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International students from around the world are arriving on American college campuses after a very rocky summer.

A study from the Environmental Working Group examined crop insurance payouts linked to extreme weather are on the rise across the U.S., costing taxpayers more than $118 million over two decades.

In February 2002, journalist Peter Heller accompanied seven extreme kayakers on an attempt to paddle down the Tsangpo river gorge in Tibet. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the experience and his book, Hell or High Water.

Today on The Outline: Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders selects a new state treasurer. Also, another heat advisory is issued for the region. Plus, Springdale receives more crosswalks.

Chris Lehman graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1997. He landed his first job less than a month later, producing arts stories for Red River Public Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana. Three years later he headed north to DeKalb, Illinois, where he worked as a reporter and announcer for NPR–affiliate WNIJ–FM. In 2006 he headed west to become the Salem Correspondent for the Northwest News Network.

Samantha Balaban is a producer at Weekend Edition.

NPR producer Art Silverman uncovers New Jersey's filthy situation: the Passaic River. U.S. manufacturing was jump-started along its banks. Now the river is so toxic, part of it is a superfund site, and much of the rest is, as one writer puts it, "a toilet."

NPR producer Art Silverman uncovers New Jersey's filthy situation: the Passaic River. U.S. manufacturing was jump-started along its banks. Now the river is so toxic, part of it is a superfund site, and much of the rest is, as one writer puts it, "a toilet."

Before the Yamuna enters Delhi, the river looks relatively clean. This is in stark contrast with what it looks like as soon as it enters the city. Most citizens don't care, but one man is taking up the cause.

The nine-member team, with key support staff, spent two nights surveying endangered bats inhabiting craggy hollows and caves high on the Mulberry River Watershed deep in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest. Ozarks at Large's Jacqueline Froelich joined the group for this report.