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The Trump era trade war impact on the U.S. agricultural economy, what a world population of 8 billion means for food production and distribution, how cattle are being used to create fire breaks to assist in wildfire fighting, and why lettuce growers in the southwest are harvesting lettuce a little early this year.

A national study finds groundwater “baseflow” droughts are lasting longer in the Southwest, highlighting how climate and underground water shape river flows.

Montezuma County is moving ahead with efforts to clean up the county through clean-up days and a possible ordinance about trash.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky says his county will sue to block state lawmakers' plans because of how it relies heavily on local governments and their strained budgets to help California out of its financial troubles. He discusses California's tentative budget deal.

The archipelago, which was the site of dozens of U.S. nuclear tests in the 1940s and '50s, is suing India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom in the International Court of Justice.

In their new book, Hidden Harmonies, husband and wife mathematics team Robert and Ellen Kaplan pay tribute to that familiar formula you learned in high school math class.

Hear music by Human Life, Shiba San, Claude Von Stroke and more on this week's two-hour EDM mix from KCRW's Jason Bentley.

The video series by Dylan Marron lays bare the film industry's lack of diversity: By cutting all but the dialogue from nonwhite characters, the actor points out how little Hollywood gives them to say.

The Republicans rolled out their tax plan on Thursday, but not all of them are on board. NPR's David Greene speaks with Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York about why he isn't satisfied.

Elizabeth Acevedo's new novel in verse follows two sisters who don't know they're sisters and who discover each other and have to build a relationship when their father dies in a plane crash.