The Kojo Nnamdi Show

They've lived in complete isolation from the modern world for centuries. But now, for the second time six weeks, a group of previously-unknown indigenous Indians emerged from the forest along the Peru-Brazil border. As their ancestral...

Some people see the cooling towers of a nuclear power plant and think "Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Never Again." Others see the towers as an opportunity to eliminate dependence on foreign oil and provide a 'green' alternative to coal...

It's being called one of Earth's last untapped energy frontiers: the seabed beneath the North Pole ice caps. This week, a team of Russian researchers will dive beneath the ice, hoping to claim the land underneath. And they're being closely...

Do the leaves on your trees look like swiss cheese? We'll find out about the gypsy moth attack Maryland's currently suffering through -- the worst in more than a decade. And we'll find out why carpenter bees love making their homes in...

Trash follows a winding path after you toss it down the compactor or drop on the street (gasp!). Ideally it ends up in a recycling center of landfill. Unfortunately, it often ends up in our waterways and on our highways. Kojo explores the...

Fiction fans may know Barbara Kingsolver for best-sellers like "Animal Dreams" and "The Poisonwood Bible". But she's also a trained biologist, dedicated to understanding the human relationship with our environment. She joins Kojo to...

It's the stuff of old mariners' nightmares: Earlier this year, fishermen off Antarctica caught a "colossal squid"- weighing a thousand pounds and measuring forty feet. And it was just one of a growing number of intriguing oceanic...