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As the world continues to warm due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the public and private sectors are ramping up programs to pay farmers for trapping carbon dioxide in their soil.

Three years into #MeToo, three women have raised allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Vox senior reporter Anna North on how some men's behavior hasn't changed.

The Derek Chauvin trial is not technically about race. Yet attorneys have spent most of their time questioning potential jurors about their views on it. One Black juror's questioning illuminates why.

Opening statements begin Monday in the trial of an ex-policeman who was videoed with his knee on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. It sparked a reckoning over race and justice in America.

The Tuskegee syphilis study is used to explain why Black Americans are hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine. But many say Tuskegee is used as an excuse not to address current racism in health care.

The process of counting ballots has stressed out a lot of people this week. NPR's movie critic says he's been distracting himself from the election with cinematic counting.

Irish writer Colm Toibin's novella recounts familiar stories of the New Testament, as seen through the eyes of Jesus' mother. But this isn't the iconic blushing virgin you're used to seeing. Toibin's Mary is modeled after the fierce heroines of Greek tragedies — and she is filled with anger.

Molly Haskell has taken a new look at all the guilty pleasures and raging complexities that inhabit Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind in her book Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited. Haskell explains how the characters are looked at differently today.

Literary critics have called him the British Philip Roth, but Howard Jacobson prefers to think of himself as a "Jewish Jane Austen." His books are renowned for their biting social commentary — and his Booker prize-winning novel, The Finkler Question, is no exception.

The new female Thor has picked up her hammer, but the mainstream comics industry is still experiencing some growing pains as it figures out where women fit in as characters, creators and fans.

Before World War II, numerous Jewish emigrants left Lithuania for South Africa. In his debut novel, Kenneth Bonert tells the story of a family among their number. As reviewer Ellah Allfrey writes, despite a few rookie mistakes, that story is told with great inventiveness and care.

The two allies are "collaborating very closely" on a response to Russian-backed cyberattacks, Ambassador to the U.S. Karen Pierce says. And she says the U.K. is still powerful after Brexit.

Central California is home to a large population of Sikh Punjabi farmers who say this year's harvest festival, Vaisakhi, holds complicated feelings amid months-long farmer protests in India.

The U.S. plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically in the next decade. Scientists say it's crucial that the U.S. succeed. Still, many of the positive effects won't arrive for decades.

Relatives of George Floyd and Daunte Wright called for justice in the two separate cases of Black men killed in police encounters. NPR's Noel King talks to Benjamin Crump, the families' attorney.

TC Energy suspended construction in January when President Biden revoked a key permit. The controversial project was a major flashpoint in the debate over fossil fuels' role in climate change.

Shelby Houlihan says her positive test for the steroid nandrolone followed a visit to a food truck for a pork burrito, and is pointing to studies that show nandrolone occurs naturally in some pigs.

Major automakers and the Biden administration are announcing a goal of all new car sales being 40% to 50% electric vehicles by 2030. The White House also unveiled its plan for new vehicle standards.

The 33-year-old health commissioner in Baltimore says that heading the city's health department is the fastest paced job she's had. Dr. Wen is an emergency physician by training.

As vaccines for COVID-19 await federal approval, host David Greene speaks with vaccine and immunization scientist Angela Shen on vaccine distribution plans.

Lindsey Jordan's debut, which earned her the title "the future of indie rock," documented the bliss of first loves. Her sophomore album finds her just as devoted to honesty, even when the truth hurts.

The coronavirus pandemic has gutted many tech startups. Tens of thousands of workers are now unemployed, and companies are shutting down.

China is liberalizing birth restrictions because it wants families to have more children. But unconventional families still find themselves constrained by social norms.

When the pandemic hit last year, restaurants closed and grocery stores struggled to keep their shelves stocked. A shift also occurred in the national food safety system.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk about the threat of a Russian invasion.