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WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week. This week's guests include: Cindy McCormick of the…

By Neta C. Crawford, Boston UniversityRepublished from TheConversation.comScientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global…

Joel Clement, who was director of the Interior Department's Office of Policy Analysis during the Obama administration, says in a newspaper op-ed that he was reassigned to an "accounting office."

Donald Trump wrote in a tweet that global warming is "nonexistent." NPR's Rachel Martin talks to climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about what Trump's presidency will mean for climate policy.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with environmental policy expert Leah Stokes about what the Democrats' spending plan can achieve on climate, with President Biden's clean electricity performance plan in limbo.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on a new report from a U.N. panel on global climate change. It says that extreme weather events, like huge snowstorms and floods, are becoming more frequent, and may be signs of the slow process of global warming.

The Clinton Administration announced today in Geneva that it will push for a legally binding treaty to combat global climate change. Such a treaty would limit emissions of greenhouse gases -- chiefly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. NPR's David Baron reports that the U.S. position has sparked odd -- but predictable -- coalitions of countries and industries on both sides of the proposal.

The annual U.N. climate conference opened in Egypt with alarming warnings about the global climate and questions about human rights in the host country.

Former EPA chief Gina McCarthy is President-elect Joe Biden's pick for domestic climate adviser. She'll have a big role pushing for aggressive climate action across the government.

President Bush invites 15 countries to the White House to talk about ways to slow global warming. But he has been criticized for moving too slowly to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. There's skepticism that the meeting will bring real progress.