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It’s estimated the leak in Los Angeles has pumped 4.6 billion cubic feet of potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

Oil prices have dropped more than 20 percent this year, and it's only January. Stocks around the world also fell today.

Fears about slowing global growth have sent the Dow Jones industrial average down by about 10 percent this month since the start of the year.

Kevin Bales' book, Blood and Earth, explains why slavery in the world's lawless zones is essential to operate mines that pose a grave threat to the environment.

The former secretary of state says a new report that some emails on her private server exceeded the "Top Secret" classification is "an effort to inject" controversy into her campaign.

The young Minnesota folk-pop singer performs a short concert in his home state.

The largest-ever prime number has been discovered at the University of Central Missouri. It breaks the previous record by almost 5 million digits.

Consumers are increasingly disillusioned with diet products and programs. But they're also confused by new terms like gluten-free and non-GMO, industry analysts and nutritionists say.

Nielsen, the ratings company, says it has a way to track what TV shows are trending on Twitter and Facebook, which will give producers and advertisers a better way to measure audiences. NPR explores what this adds to the growing effort to measure online audience.

Violent crimes increased in the first six months of 2015, FBI data show. It's a relatively small increase, but one that might affect the current bipartisan push to shrink America's prison population.