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Hundreds of thousands of people in Southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.

Dr. Meg Autry is raising money to buy and retrofit a vessel that would operate as a reproductive health clinic in federal waters off the Gulf of Mexico, providing services including surgical abortion.

Today on Stateside, we talk to Lee Anne Walters, the Flint water activist who just won the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmental…

NPR readers share their favorite tips on how to cope with heat without an air conditioner. Among the tips: take a shower with a sheet on, then wear it to bed.

NPR Tiny Desk contest winner Quinn Christopherson, drag queen Pattie Gonia and world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma would like "Won't Give Up" to be sung at climate change rallies and in concert halls.

Mass shootings and car jackings are terrifying, but suicides actually account for most gun deaths in America. Here's how some people are working to change that.

Michigan’s minimum wage is set to go up in 2023, but the exact amount could be up to the courts. That’s after a judge found the Republican Legislature’s so-called ‘adopt and amend’ strategy to be unconstitutional.

Russian forces fired its largest air barrage into Ukraine in nearly two weeks Thursday as Ukrainian air defenses repelled several drones and missiles throughout the attack.

The toxic cyanobacterial bloom that’s become a yearly problem in Lake Erie’s western basin was relatively small this year. But the bloom has lasted an unusually long time. It didn't start to break up until recently.

It's already harder to get an abortion in many places and access is likely to be limited more with the passage of new laws.