I've ran up and down the Himalayas for stories and hand on heart I don't think people understand how fragile mountains are. If Aravalli Is Lost, Can North India Survive? www.thequint.com/climate-chan...

look at the dots www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

“Don’t kid yourself it can’t happen here.” www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

This is about the best breakdown on the restrictions of foreign reporters into Gaza, and how outlets like NPR report the conflict: with the excellent, tireless work of our Palestinian reporter, Anas Baba. www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

"Hezbollah wants to be feared when it is strong and pitied when it is cornered. It wants total freedom to act and total forgiveness when the consequences arrive. It wants to decide the war and outsource the suffering." ginoraidy.substack.com/p/hezbollahs...

Report for America is recruiting, so young journalists, dazzle them: www.reportforamerica.org

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic it takes to be a lethal dose. n.pr/3XEhzsB

"For seabirds, ingesting just six tiny pieces of rubber, each smaller than about the size of a pea, can result in a 90 percent chance of death," Baechler said. www.npr.org/2025/11/20/n...

a rare, good news story: In India, populations of the globally-threatened Olive Ridley sea turtles are rebounding after decades of patchwork efforts to protect them. One effort: inviting tourists to watch hatchlings lurch into the sea. (Of course there's caveats.) www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...

I cannot reiterate hard enough how shocking this would still look if it happened in any of the undemocratic places where I have worked: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-q...

All of this: "People who have dedicated their lives to studying one very specific thing share what is meaningful about that thing with others. In return, those of us listening experience the joy of learning something new" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

Zohran Mamdani is American. He's Ugandan. He's Indian. He's Muslim. He's the son of a Hindu mom. Meet NYC's new mayor: t.co/jIAQmabMEo

Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says. n.pr/43bcc7y

Zohran Kwame Mamdani is American. Ugandan. South Asian. Muslim. Son of a Hindu mother. I unravel some of the threads that weave the cloth of Mamdani’s identity from Mumbai, where his father was born www.kgou.org/politics-and...

A story where I get to play clips of Zohran Mamdani rapping about his grandmother (with bleeps), the hottest scene out of Mississippi Masala and an ode to the chapati as I untangle the threads that weave the cloth of Zohran Mamdani's identity. A fun listen here: www.kgou.org/politics-and...

Yuval Abraham of @972mag.com reports: "Google and Amazon submitted to highly unorthodox “controls” that Israel inserted into the deal, in anticipation of legal challenges over its use of the technology in the occupied West Bank and Gaza." www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

"a destruction of trust" masked gunmen in unmarked vehicles snatching people, including American citizens off the streets what an investigation by @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

A tale of two Indias: Hindu nationalists celebrate centenary celebrations. Across town, thousands renounce Hinduism and convert to Buddhism, in an event that celebrates the father of India's constitution, BR Ambedkar. With Omkar Khandekar in Nagpur www.npr.org/2025/10/25/n...

How to fall in love with India (again). An @npr.org postcard www.npr.org/2025/10/22/g...

‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ (and repair, and refuse) but also: Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations. theconversation.com/reduce-reuse...

When I joined NPR in 2017, I was taken around the building and introduced to our "founding mother," a phrase I found baffling - and pleasantly subversive. As was Susan Stamberg herself. There's a reason people called her Mama May your next journey be as joyful www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

Americans are so hot for shrimp that Red Lobster lost $11 million after offering a $20 endless buffet. Much of it came from India, until Trump's 50% tariffs punched the industry down and left women searching for work to pay rent. With Almaas Masood www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n...

The feeling that I am on borrowed time in my own home is a familiar one. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

“Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet.” Nazis are coopting marches in Australia against migration & the rising cost of living. The next marches are in October. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

valuable thread for those outside the trump bubble

"I'm going to tell him about you!" President Trump tells ABC's John Lyons that he's gonna dob on him to Albo. And if there's one thing Australians can't stand... it's a dobber www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

"the couple strangled the children while they were sleeping and submerged their heads in a bucket" Then the father died by suicide, and mother was caught before she could The family was hounded over a medical debt. So who killed who www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...

“At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed” NPR is the most prominent US news organisation that has signed on rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...

Devastating reporting by @NPR: "Even Biden himself had to make calls negotiating what number of aid trucks would be let in from the border crossings...they appeared to be part of an Israeli strategy to bog the U.S. down in the details." www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

Environmentalist Bill McKibben: just flood the world with solar power panels. Look at Pakistan, he says, where cheap panels coincided with tiktoc videos showing people how to jigger them -- and the equivalent of half the national grid went online last year billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...

Then AI came for OnlyFans. Fascinating piece from @restofworld.org's Michael Beltran restofworld.org/2025/onlyfan...

Powerful work by @propublica.org “You think we’re arresting people now?” Homan said. “You wait.” projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Flooding kills hundreds in Pakistan and environmentalists and residents ask: where were the warnings? www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

We are living in a world where suffering is livestreamed and I cannot get over that.

@raji143.bsky.social Hello Dr. Raji, my name is Diaa Hadid, I'm an international correspondent for NPR and I'm based in Mumbai - also happen to be a Canberran! I am trying to reach you for a story on India-China relations. My email is [email protected] - would love to be in touch, thank you, Diaa

what kindness to emerge from such unfathomable pain. " If any child is able to study and do well in life, we would feel that Harpreet supported them." www.thequint.com/my-report/ai...

Truly a long shot but help me here: Hi India, all of you. Can anybody connect me to a doctor who does egg retrievals, also known as "pick ups" locally? Seeking doctors anywhere in India - thank you

Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees. By @rhersher.bsky.social

Of the many things banned by the #Taliban in #Afghanistan... chess? It's more than what you think... - by @diaahadid.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/06/21/n...

I loved Ziad Rahbani, so many of us did, for helping us find that funny, biting and sardonic voice that cut through the haze of Lebanese myths and lies about ourselves. Thank you Michael for this beautiful obit of an imperfect, shining man. www.npr.org/2025/08/02/n...

India's deadliest aviation disaster in years comes as the country aims to be a global flight hub. Experts say safety standards must improve first - from fearlessly reporting problems to regulators, to enfocing airport safety rules. With Shweta Desai for @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/06/13/g...

imagine trying to explain to your grandkids that we poisoned and cooked the planet because it was a bit easier and made us more $$$ than not poisoning or cooking it www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

For the first time, a Chinese fighter jet was engaged in an active conflict, and the impact may be far-reaching. With @emilyzfeng.bsky.social for @npr.org & so many patient analysts www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...

For the first time, a Chinese jet was used an active conflict. @diaahadid.bsky.social and I looked at the implications. “ What seems to be changing about modern China is it has the military capabilities to be a partner that can keep another state.. in a fight.” - www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...

Gutting listening on a militarized aid system where starving Palestinians are fired upon as they try seek food in Gaza. "birds bash into the windows, as if they're done, as if they're trying to get inside" @jameselder.bsky.social of @unicef.org www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

NPR internships are coming back, and I honestly couldn't be more thrilled. It is a PAID opportunity, from Oct '25 to Apr '26. This is a link to my team's (ATC) posting, but there are also non-newsroom postings (IT, web dev, graphics): job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...

you think you'll leave as the man you came: Umar Khalid on prison without trial in India: www.thequint.com/voices/blogs...

The Constitution came from the pen of a Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who also wrote, “…the world owes much to rebels who would dare to argue in the face of the pontiff and insist that he is not infallible”. www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead...

"So opening up a few new gas wells, oil wells or coalfields is no longer a trivial act, or something to celebrate. It is an act of calculated, premediated, mass murder...." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

What do Trump's travel bans look like from the countries they were imposed on? We bring you stories that try sketch that out from southern Africa, Haiti and Afghanistan. For @NPR: www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...