Ruth Sherlock

How far-right parties are using extreme weather events to boost their cause

Ruth Sherlock

Political scientists explain why extreme weather events like this summer's European heatwaves can drive support to parties that traditionally deny human-made climate change.

Lebanon's poisoned land: The hidden environmental toll of the Israel-Hezbollah war

Ruth Sherlock

Israel's war against Hezbollah in South Lebanon has poisoned land and destroyed valuable ecosystems for generations to come. NPR takes soil samples of the land.

A migrant walks along a rocky shoreline near the border with Morocco after swimming towards Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on July 31, 2026.

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Spain's Pedro Sánchez was a hero of migrants. After Ceuta, he faces his biggest challenge

Miguel Macias, Ruth Sherlock

The pro-immigration leader is facing backlash at home and abroad after roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave.

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Greetings from Jerusalem, whose holy sites host some of the oldest colonies of nesting swifts

Ruth Sherlock

The scythe-winged birds have nested in the cracks of the Western Wall and other holy sites in Jerusalem for thousands of years.

'It's all literally rubble': Lebanese poet returns to see what has become of her home

Ruth Sherlock

A village destroyed. A home erased. One poet returns to remember what was lost.

Swifts have been nesting in the Western Wall for centuries. Experts count at least 88 nests in the nooks and crannies of this holy site. The birds swoop and dive above the worshipers, catching insects to feed their young or encouraging their nestlings to take flight.

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An Israeli paraglider tries to save migrating swifts that nest in the Western Wall

Ruth Sherlock

Swifts have nested in Jerusalem's Western Wall since biblical times. Now one Israeli paraglider is trying to save them.

U.S. and Iran set to resume peace talks

Ruth Sherlock, Michel Martin

The U.S. and Iran will resume peace talks Tuesday, as Lebanon faces pressure to rein in Hezbollah as a precondition for an Israeli withdrawal.