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Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, former classmates of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's at the University of Massachusetts, are accused of throwing out a laptop and other items that could link Tsarnaev to the bombings.

In Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, author Tristram Stuart chronicles how vast quantities of food are blithely tossed out daily in much of the developed world. He notes that South Korea recycles 97 percent of its food waste; the U.S., just 3 percent.

As President Vladimir Putin approaches his 20th year in power, anger over bread-and-butter issues is sparking demonstrations across the country.

The storm is blamed for 37 deaths in three states. More than 10,000 people in North Carolina are living in shelters, and thousands of people have been rescued from their homes.

The market for single-serving coffee pods is dominated by Keurig's K-Cups. But they aren't recyclable, and critics say that's making a monster of an environmental mess. Meet the K-Cup Godzilla.

A group of students from Brooklyn see every day how climate change disproportionately affects their community. They made a podcast that asked: Why?

Leave the leaves? Is it really as simple as that? NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jessica Damiano - who writes the Weekly Dirt Newsletter, about the wisdom of this movement.

Pro-democracy street art inspired by sources ranging from Les Miserables to John Lennon fill an open-air museum of sorts that has cropped up in Hong Kong.

Companies that promise to recycle electronic devices – computers, printers and such – usually smash them into little bits to reclaim metal and other high-value materials, but a graduate student at the University of Virginia argues we’re losing lots of value in doing that. Instead, he’s removing components and turning them into kits for small wind turbines.

A simmering debate that got under way last week in the Senate over new energy legislation is bound to hit a full boil this week. The bill's most contentious issues remain unresolved. They include gas-mileage standards, renewable fuels and price gouging.