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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.

The state's Republican governor allowed the bill to become law without his signature. The move comes after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather.

Extensive early warnings and years of adaptation made the floods less deadly than they otherwise might have been.

Many island nations have the most to lose when it comes to the climate crisis. But at the COP26 U.N. climate summit, they insist they aren't victims, they're warriors.

In a Wyoming oil field, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy are experimenting with injecting carbon dioxide underground to keep it from entering the atmosphere, where it contributes to global warming. But it's unclear if the greenhouse gas will stay below ground.

The state's climate council is considering ways to progress on goals without federal support.