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State and municipal leaders are trying to figure out how they can better prepare for more weather extremes. An emergency meeting of the Maine Climate Council was called Tuesday after three winter storms inundated coastal and riverfront communities within just one month.

Federal scientists have found that 2025 was among the hottest years on record since the Industrial Revolution, continuing a warming trend and bringing Earth closer to a crucial threshold.

A brand-new hedge fund wants ExxonMobil to take climate change more seriously. And despite Exxon's intense opposition, it managed to fill at least two seats on the oil giant's board of directors.

Life as we know it is being threatened by everything from climate change to resource depletion. Commentator Adam Frank looks back at 1177 B.C. — and what we might learn from peoples past.

Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes.

Supreme Court adopts its first code of ethics. Israel says it has evidence of a Hamas military compound beneath a Gaza hospital. A U.S. government report on climate change stands to influence policy.

The federal government has released 50 years of previously classified data on the Arctic Ocean, collected by the U.S. and Russian armed forces. Some believe the data will provide new clues into how global climate has changed over the past half-century. NPR's David Baron reports.

With millions of land mines dotting its landscape and its political climate still shaky, Afghanistan may not seem like an obvious tourist destination. But shopkeepers and other entrepreneurs hope to attract vacationers to the mountainous beauty of their land. Renee Montagne reports for the Morning Edition series "Re-Creating Afghanistan."

A year after the U.S. invasion, Iraq's neighbors are adapting to the new political and economic climate in the region. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Ambassador Robert Pelletreau about the changes in three countries: Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.

In the second part of Morning Edition's series on Latin American cities, NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the dark political climate of Guatemala City. The capital city, like Guatemala itself, has been scarred by decades of bloodshed, coups, and authoritarian governments.