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In 1973, Soylent Green imagined a New York City of 2022 — polluted, overcrowded, and facing environmental catastrophe. Other movies offered their own take on what was in store.

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Friday, Nov. 21, 2025 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2. Experience the story of the Oscar-winning Indigenous artist from her rise to prominence in New York's Greenwich Village folk music scene through her six-decade groundbreaking career as a singer-songwriter, social activist, educator and artist.

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

Megan Burke is an Emmy Award-winning news editor overseeing the environment, health, and racial justice and social equity reporting beats. Prior to her current role as editor, Megan spent more than a decade as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition, a daily radio news magazine and podcast. Other news production credits include KPBS Evening Edition, KPBS Roundtable, and San Diego’s DNA, a two-part documentary highlighting the region’s oldest traditions and culture using personal artifacts and oral histories of San Diegans.

The plan would allow companies to buy carbon credits from developing nations that cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Critics say carbon markets often fail to deliver climate benefits.

Raised in lily-white Cape Cod, Mass. while one of the few persons of color around, Esperanza found their voice the old-fashioned way: by searching for it.

The University of California has dedicated $7 million to provide its campuses with improved response to conflicts stemming from the Israel-Hamas war.

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, April 6 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Jorge visits a charitable program called “Yes We Can,” a school made to serve the children of refugees who are in camps in the region. Then we meet chef Manny, the man behind authentic Italian pizza being made in Rosarito.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is trying something new to introduce kids to the materials that make art.

Painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer was born in war-ravaged Germany in 1945. Wim Wenders' new film conveys the beauty, bleakness and moral weight of Kiefer's art.