NPR1 day agoPhotos: See the path of destruction from Hurricane BerylNPR - Mhari ShawHurricane Beryl has started making landfall in Jamaica as a category 4 storm. Yesterday it devastated several Caribbean islands, including Grenada. The Prime Minister, Dickson Mitchell, said that there was no power, the roads were impassible and there was a possibility of the death toll rising, …
NPRMeet the North Koreans who haven't been able to return home in over 70 yearsNPR - Hannah YoonSituated on the eastern shore of South Korea rests an unassuming village home to resettled North Korean refugees who fled southward during the Korean War, often referred to as the Forgotten War in the U.S. Abai Village, inhabited by approximately a dozen displaced individuals from the north, …
NPRDespite women-only cars, Mexico City's metro still has a gender violence crisisNPR - Sara Messinger , Ana María IslasMexico has a serious problem of gender violence. There is an average of 10 femicides, homicides committed on females and feminine people, a day and more than 40% of Mexican women have suffered a situation of violence before the age of 15, either psychologically, sexually or physically, according to …
NPRHow the pandemic led this documentary photographer to make her work more collaborativeNPR - Grace Widyatmadja , Ashima YadavaAshima Yadava's project Front Yard captures a moment in time where we all were seeking connection. In 2020, the pandemic gave Yadava the time to reflect, and so she looked to photography. She turned to her community, reaching out to her entire network, wanting to make portraits of them from their …
NPRThe Okalolies of Old Year's Night: Celebrating tradition on the world's most remote inhabited islandNPR - Nick Schönfeld, Julia GuntherDec. 31, 2023, shortly before 2 p.m. Gray, low-hanging clouds obscure the tops of green cliffs that tower over Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, a village of 238 people and the sole settlement on the island of Tristan da Cunha. Tristan lies in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean, a famously wild and …
NPRPhotos: See the Northern lights from rare solar stormNPRThe largest geomagnetic storm in nearly two decades is hitting Earth's atmosphere. It's producing a beautiful glow in the sky all over the world. A sunspot has sent a stream of charged particles towards Earth. As those particles hit the Earth's atmosphere they will be heated and start glowing …
