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Climate and environment policies nearly always end up in court these days. They may have a harder time surviving if Amy Coney Barrett cements a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

Local experts spoke to us about how climate change will impact communities, following news that 2024 was the hottest year on record.

The sweeping plan calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to tighten carbon dioxide emissions on power plants and is designed to foster cleaner forms of electricity. The initiative also aims to help the nation cope with droughts and other weather related changes that are already happening.

The final day of COP26, the UN's conference where global leaders and delegates are negotiating crucial and concrete strategies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, is underway in Glasgow, Scotland.

Some schools have closed early for summer. More than a billion people are in danger of heatstroke. Summer's early arrival in South Asia also threatens global grain supplies.

Climate change is already causing expensive problems for people and towns in the Northeast, according to the latest National Climate Assessment. As a whole, the United States is now experiencing a billion-dollar weather or climate disaster every three weeks, on average.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Hilda Heine, president of the Marshall Islands, about the impact of climate change on the small Pacific island nation.

Young people from around the world are protesting over world leaders' response to climate change at the UN's climate summit in Glasgow on Friday.

President Trump is nearing a decision on whether to pull out of the Paris climate agreement and has been meeting this week with competing voices in his Cabinet.

Bill Bartlett says he’s seen winters warm up over the last few decades on the blueberry farm he owns with his wife in Newport.