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NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Matthew Bunn, a nuclear and energy policy analyst and professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, about the role nuclear power will play in the future. As world leaders meet in Paris for the U.N. climate summit, they discuss if countries are moving away or toward nuclear energy and and given safety and budget concerns, whether atomic power makes sense anymore.

2024 will be awash in new (and sometimes familiar) buzzwords that point up the polycrises (another buzzword) around the planet. Here's a guide for the perplexed.

Gov. Ned Lamont and legislative leaders decided to tackle a narrow scope of issues they say are tied to upcoming deadlines and effective dates.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jennifer Morgan, global director of the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute. They discuss what success in Paris would be and what has to happen afterward.

Florida and a handful of other states declined to apply for millions of federal dollars for projects to draw down carbon emissions. Now it falls to cities to make their own climate plans.

Nearly two dozen Connecticut farms and producers are getting state funds this year to brace against extreme weather conditions tied to climate change.

President Biden has declared the U.S. is back as a leader in combatting disastrous climate change. But after years of unfulfilled pledges, how do other countries view American leadership and promises?

The U.S. and China say they will work together to tackle climate change. It's a rare display of cooperation amid an overall tense relationship.

More and more writers are setting their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth's systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — "cli-fi," for short.

Somini Sengupta, international climate reporter for The New York Times,discusses the dire consequences of rising temperatures, such as drought, famine, disease, war and increased migration.