The Securities and Exchange Commission is requiring publicly-traded companies to disclose information about the risks they face from climate change. Industry is expected to sue to stop the rules.
A satellite with a climate solutions mission blasted off on a SpaceX rocket Monday. It's on a mission to detect planet-heating methane pollution from the oil and gas sector.
Ithaca, N.Y., wants to eliminate greenhouse gasses by 2030 — 20 years faster than the rest of the country. But even in this liberal city meeting climate targets is harder than expected.
Fred Tutman has protected the Patuxent River in Maryland for decades. As a Black man in a field dominated by white conservationists, it's been his mission to welcome in more people of color.
The state's largest wildfire on record is burning across large swaths of the Texas Panhandle. The fire has prompted evacuations and has already devastated scores of ranches, farms and small towns.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with glaciologist Ted Scambos about the conclusion of a multi-year study of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, the "plug" holding back a formidable amount of ice.