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NEXT weekly podcast: Episode 242

For some people attending the UN's COP26 conference in Scotland, climate change is not a future threat — they are seeing its impact on their homelands now.

With a Paris climate agreement just over a week old, President Obama is singling out the GOP on climate change in an interview with NPR.

This week: The state has a new head of Coastal Zone Management, which could impact climate planning around our region; a driver eluded police on Martha's Vineyard, crashed through a security gate, and went headlong into the water off the end of the Oak Bluffs ferry terminal; and, Orleans is getting some big public art.

For the first time ever, the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative is offering an in-person climate conference for free.

The climate talks opened Monday in Copenhagen, with more than 190 nations represented. The U.S. and China have pledged some actions already, but negotiators so far haven't even agreed about what the overall deal will look like.

A new study projects just how bad things could get for biodiversity if global warming speeds up. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that under the most extreme warming scenarios, about one in three species could be threatened with extinction by the end of the century.

An expert in climate change research, Paul Mayewski led the National Science Foundation's Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2. The project extracted ice cores chronicling 100,000 years of climate history. Mayewski, with co-author Frank White, writes about their expeditions in the new book, The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change (University Press of New England). Mayewski is also co-director of the Institute of Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine.

More frequent and severe wildfires and hurricanes have caused billions of dollars of damage in the U.S. Climate experts warn the costs to the economy and to individual families are only rising.

After a year of historic flooding, some Vermont lawmakers and environmental advocates are pushing for the state to create a new program similar to the federal Superfund program to pay for climate damages with money from big oil companies.