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Heavy rain caused flash flooding in parts of the northeast on Monday. Climate change is fueling more intense rainstorms that drop more water in shorter periods of time.

Climate scientists say this winter's storms in California are nothing compared to what's predicted in a warmer world. Some residents in one community question whether its time to leave.

Mexico City is draining even more water from the ancient lake bed on which the city sits, causing it to sink. Climate change, political inaction and poor infrastructure are intensifying the problem.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the continued finger pointing in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A national debate in Israel about who and what fostered the climate for such extremism. While some are pointing to the rhetoric of of nationalist rabbis others are looking to elite religious schools called Yeshivas. The lone gunman Yigal Amir attended one of these schools, schools that religious and military studies.

- NPR's Lynn Neary travels to South Carolina and visits two predominately black churches that were burned last year. One has been re-built, the other is nothing but rubble. Neary examines past history and the current climate in South Carolina with Blacks and Whites who were affected by the church burnings.

DuPont and other multinational corporations announce the launch of the Chicago Climate Exchange. The effort is the first major attempt at establishing a market for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. NPR's David Schaper reports.

of natural gas off the coast of North Carolina. They are untappable with today's technology, but they are of great interest because they could play an important role in climate change.

Conservatives are outraged at a California judge's decision to prevent the enactment of California's anti-affirnative action referndum. They say the will of the people shouldn't be overruled by the courts. Commentator Jacob Weisberg points out inconsistencies in their argument and explains that the conservative dislike for judicial activism was born in the political climate of the 1980s and needs rethinking.

One of the biggest debates emerging from the global warming treaty discussions taking place in the Hague is whether or not the terms of the 1997 Kyoto Climate Change protocol will allow the U.S. to meet most of its obligations by planting or preserving forests that suck up carbon dioxide. As NPR's John Nielsen reports, delegates from Europe and elsewhere are determined that nothing of the kind should happen.

A warming climate -- one in which disease-bearing insects flourish -- may be increasing the spread of plant and animal diseases, says a new study in Science Magazine. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on how global warming may be making the world a better place -- for parasites.