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More than 1,000 homes were lost in the Marshall fire in Colorado last December. Now residents are wondering if they can afford to rebuild energy efficient, resilient homes.

Climate-related storms are becoming more frequent and severe. NPR and PBS FRONTLINE investigate the forces keeping communities from building back in a way that protects them from the next storm.

Pandemic-era federal funding allowed Vermont to double its budget for free weatherization for low income households, and, for the first time, help people with leaky roofs or dirt floor basements. Now, a key share of that money is about to dry up.

Auto plants are shut amid a walkout against Big 3 automakers. Tens of thousands of people kick off a week of climate protests in New York. Drew Barrymore postpones show's return until strikes end.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told COP26 that India, the world's third-biggest carbon emitter, would go net-zero by 2070. But appetite for coal, which supplies 70% of India's power, remains high.

Extreme wildfires have destroyed about one-fifth of all giant sequoia trees. To safeguard their future, the National Park Service is planting seedlings that could better survive a hotter climate.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports on the re-emergence of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as a popular figure in Russia. Soon after the Soviet Union collapsed there was talk about removing him from his mauseleum to be buried. Lenin's body is now back on display from its bienniel cleaning. And, the changing political climate in Russia means it will probably stay in its prominent place in Red Square.

David Kestenbaum reports on astronomers plans to deal with some future climate changes. A billion years from now the sun will swell and grow brighter as it burns more fuel. By nudging an asteroid into close passes with the earth, they say it would be possible to move our planet into a cooler, more distant orbit. That would buy us a five billion years to figure out what happens when the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs us.

American speed skating has traditionally been dominated by athletes from the upper Midwest, skaters with hair and skin as pale as the frozen lakes and rinks they raced on as kids. But that has all changed due to the popularity of in-line skating in warmer climates, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports for Morning Edition.

The new documentary An Inconvenient Truth is an important counterbalance to the misinformation about global warming, say Al Gore and film producer Laurie David. The movie is based on the former vice president's slideshow presentation on climate change.