With 100 days before the Paris Olympics, Team USA hopefuls meet the press U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee officials and Team USA contenders met in New York City this week to discuss how they’re preparing ahead of the Summer Games in Paris. Read more on NPR

Coral reefs can’t keep up with climate change. So scientists are speeding up evolution Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world’s coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point. Read more on NPR

After catch and release, here’s how to make sure reef fish survive People who fish in Florida and in federal waters are required to have special gear on board to help ensure groupers, snappers and other reef fish survive when they’re returned to the water. Read more on NPR

Biden wants to hike tariffs on imports of Chinese steel and aluminum The White House says China uses subsidies and government programs to undercut U.S. steel. President Biden wants to triple tariffs on the imports and take other new steps to curb imports. Read more on NPR

Why this vote at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant is historic for the South Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., are voting this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Two previous attempts to unionize the plant failed. Ballots will be counted on Friday. Read more on NPR

Venezuela orders the closure of its embassy in Ecuador Venezuela’s president ordered the closure of his country’s embassy in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito. Read more on NPR

The Rise and Fall of the Panama Canal The Panama Canal has been dubbed the greatest engineering feat in human history. It’s also (perhaps less favorably) been called the greatest liberty mankind has ever taken with Mother Nature. But due to climate change, the Canal is drying up and fewer than half of the ships…