“Reports & Events” is a monthly tip sheet for the news media that highlights selected meetings of interest and reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. PCOR provides ...

2021 was another catastrophic and deadly year for weather and climate disasters in the USA, federal scientists announced Monday. There were 20 separate disasters that each cost at least $1 billion in ...

If 2020 was the year everything seemed to shatter in Portland, 2021 was a time this city looked into the cracked mirror—and recoiled. The year began with plywood-covered windows; it ends with tent ...

Can we get a refund on 2021? We didn’t like 2020, either, for obvious reasons — cough, COVID — but we counted on 2021 being so much better with the arrival of not one but three vaccines to combat the ...

A historic deep freeze that crippled Texas. A deadly hurricane that wreaked havoc from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast. A record-shattering heat wave and historic drought in the West. And a ...

From NPR's yearly reading list, Books We Love, three NPR colleagues share their suggestions for reads on current events. While I love to escape with a good novel, especially these days, I also read a ...