美国国家公共电台 NPR Drought Threatens Crops, Wildlife Along Spain's Guadalquivir River Delta

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This summer, we'll be bringing you stories on the effects of climate change on people around the world. We begin in Spain and Portugal, where an early summer heat wave has ignited devastating forest fires. More than 60 peop

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'One Of A Kind' Collection Of Animal Eyeballs Aids Research On Vision Problems

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In a little room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there's a scientific collection like no other, a room full of animal eyeballs. Want to see an eyeball from a duck-billed platypus - and who doesn't? Let's face it - o

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Thunder Thighs': The Summer Anthem That Celebrates Every Woman

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now for a cool summer jam. SHANTHONY EXUM: Hi. My name is Shanthony Exum. I'm a multimedia artist based out of Brooklyn, N.Y. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, THUNDER THIGHS) MISS EAVES: (Singing) Chub rub. The day is just heating u

美国国家公共电台 NPR The First State To Offer Free Community College To Nearly Every Adult

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In Tennessee, community college is already free for graduating high school students, something many other states have done or are looking at as a model. But recently, Tennessee became first in the country to offer community

美国国家公共电台 NPR Chesapeake Bay Dead Zones Are Fading, But Proposed EPA Cuts Threaten Success

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Summer on the Chesapeake Bay is in full swing. (SOUNDBITE OF BOAT ENGINE IGNITION) SHAPIRO: We're in Maryland. We came here to find out what decades of work and hundreds of millions of dollars have done to clean up this body of wat

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Healing Children': A Surgeon's Take On What Kids Need

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The thought of their child being seriously sick can stop the heart of a parent. If that happens, it's good to know there are doctors like Kurt Newman. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Good morning. KURT NEWMAN: Hey, how are you? SIMON: He's pre

美国国家公共电台 NPR Will My High Premiums Go Down? More Q&A About The GOP Health Plan

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Senate Republican leaders have said that today would be the day they'd have their health care bill rewritten, but most senators have already left Washington for the July Fourth recess. A tweet from President Trump this morning comp

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Baby Driver' Follows Criminal Who Wants Out Of The Game

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Baby Driver is a heist movie told from the point of view of the getaway driver named Baby. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, BABY DRIVER) ANSEL ELGORT: (As Baby) I'm the driver. SHAPIRO: But it's the music that really drives the movie. Chase sce

美国国家公共电台 NPR Unseasonable Winter Weather Takes A Bite Out Of Georgia's Peach Crop

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Summer's here, of course, that means fresh peaches. When it comes to peaches, lots of people think of Georgia. But Georgia peaches are having a tough year. The state is missing something like 85 percent of its usual crop. Georgia P

美国国家公共电台 NPR Appalachian Wrestling's Greatest Villain: 'The Progressive Liberal'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You know, when I was a kid, I watched pro wrestling on TV. The matches often featured a good guy, like Hulk Hogan, against a bad guy, a bad guy like the Iron Sheik, a cartoonish Middle Eastern evil dude. Pro wrestling played off

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Small Town Papers Have Kept Community Trust

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's been a lot of talk lately about restoring trust in American journalism. Iowa Public Radio's Clay Masters reports that mainstream media could maybe learn from small-town newspapers about being authentic and winning trust. CL

美国国家公共电台 NPR People Of Coal-Rich Northern Cheyenne Torn Between Jobs And Sacred Culture

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: What would you do if you had billions of dollars buried in your backyard? That's a question that's been debated on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Southeast Montana. The tribe sits on one of the richest coal deposits in the co

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'These Kids Are Insane': Jimmy Awards Celebrate Outstanding Teen Performers

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Jimmy Awards for high school theater were handed out this week on Broadway. Jeff Lunden followed two of the actors as they got ready to take center stage. JEFF LUNDEN, BYLINE: Think of it as Broadway boot camp. Seventy-four hig

美国国家公共电台 NPR Will Giving The Ganges Human Rights Protect The Polluted River?

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to India, which is facing a different kind of crisis. It's an environmental crisis affecting the Ganges River. The Ganges is a part of what it means to be Indian. Many consider the river sacred. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports o

美国国家公共电台 NPR When She's Told Girls Can't Be Superheroes, 'Lucia The Luchadora' Grabs Her Mask

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: She wears a mask and a cape, and she faces down her detractors bravely on the playground. Lucia The Luchadora is the new children's book from Cynthia Leonor Garza where Little Lucia is told girls can't be superheroes. Her r

美国国家公共电台 NPR Award-Winning Poet Aims To Push Boundaries Of Conversations On Motherhood

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Hollie McNish is a British poet and a spoken word artist whose videos have millions of views on YouTube, like this one, entitled Embarrassed, about all the flak that McNish got for breastfeeding her daughter in public. (SOU

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rocky Mountains Treasure Hunt Turns Fatal

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A second person has now died in the wilds of New Mexico, apparently, while searching for an elusive treasure chest hidden by an eccentric millionaire. It's known as the Forrest Fenn treasure, a chest filled with gold nugget

美国国家公共电台 NPR How 'Fiddler On The Roof' (And Writing Its Sequel) Helped An Actress Find Closure

(SOUNDBITE OF PLAY, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) UNIDENTIFIED ENSEMBLE: (Singing) Tradition. Tradition. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you know any musicals at all, then you probably know the beloved Fiddler On The Roof, the story of Tevye, the dairyman, and his fa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sunday Puzzle: Follow My Lead

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We're only two days away from the Fourth of July. But here's something that won't leave you bloated like barbecue and beer. It's The Puzzle. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GARCIA-NAVARRO: Joining me as always is Will Shortz. He's puz

美国国家公共电台 NPR Writer Elin Hilderbrand, 'Queen Of Summer,' Wears Her Crown Proudly

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Writer Elin Hilderbrand is known in literary circles as the queen of summer. She has perfected the kind of book you can devour at the beach - or pretty much anywhere on a sunny day. She sets her stories in Nantucket, but NPR's Ly