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Ecuador's chocolate is famous, and a sweet spot in an otherwise souring economy. The government is paying a small army of pruners to trim back 120,000 acres of Amazonian cacao farms to boost yields.

A trio of backpackers set off in June to cross the Alaskan wilderness on an "unsupported" hike, carrying only the supplies they needed and vowing not to hunt or forage along the way. Of the three, only Roman Dial completed the 600-mile trek -- the adventurer talks with Alex Chadwick about his accomplishment.

And the city of Dnipro, Ukraine, has become a place where the wounded arrive from the front lines and displaced people come as they flee cities subjected to Russian attacks.

Amid growing fears of a potential genocide, the U.N. has approved military intervention in the former French colony.

Before the war, Ukrainian Rehina Solodovnik tutored Russian students online. The teaching has stopped, but she's still getting text messages. "I am so sorry for our government," one student said.

Politics mixed with picnics and parades Monday as the candidates fanned out for an end of summer blitz of campaigning. Many discussed jobs — an issue that tops just about every voter's list.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Caroline Nienhuis, a Swiss biologist with the Zurich Beaver Advisory Center, about a hotline established to help residents deal with a growing local beaver population.

Photographer Ella Morton documented the Arctic and Subarctic around the world, implementing analog techniques to warp the photos and illustrate climate change's effects in these areas.

The U.S. Supreme Court placed new restrictions on the scope of the jurisdiction the Clean Water Act has over wetlands, ruling in favor of Idaho landowners who had challenged the law.

Ari Shapiro names The New Pornographers as a musical act he's thankful for in 2019. That gratitude is passed forward to nêhiyawak, then Leikeli47 and finally to Chick Corea.