Climate

The Colorado River flows by the historic Navajo Bridge on June 23, 2021 in Marble Canyon, Ariz.

The Supreme Court wrestles with questions over the Navajo Nation's water rights

10:01pm March 20, 2023

by Becky Sullivan

Almost a third of the reservation's 170,000 residents lack access to clean, reliable drinking water. The tribe wants to be able to represent itself in litigation over the Colorado River.

The message from a U.N. climate report is dire: Humans must cut pollution quickly

4:29pm March 20, 2023

by Rebecca Hersher

Scientists working for the United Nations released their final report on the state of the Earth's climate, current greenhouse gas emissions and the options humans have for curbing those emissions.

Residents in southern Malawi repair a home destroyed by heavy rain from Cyclone Freddy. Climate change is causing cyclones and hurricanes to get more intense and dangerous.

Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report

1:45pm March 20, 2023

by Rebecca Hersher

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions rapidly and immediately will save lives, livelihoods and ecosystems around the world, scientists say. And there are lots of ways to go about it.

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The United Nations is expected to issue a major new climate change report

5:10am March 20, 2023

A report from the United Nations is expected to lay out options to help world leaders curb emissions, and protect people from the effects of climate change.

Health & Safety

The relationship between climate change and rising disease

5:50pm March 19, 2023

NPR's Pien Huang talks to Dr. Benjamin Beard, deputy director of the CDC's division of vector borne diseases, about how climate change could be contributing to the spread of diseases.

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Health & Safety

Cyclone Freddy shattered records. People lost everything. How does the healing begin?

5:54pm March 17, 2023

by Kate Bartlett

The countries hit by this unprecedented storm now must help survivors who may have lost nearly everything. We talk to an aid worker on the ground in Mozambique for insights.

Markey calls Biden's decision to back the Willow Project 'an environmental injustice'

6:14pm March 16, 2023

The Biden administration approved a major oil extraction project in Alaska, a decision that has divided Democrats. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Sen. Ed Markey, who opposes the project.

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Activists spread misleading information to fight solar

6:14pm March 16, 2023

by Michael Copley

Citizens for Responsible Solar is part of a growing backlash against renewable energy in rural communities across the United States.

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People remove Sargassum in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in April, 2022. Researchers expect this year will bring another massive bloom, choking local ecosystems and tourism economies.

Meet the sargassum belt, a 5,000-mile-long snake of seaweed circling Florida

9:47am March 15, 2023

by Emily Olson

Since 2011, a fleet of seaweed patches double the size of the contiguous U.S. has cycled from West Africa to Florida, threatening beaches from Martinique to Miami. This year, it could grow bigger.

National

Florida tries to prepare for increasingly intense hurricanes

4:12pm March 14, 2023

by Amy Green

Last year, Hurricane Ian decimating parts of the state. Now, communities are trying to figure out how to prepare for increasingly intense storms due to human-caused climate change.