Former Vice President Al Gore tells NPR the partisan divide over climate change is fading. Politicians, he says, are told by their pollsters to focus on other issues, but "that's changing."
Steve Inskeep talks to reporter James Fredrick in Mexico City about a number of alleged narco traffickers who were killed in a shootout with Mexican soldiers.
More than a million pilgrims have visited Moscow's main cathedral to see the remains of Saint Nicholas, a bishop from Asia Minor who's said to be the inspiration behind the story of Santa Claus.
The world is running out of sand. So much so that some countries have banned exports of sand, and there is a thriving black market for it. David Greene talks to freelance journalist Vince Beiser.
