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An initiative to revive the Indus River hopes to save this major waterway from overuse and pollution. Some 240 million people are riding on the outcome. But the financing of it is controversial.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Delta's Ekrem Dimbiloglu about how airlines curate the movies and TV shows passengers watch in the air.

The worst-hit areas of Myanmar include Yangon and the Irrawaddy delta region. Marc Rapoport of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Burma talks to Michele Norris about the devastation and the challenge of getting outside aid groups access into Burma.

Sajid Javid tested positive two days before the United Kingdom is set to reopen following months of lockdowns. Cases, driven by the delta variant, are up sharply in the U.K.

Since 1970, the national colorectal cancer death rate has been cut in half. But progress has lagged in the Lower Mississippi Delta, Appalachia and counties in eastern Virginia and North Carolina.

David Martin Davies is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering Texas, the border and Mexico.

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David D. Brown is executive producer and host of the award-winning cultural journalism program Texas Music Matters at NPR affiliate KUT-FM in Austin. He is former anchor of the award-winning public radio business program Marketplace, and a veteran public radio journalist. He has reported national and international affairs for Monitor Radio from bases in Atlanta, Boston, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

Oceanographers fear that this year the Gulf of Mexico could see its largest dead zone ever recorded. Researchers attribute the massive annual die off of…

David Gilkey and NPR's Afghan interpreter and fellow journalist Zabihullah Tamanna were killed June 5, 2016, near Marjah, in southern Afghanistan.