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Law enforcement is working to detect and prevent radical Islam in the U.S. NPR's Rachel Martin presents different perspectives on what prevention looks like.

In the week since the devastating earthquake in India, many have asked a familiar question: Why doesn't the government enforce earthquake building codes? Martha Ann Overland looks at corruption in the Indian construction industry.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that President Bush has delayed a ban on road-building and most logging in a third of the country's national forests. The ban was put in place in the final days of the Clinton administration.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on efforts to improve the safety of development in fire prone areas. Regulations against building in high fire risk areas are most effective, but still pretty rare. In some communities, people and their neighbors, insurers and local officials have taken the task of "fire-proofing" into their own hands.

Despite arguments over effectiveness and cost, New Jersey has long practiced what is called “artificial beach nourishment”—importing and pumping tons of…

A new opera with libretto by Ben Katchor. Katchor is the creator of the comic strip, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. Like the strip, the opera springs from Katchor's fascination with the urban landscape - specifically, two different buildings and their very different inhabitants. The work is being performed by musicians from the New York new music collective called Bang on a Can, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts, this weekend. Charlene Scott, of member station WFCR in Amherst, has the story.

Farmers die by suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Midwestern states are training people who regularly interact with farmers to be a new frontline of defense against farm stress.

EarthTalk®E - The Environmental MagazineDear EarthTalk: What is the Living Building Challenge and how does it differ from the LEED certification…

Skyscraper is a summer confection where Dwayne Johnson plays a man who wants to get into a burning building to save his family from a bunch of bad guys and a fire. Happy dog days of summer.

Robert Siegel talks with Ambassador James Dobbins, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the Rand Corporation, about the challenges of rebuilding Iraq after Tuesday's bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.