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NPR's Richard Harris talks with host Scott Simon about the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors, one year after multiple meltdowns there spread radioactive materials across a swath of northern Japan. Huge technical challenges remain and prospects for resettling the area are uncertain.

When the Grim Reaper comes, I want to be as far away from there as I can.

People make little outfits for their iPod! I'll appear in public headphone-free. I gotta go.

{Krulwich Wonders} "At 225 feet above sea level, hanging on the rock surface, there is a small, spindly little bush, and under that bush, a few years ago,…

{NPR's Kitchen Window} "The wind chaps my face as I struggle with the key. A bag of groceries weighs down my shoulder. Jiggle, jiggle — c'mon! I pull off…

{All Things Considered} "The vast majority of the 175 indigenous languages still spoken in the United States are on the verge of extinction. Linguist…

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. is down by 16 this week to 1,973. The Houston-based oilfield…

BOSTON (AP) — The brother of one of reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's alleged murder victims says he's been told by a representative for federal…

Oklahoma tops all states when it comes to non-medical use of painkillers. A federal survey determined that 8.1 percent of Oklahomans age 12 and older used…

Iowa's so-called "Ag-Gag" law targets undercover animal rights activists who secretly take videos. Farmers say they need the legal protection to block those trying to take down agriculture, but critics ask what the industry may be hiding.