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Wild boars are increasingly becoming a danger and nuisance in European cities. Journalist Bernhard Warner tells NPR's Michel Martin why that is, and what cities are doing to control them.

The Brattleboro Retreat has reclaimed a historic cemetery that was a burial place for patients who died while being treated at the psychiatric hospital.

Since last month, the deadly blaze has swept through about 280,000 acres, priming the land for massive and deadly mudslides. Still, Friday's announcement marks a hard-fought win for firefighters.

Give Back New Hampshire is a bi-weekly segment that spotlights New Hampshire nonprofit organizations. It airs every other Monday during Morning Edition.

These descendants of wild boars were brought over from Europe decades ago. They're highly invasive and hugely destructive — threatening native bears and deer in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The stark beauty of New Hampshire's NovemberRobert Frost's poem My November Guest begins:My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of…

NPR's Michael Skoler visits Kikwit, Zaire almost a year after the ebola (ee-BOH-lah) epidemic broke out there. The virus appeared in May last year and is usually fatal. The epidemic was stopped but left 244 people dead. Scientists from the U-S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are testing samples of tens of thousands of insects and animals taken from the forest where the virus originated but still have not found the source. Hospital workers in Kikwit are still reluctant to treat patients, and while many people have overcome their fear of the disease, there remain superstitions and misinformation among the population.

New Orleans' broad, shady live oak trees lend the city much charm. Many urban foresters had feared the flooded trees might die after spending weeks with roots submerged in a salty, polluted brew. Now the city has dried out and tree experts are going in to assess the damage.

Viking Lumber buys most of its trees from the federal government's timber sales in the Tongass National Forest. But those sales could become a thing of the past.

Despite the forest fire in North Woodstock, tourism officials are urging visitors that the White Mountains are open for business.The Lost River Gorge is…