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Kernza is seed grain scientists have been selectively breeding, hoping to develop into a food crop that's more climate friendly than wheat and corn. Liquor distillers are interested.

Scientists are predicting that average sea levels could rise as much as 3 feet by the end of the century. However, the country's deep religious beliefs have residents of the tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean torn between God and science.

Despite the cascade of other crises this year, climate change has emerged as a key election issue. The two major-party presidential candidates' positions on it could not be more different.

Australia's newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is in Bali, Indonesia, for the U.N. Conference on Climate Change. Rudd is a strong supporter of addressing climate change, a stance that helped him get elected to office.

Portland, Oregon, will fund clean energy in communities that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. That's an idea that's part of President-elect Joe Biden's sweeping climate plan.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is visiting China to re-establish climate change discussions between the world's two biggest economies.

Climate change has caused rapidly melting ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic. Once inhospitable to business ventures, economic forecasters are now predicting some $100 billion will be invested there over the next decade. NPR's Arun Rath talks with Isaac Arnsdorf of Bloomberg about the boom.

Researchers who study evidence of fires through the millennia say to expect more and bigger fires as the climate continues to warm. Fire season is already months longer than in the 1970s.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with psychologist Elke Weber about the way individuals deal with the threat of climate change.

The United Nations' annual climate conference, COP 29, has wrapped. The goal was to raise money from to help developing nations cut climate pollution and prepare for future threats.