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The changing climate is especially brutal in India. Temperatures are soaring. Asphalt roads are melting. People are dying.

GARDEN CITY — Ali Abdi usually cuts meat at the Tyson plant in Holcomb, and was at the plant when a fire broke out and destroyed part of the structure....

They live in the lead-contaminated village of Kabwe, Zambia. A World Bank loan for lead cleanup offered reason for hope. A new report assesses the current situation.

The Babur Garden is a place of respite in an often chaotic city. "Do you think the Taliban will ever accept this?" asks one man, pointing to himself and his fiancée, strolling among blooming roses.

Throwing food scraps to hogs and other farm animals is an age-old practice. As food production has become more industrialized, food factories have found…

Introvert Susan Cain is here to make the case for people who like to work in peace and quiet. Today's workplaces are designed for extroverts, she says, and put too much emphasis on group work. Cain's new book is called Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking.

By Deborah Amos/NPRhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-920498.mp3Cairo –Young Egyptians are using social media to fight…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-928142.mp3Johnson County, Kansas – Most of the conversation about Tea Party candidates…

Despite Mitt Romney's time as governor, his previous presidential run and quite a few years in the spotlight, many people still feel they don't know much about him. The clean-cut, buttoned-up candidate is notoriously quiet about his private life, and his former colleagues and friends haven't revealed much, either.

The results of Missouri's "beauty contest" primary and caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado may be poor indicators of the sentiment of most Republicans and independents. Instead, they show the ardor of the fraction of voters who turned out — and the potency of the abortion issue in national politics.