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Climate change is here. And this week, NPR is doing something new. We're dedicating an entire week to focus on the search for climate solutions, with stories across our network.

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

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The essence of the Paris climate agreement was distilled into a single number. The almost 200 countries that signed the pact in 2016 agreed they would try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...

During the last ice age, storms soaked the now-arid Southwestern U.S., while today's rainy Pacific Northwest remained relatively dry. As global temperatures rose and ice sheets retreated, those storms ...

The researchers define this as a threshold of lifetime exposure to extreme weather that someone living in a world without climate change would have only a one in 10,000 chance of experiencing.

Climate change, fossil fuels hurting people's health, says new report The latest Lancet Countdown, an annual analysis from the prestigious medical journal, underscores the vast and growing costs ...