Alyson Hurt
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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Climate change hasn't increased the total number of hurricanes hitting the U.S., but it is making dangerous storms more common.
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There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
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Melting glaciers are leaving behind unstable lakes around the world. Millions of people live downstream, in places increasingly threatened by deadly flash floods. What will it take to protect them?
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Ice in Antarctica is melting rapidly. That's driving sea level rise around the world. But some places are threatened more than others, and Texas is in the crosshairs.
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Melting glaciers and ice sheets are far from where most people live. But the impacts stretch across the planet. See if you can guess how.
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Climate change is pushing already endangered right whales to the brink. Scientists say the oceans will fundamentally shift as the world's ice melts.
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The ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking as the climate gets hotter. Scientists are finding it could be linked to weather that's helping fuel disasters.
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The UNESCO World Heritage city of Saint-Louis is perched precariously between the Atlantic Ocean and the Senegal River. And it's on borrowed time.
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Sweeping global trends are changing the world. As climate change heats up the planet and pushes people to migrate, far-right politicians see both a threat and an opportunity.
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An NPR analysis of security footage and photos following the attack on Europe's largest nuclear power plant shows that many of the plant's critical safety systems were in the field of Russian fire.