Ravenna Koenig
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Climate change is so dramatic in northern Alaska that the effects on hunting and erosion are very real to people who've lived their whole lives there. -
Development of the first oil production facility in federal Arctic waters will take longer than planned. That's because warming temperatures are melting the sea ice needed to build it. -
Spring thaw brings the chance to pick up trash hiding under the snow--and it's also time to prepare for the "state bird." (The mosquito.) -
A total of 178 people were rescued Saturday from a tractor-trailer in Mexico in an apparent smuggling incident that mirrors a similar incident earlier this month where 10 people died in Texas.
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The 23-year-old Texan won his third major golf tournament. -
When Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was a high school junior, her family was sent to a Japanese internment camp. Now, she was finally able to participate in her hometown's high school graduation. -
Jason Haaheim was a senior scientist at a nanotech company before deciding he wanted to play in a professional orchestra. He's now principal timpanist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. -
For her new album, Simone Schmidt, who performs under the name Fiver, researched the stories of women committed to the 19th-century Ontario institution for the criminally insane. -
![Feist says her goal with <em>Pleasure</em> is to "[go] back to a place that would be sustainable, that I can imagine enjoying when I'm 90."](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3744330/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1637x912+0+158/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2017%2F05%2F06%2Fmain-photo-16028_080_133-4e6cc314e4ffac27e1cadb888f4cbc7aa194da32.jpg)
That message is embedded in the Canadian singer's new album, Pleasure. "I appreciate the perspective that 28-year-old Leslie's shed on my life," she says. "I kind of want to echo that forward." -
The Glee star was cast in Les Misérables when she was 8 and has been performing ever since. She says her new album, Places, intentionally calls back to her history onstage.
![Feist says her goal with <em>Pleasure</em> is to "[go] back to a place that would be sustainable, that I can imagine enjoying when I'm 90."](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6292b0d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1637x912+0+158/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2017%2F05%2F06%2Fmain-photo-16028_080_133-4e6cc314e4ffac27e1cadb888f4cbc7aa194da32.jpg)
