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U.S. envoy John Kerry points to some progress at U.N. climate summit

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry about his expectations on what would make the U.N. climate conference a success ahead of the final day of COP26.

Teafua Tanu is an islet of Tokelau used by residents of Fakaofo atoll as a Catholic cemetery. Over the past two decades, the territory of Tokelau has proved extremely vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels owing, partly, to its being a small land mass surrounded by ocean, and its location in a region prone to natural disasters.

Their lands are oceans apart but are linked by rising, warming seas of climate change

Photographer Vlad Sokhin's latest work, Warm Waters, is an exploration of climate change traveling across 18 countries and off-the-map territories seen by seldom few.

WATCH: Harvard-NPR panel on the fight to tame COVID

Watch an expert panel discuss the latest developments and challenges in the COVID-19 pandemic livestreamed at noon ET on Friday.

U.S. gymnast Sunisa Lee took home a bronze medal for her performance on the uneven bars at the Tokyo Olympics, as well as a gold medal in the women's all-around.

Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee says she was pepper-sprayed in a racist attack in LA

The all-around champion, who is Hmong American, says she was with a group of friends of Asian descent in Los Angeles when people in a passing car yelled at them to "go back to where they came from."

Emily Oster: Why wasn't the US tracking the spread of COVID-19 in schools?

In summer 2020, parents faced so many unknowns when it came to sending kids to school. Economist Emily Oster describes how she started collecting data nationwide to help parents decide for themselves.

Stella Moris, fiancée of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, arrives at the High Court of England and Wales, in London, last month.

Julian Assange wins permission to marry his partner in a London prison

The WikiLeaks founder and attorney Stella Moris began a relationship after Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012. They have two sons together.

Climate activists demonstrate at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday. Negotiators from almost 200 nations were making a fresh push to reach agreement on a series of key issues.

In a first, U.N. climate agreement could include the words 'coal' and 'fossil fuels'

The U.N. secretary-general warns the main goal of limiting global warming is "on life support." But Glasgow negotiators are making modest progress in their final hours.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski is running for reelection facing a GOP opponent endorsed by former President Trump.

Murkowski voted to convict Trump. Now she'll run against a candidate he backs

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial last January.

The Goodbye Party, 'Magnolia'

'Magnolia' lays bare the winsome sadness of Cantor's sweet voice

'Our people are watching': Barbados PM's warning about climate change among memorable COP26 speeches

Activists and world leaders have taken the opportunity over the past two weeks to deliver powerful speeches about the future of the planet.

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