Soups are a consoling and flexible dish delighted in around the world, offering different flavors and fixings to suit any sense of taste.

When pollution gets bad enough in the rivers supplying Iowa's largest city with drinking water, it costs Des Moines around $16,000 a day to run a special system to filter out dangerous nitrates. It’s a fact of life in the agriculture-dependent state — and climate change is making the water quality problem even worse. The nitrates come from fertilizer and pesticides that make their way into the soil and then waterways like the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers.

Next and H&M are warning that if the Middle East conflict drags on, today’s freight headache could become tomorrow’s consumer squeeze.