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The Sierra Nevada region where the park is located experienced snowfall at over 300% than usual this past winter. Flooding may happen into May and June, the park said.

In 2000, author Lou Ureneck left for a 10-day fishing trip to Alaska with his son in an attempt to repair their frayed relationship. The trip, captured in Backcast, helped Ureneck reflect on his parenting skills and on gaping holes in his own childhood.

What transports "The Water" into its own stratosphere is the accompaniment of Laura Marling, whose sweet, high delivery recalls Jacqui McShee of Pentangle. Marling's gorgeous harmony tags along like a sad-sack friend, while imbuing the song with a tangible sense of hope and beauty.

The Pentagon released a photo taken from a military plane chasing the Chinese balloon earlier this month. NPR has figured out where the selfie was snapped.

An empty coal train hit a rockslide along tracks in West Virginia on Wednesday morning, causing a fiery derailment that injured three crewmembers, CSX Transportation said in a statement.

Diaa Hadid has covered the rise of the Taliban and crackdowns in Pakistan. She's trekked through the Himalayan mountains in northern Pakistan to see the impacts of climate change, and introduced us to characters like the queen of Pakistan’s dirty theater.

The annual Fat Bear Week honors bears that have sufficiently bulked up in the months before entering hibernation.

In 2015, an intense atmospheric river in Sitka, Alaska, triggered a series of landslides, one of which took the lives of three locals. Sitka chose to respond — with science.

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their farms and homes from floods. The federal government is now ready to build it.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about squid-inspired fabric, the growing height of Mount Everest, and new research into the mystery of how lightning forms.