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Noel King speaks with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield about how the U.S. plans to address pressing humanitarian crises like those unfolding in Ethiopia and Syria.

The thousand-year-old farming village of Keyenberg lies in the path of an expanding open-pit mine. Fighting to save the town is about more than Keyenberg. It's also about climate change.

After a brutal heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Vivek Shandas of Portland State University about the impact climate change is having on cities.

A drift-prone herbicide called dicamba continues to plague the Midwest, despite promises to end the problem from the chemical's backers. A top seed industry executive now has joined dicamba's critics.

2: Author/Attorney STEPHEN GODDARD. His new book is "Getting There: The Epic Stuggle between Road and Rail in the American Century" (Basic Books). GODDARD's interest in trains began as a boy in the 1940s. At that time the regulated railroads were fighting back against the subsidized highways by creating luxurious trains with fancy dining cars that boasted elegant crystal on the tables. "Getting There" documents how the highway lobby succceeded in convincing government to "feed the roads and starve the rails."In this context, Goddard addresses the resulting social and environmental ills and the future of American transportation.

2: FRESH AIR producer AMY SALIT talks with PETER GARRETT, lead singer of the Australian rock band MIDNIGHT OIL...a band known for its environmental and political activisim. They have a new album, EARTH AND SUN AND MOON (Col

2: Architect PETER CALTHORPE, whose new book "The Next American Metropolis" (Princeton Architectural Press) advocates designing suburban communities with environmental, social and economic limits in mind, and without a reliance on the automobile. His developments would be connected by light rail systems, not multi-lane freeways. Calthorpe proposes neighborhoods which encourage walking as a way to emphasize community building.

Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion groups agree on something? Conservatives and environmentalists pursuing a common cause? NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that surprising coalitions are popping up in the new political landscape.

Not so long ago, people were fleeing from the economically epressed country of Albania. Tom Whitehouse reports that better times may be head. Currently the Albanian government is working to stimulate the country's conomy by reviving the tourist industry along the nation's beautiful coastal egions. But the planned development is causing concerns among environmentalists hat are worried the country's last unspoiled region will be damaged.

Seventeen days into responding to a condominium collapse in Surfside, Fla., officials cite progress in identifying victims and those still unaccounted for.