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With much of the U.S. facing extreme weather, NASA chief scientist and senior climate adviser Kate Calvin talks to NPR's A Martinez about what we can expect as global temperatures continue to rise.

As President, Jimmy Carter's priorities included energy efficiency and shifting away from foreign crude oil. The actions he took were criticized then, but laid the groundwork for a country to address climate change now.

Informational signs containing information on climate change, ecology and Native American history have been removed from Maine's Acadia National Park, one of the country's most popular national parks. Many national parks are seeing similar actions.

"I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives," the congresswoman said.

Climate change is an everyday reality for students and teachers living in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. At one school, they are trying to learn more about the forces that could upend their lives.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, about the current outlook on climate change and the global endeavor to combat it.

"Steam loops" under hundreds of U.S. cities and universities have warmed buildings for a century. Now they could become a climate change solution.

The state of Massachusetts granted cities and towns more than $31.5 million to prepare for climate change. It includes more than $2 million to the Stockbridge-Munsee Nation to acquire and conserve 351 acres of their original homelands.

The Atlantic hurricane season produced a normal number of storms, compared to more frequent storms in recent years. But the storms that did form were huge.

Steep cuts in federal funds for agriculture research over the last 20 years threatens farming's fight against climate change.