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Eight people are now under arrest in France, after what security officials say was an attempt to create an explosion in central Paris.

A deadly fungus is devastating frog populations around the world. In California, scientists are racing to find a way to immunize one species, mountain yellow-legged frogs, against the fungus.

The mite larvae that transmit scrub typhus were thought to live only in parts of Asia and Australia. Now three cases have been reported on an island off Chile's coast.

A survey of nearly 66,000 people worldwide reveals where parents have the most — and least — confidence in vaccines.

Hundreds of Native Americans and their supporters have gathered in North Dakota to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In 2001, NPR's Dina Temple-Raston interviewed two men who had been hauling away what was left of the World Trade Center towers. Fifteen years later, she went back to find them.

Out of tragedy, comes humanity and generosity: Shirley Brooks-Jones speaks to NPR's Scott Simon about how the residents of Gander, Newfoundland, helped her and thousands of stranded passengers.

The inscription has just been translated by a professor at Brigham Young University. The epitaph, found in Egypt, honors a woman named Helene who loved and cared for orphans.

Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

When deadly flooding rains swamped southern Louisiana last month, it destroyed lives and property. And it also caused millions of dollars of damage to the state's agriculture industry.