks to Alessandra Ram, a journalist covering climate change, who just had a kid. We get into the future she sees for her newborn daughter and ask, how do we raise the next generation in a way that's good for the planet? Here are the resources recommended by the experts we interviewed for this story: Action Tools and Community Resources The High-Impact Climate Action Guide by Kimberly A. Nicholas The Climate Mental Health Network and Climate Emotions Wheel The Climate Café® Hub - for finding a local group Books and Research Papers Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future, by Jade S. Sasser Parenting in a Changing Climate: Tools for cultivating resilience, taking action, and practicing hope in the face of climate change, by Elizabeth Bechard Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World, by Kimberly A. Nicholas The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions, Nielsen, K.S., Nicholas, K.A., Creutzig, F. et al. Got a question about changes in your local environment? Send a voice memo to shortwave@npr.org with your name, where you live and your question. You might make it into our next Nature Quest episode! Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

California showed it was serious about regulating Big Tech in 2025 — and Big Tech showed it was serious about coming to the statehouse and fighting back.

Flu season is off to a rough start this year, according to new CDC data. The virus is spreading faster than in previous years and the surge is likely to get worse. Here's what you need to know.

NPR critic Bob Mondello narrows down his favorite movies of the year — the ones that made audiences vibrate.