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Listener Jenn Lawrence asked us to examine one of the city’s highest-profile green initiatives. Does ‘The City on The Prairie’ still want prairies on our roofs? How much good have they done, anyway?

Worldview explores the implications of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's dismissal of several top military generals. Then, following USAID money to the wallets of human rights abusers. And, the space race is far from over as developing nations aim skyward.

We've all heard about how the drought in the Midwest has impacted the lives of farmers and their crops. To get a sense of the drought and its affect on the grass-fed beef industry, Brian Babylon visited Quarter Circle Seven Ranch in Marengo, Ill.

A recently published study found that in some neighborhoods in Cook County, where you live can take up to as many as ten years off your life.

In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet's past.Cheers and applause echoed through the NASA Jet Propulsion Laborator

The myth: It's the responsibility of local governments to deal with stormwater when it rains. The facts: The first line of defense is the property owner. The cumulative efforts of whole communities has significant impact on the quantity and quality of stormwater that ends up in our lakes and rivers.

A year after the Mississippi River swelled to near-historic proportions and flooded farms and homes from Illinois to Louisiana, the level along the waterway's southern half is so low that cargo barges have run aground and their operators have been forced to lighten their loads.