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President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce his picks for his energy and environment team at a Chicago news conference. Nobel laureate Steven Chu is expected to be Obama's energy secretary; Lisa Jackson is likely to be named the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with founder and CEO Hilal Ibrahim about her brand Henna & Hijabs. Nordstrom is now carrying her products.

As awareness grows about the environmental toll of single-use plastics, U.S. retailers and regulators alike are finding ways to decrease their use. And straws have become a prime target.

A Trump official says he expects peer-reviewed research will be subject to vetting during the transition period. If such a rule became permanent, it would be a radical departure from existing policy.

China has been creating artificial islands out of reefs. Environmentalists say the process is killing off coral and giant clams.

Food labels have become battlegrounds. Government regulators, companies and food movement activists have been fighting over what belongs on the label. (GMOs? Trans fats? Claims that bran prevents heart disease?) We asked four big thinkers for their dream food label.

Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.

Vice President Al Gore took to the trees today at the Audubon Naturalist Society's headquarters on a wildlife preserve in Maryland. The Democratic presidential candidate's subject was energy -- its costs and its effects on the environment. NPR's Steve Inskeep has this report.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports from Raleigh, North Carolina, on a series of new lawsuits which claim that large-scale hog farms are damaging the environment. Pork producers deny the charges.

Russell Lewis is a Deputy National Editor on NPR's National Desk.