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Climate-driven flooding destroyed Tony Calhoun’s home in 2022. But as the water receded, his despair only grew. His fiancee, Edith Lisk (left), hopes to bring attention to the mental health toll of extreme weather. Edith Lisk hide caption
Hurricane Francine hit Louisiana last week, dumping rain across the South. Forecasters are expecting a lot of hurricanes and tropical storms in the next few weeks. Jack Brook/AP hide caption
Climate change is one reason for hotter oceans. But there are others
Food being prepared and presented during vegan chef Chloe Coscarelli hosted H&M Home Breakfast in 2017 in New York. Donald Bowers/Getty Images hide caption
A box of food scraps that will be composted sits at a waste transfer station in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Not all Americans eat beef equally. Research finds the nation's biggest beef eaters are disproportionately men. Jackie Lay/NPR hide caption
Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for some American men
Garbage is unloaded into the Pine Tree Acres Landfill in Lenox Township, Mich., on July 28, 2022. State bans on commercial food waste have been largely ineffective, researchers found. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption
Windmills towers over a soy bean field on August 10, 2024 near Charles City, Iowa. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Kayla Abe (pictured here) and her partner, chef David Murphy, co-founded Shuggie's Trash Pie in 2022, in part to address the global problem of food waste. According to the food waste reduction nonprofit ReFED, 38% of the U.S. food supply goes uneaten. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption
One restaurant has a way to fight food waste: Making food out of 'trash'
Cousins Viva Johnson (left) and Bernadette Pete harvest celery with instructor Leonardo Sugteng’aq Wassilie at Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, just outside Fairbanks, Alaska. Johnson and Pete can’t always get fresh produce in their village of Alakanuk, near the Bering Sea. In August, they participated in an Indigenous-led farmer training program at the farm.
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The blue flames of a natural gas stove emit harmful pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide. Consumer and environmental watchdog groups want health warning labels on new gas stoves to let buyers know of the risks. Steven Senne/AP hide caption
Shuggie's co-owners David Murphy and Kayla Abe aim to reduce food waste by using upcycled ingredients. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption
A view of Major League Vegan on October 15, 2023 in New York City. Rob Kim/Getty Images hide caption
Gobert, of Driftwood Farm, harvests white bush scallop squash. Gobert practices farming with the climate in mind. He rotates crops, and he grows rice by putting water directly on the roots rather than flooding fields, which generates methane — a potent planet-warming gas. Leslie Gamboni hide caption
ChoViva, a cocoa-free chocolate alternative, is tested and processed by an employee at the testing lab of Planet A Foods. Sandra Singh for NPR hide caption
To fight climate change, 2 siblings in Germany make chocolate without cocoa beans
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a presidential debate with Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
The Imperial Dam in Winterhaven, Calif., diverts Colorado River water toward California's Imperial Valley, a stretch of desert along the Mexican border. Farmers in the region use more Colorado River water each year than the states of New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming combined. Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
Rescue workers clear mud and debris brought down by a flood in Lang Nu hamlet in Vietnam's Lao Cai province on Tuesday. Pham Hong Ninh/VNA via AP hide caption
An Uber Eats delivery courier rides an electric bicycle through the Park Slope neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Amir Hamja/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Elon Musk's xAI took over this factory in Memphis, Tenn., earlier this year. This is where it's building a supercomputer to fuel artificial intelligence. Houston Cofield/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A hotter climate threatens chocolate. This German company invented a substitute
Farmer Will Tipton holds a radish, one of the cover crops he's using. Some scientists worry that the climate benefits of cover crops and other regenerative agriculture practices are oversold. Julia Simon/NPR hide caption
Left: Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a speech as she accepts the party's nomination to be its presidential candidate at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 22, 2024. Right: U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024 in St Cloud, Minnesota. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR; Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption