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The family of Kenneth Miguel Armijo, senior research scientist and engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, has been growing chiles in New Mexico, USA, for nearly a century. "We've been doing it even since the state was part of the Mexican territory," he says. "Chili is part of our blood."

So, taking advantage of his position as a clean energy researcher and his cultural history, Armijo found a much more sustainable way to roast the chiles: using solar energy.

Constantly encountering news about climate change can be not only discouraging, but also confusing. Although, in essence, the point of origin of the climate crisis is the rise in global temperature, it involves several chain reactions, as well as technical, economic and social concepts that not everyone is familiar with.

So how do you get people to understand the dimensions of climate change without being overwhelmed? A French organization has found a way: a card game, called Climate Fresk, in which people can learn about the main ideas of climate change and do so collaboratively in just three hours.