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Wajahat Malik, right, and a Pakistan Navy seaman navigate the Indus River. Malik organized a 40-day expedition down the 2,000-mile river to document "the peoples, the cultures, the biodiversity and just whatever comes our way," he says — including the impact of climate change and pollution.

Floating in a rubber dinghy, a filmmaker documents the Indus River's water woes

Pakistani filmmaker Wajahat Malik pulled together an expedition to raft down the 2,000-mile river. He hopes to reconnect people with the Indus, which is being threatened by overuse and climate change.

NPR travels to Afghanistan for the 1st time since the Taliban took over

In NPR's first visit to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over almost a year ago, Diaa Hadid discusses the changes she's observing in Kabul since she last visited there in pre-Taliban-ruled 2020.

Climate change and overuse is threatening Pakistan's main waterway

In a rare journey down the length of the Indus River, a filmmaker and environmental activists survey damage done to Pakistan's main water artery and meet the people who live on its ancient banks.

An empty lobby bench awaits theatergoers in The Old Globe's Viterbi Family Lobby, in an undated photo.

San Diego Arts Organizations Reflect On A Year Of Adapting, Uncertainty

San Diego Museum of Art, The Front Arte & Cultura, The Old Globe and The Casbah weigh in on running an arts organization during the pandemic, and the reality of reopening

One of two abortion drugs available without a prescription in some Mexican drugstores.

Mexican border town sees an increase in sales of abortion drugs to women from the U.S.

US customers started deluging Mexican border pharmacies after Texas passed an anti-abortion law last fall. A two-pill combination costs about $400 and does not require a doctor's prescription.

1 of the multiple blasts in Afghanistan hit worshippers in a mosque

Bomb attacks in Afghanistan have shattered a relative lull in violence that had held since the Taliban seized power eight months ago.

This year's Grammy nominees for best children's album include: Pierce Freelon, 1 Tribe Collective, 123 Andrés, Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band and Falu

Last year's children's song Grammy nominees were all white—but that's changed in 2022

Last year, three of the five nominees in the Grammys' children's music category withdrew their names from consideration, outraged the list was all-white. But the slate is very different this year.

Photographer Patrick Demarchelier is seen at a fashion show in New York in 2004.

Famed fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier dies at age 78

A close friend of Princess Diana, Patrick Demarchelier was one of the leading fashion photographers of his era.

Media outlets are reporting one Federal Security Service officer was killed in the shoot out in central Moscow.

At Least 1 Dead After Gunman Opens Fire Near Security Services Headquarters In Moscow

Multiple eyewitness said the gunfire came from near the headquarters of Russia's FSB spy agency, a short distance from the Kremlin.

Nastia Stefanovich, a volunteer at the distribution center in Lviv for goods donated for Ukrainians in need, points out the piles of clothes that have been arriving.

Donated clothes help in Ukraine. But there's one thing aid experts like better

While welcome, some donations don't address the needs of displaced and homeless Ukrainians who've lost nearly everything they own. Several aid groups are turning to a new tactic: cash aid.

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