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Noah speaks with David Brower, who was the Sierra Club's first executive director. Brower talks about why he quit the board of the Sierra Club, an organization he has been affiliated with since 1933. He has been quoted as saying "The Earth is burning but I hear nothing from the Sierra Club board except the music of violins. It's time for them to shape up."

Weekend Edition popular culture commentator Steven Stark addresses the impact of the internet and cable TV on the presidential campaigns.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that the Clinton administration is consulting with other Latin American nations with regard to possible punitive steps to be taken against Peru. The US sharply criticized Peru's government for not postponing Sunday's presidential runoff to deal with irregularities. A state department spokesman refused to say what steps, if any, the US is prepared to take against President Alberto Fujimori. Peru receives the most US aid in Latin America after Colombia, and is a close partner with Washington in fighting drug trafficking.

When your penmates have eaten all your snacks, what's a guy to do? Workers at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium found 13-year-old Jontu, an Indian one-horned rhino, chowing down just behind his barn.

Roach researched animal misbehaviors for her new book, Fuzz. Though animals are all but charged with crimes when they run afoul of human values, she learns, they often have the last laugh.

California voters will decide the political future of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Abortion providers in states within driving distance of Texas say they're seeing an uptick in patients.

Relief payments moved 11.7 million people from poverty in 2020, according to new Census Bureau data.

Rivian has begun commercial production of its R1T electric pickup trucks at its production plant in Normal.

All five candidates are people of color and four of them are women.