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Heavy rain and flooding in Connecticut over the weekend caused significant damage to crops across the state. The state Department of Agriculture is collecting information from farmers to file its second disaster declaration request of the year.

Some researchers now say that tens of thousands of deaths due to kidney failure may be linked to climate change. But others aren't so sure.

It's looking like 2024 will be the hottest year since record-keeping began, unseating 2023 for the top spot. Climate change is playing a role, and scientists say it was even hotter than expected.

Climate change is driving more extreme weather events in the region where many cocoa beans are grown. A brother-sister team in Germany is working on a solution: making chocolate without cocoa beans.

After two years of sluggish environmental legislative action, state lawmakers in 2025 passed several big initiatives on climate change.

Rep. Jim Bridenstine is a fighter pilot who wants Americans to return to the moon but doesn't believe that humans are causing climate change.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report on how the world's oceans and ice are affected by climate change. Sea level rise is accelerating as is ocean warming.

"There's a war, and it's between fossil fuel and saving the planet," says Tony Buxton, a Maine attorney who represents industrial energy consumers such as paper mills and ski areas. "And I'm saying that as a representative of business, not as a representative of some left-wing organization. ... We need to get to work on this."

As dangerous record temperatures driven by climate change and El Niño continue to hit Texas, local health experts look ahead to combating heat poised to reach Connecticut this summer.

Climate change is fueling more destructive, harder-to-control disasters like last year's massive wildfires. The mental and emotional toll for firefighters and first responders is alarming.