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Yellowstone's North Entrance Road was washed out by flooding.

National

Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen Wednesday after historic floods

12:04pm June 19, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

The park has been closed since floods washed away roads, damaged buildings and knocked out water and power to parts of the park and communities nearby. The park's northern loop will remain closed.

World News

Countries in the Horn of Africa are experiencing the worst drought in 40 years

8:50am June 19, 2022

by Eyder Peralta

Hunger and drought are overwhelming the Horn of Africa again, threatening a humanitarian catastrophe and a warning from aid agencies of an "explosion of child deaths."

The impact of the Sriracha shortage is starting to be felt.

National

There's a nationwide Sriracha shortage, and climate change may be to blame

11:11am June 17, 2022

by Ashish Valentine

The company that makes Sriracha told customers it will have to stop making the sauce for the next few months due to "severe weather conditions affecting the quality of chili peppers."

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Texas has been facing unusually early hot weather — and there's more heat ahead

4:43pm June 16, 2022

by Jill Ament

As a heatwave grips the middle third of the country, Texas residents have been dealing with triple-digit heat for nearly two weeks. That's unusual for June and forecasters say there's more to come.

A female bear and two 1-year-old cubs walk over snow-covered freshwater glacier ice in Southeast Greenland.

In a place with little sea ice, polar bears have found another way to hunt

2:03pm June 16, 2022

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

An isolated population of polar bears in southeast Greenland has learned to hunt on freshwater glacier ice. That means they may be able to survive longer as climate change makes sea ice scarce.

National

A nonprofit in Tuscon, Arizona, is fighting a new enemy: climate change

5:10am June 16, 2022

NPR's A Martinez talks to Jason De Leon of the Colibrí Center for human rights about climate change heating up the land around the U.S.-Mexico border, making the journey for migrants more hazardous.