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News Articles: climate change

Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather.  That is changing communities, including those in Southwest Florida that were damaged by Hurricane Ian in 2022.

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  • Climate

It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.

Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.

November 12, 2025
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By:
  • Michael Copley,
  • Lauren Sommer,
  • and 2 more

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  • Climate

Climate negotiations have started. Here's how far countries need to go

Nations have begun climate negotiations at the COP30 summit in Brazil. Studies show the world is not on track to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change.

November 11, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Volunteers hand out yard signs in June against a data center complex in West Virginia.

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  • Climate

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.

October 14, 2025
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By:
  • Michael Copley
A gas pipeline construction crew in Wyncote, Pa. replaces older pipes that are prone to leak climate-heating methane. Projects like this are increasing gas customer bills, even as wholesale gas prices are relatively low.

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  • Climate

Natural gas prices are low, but your monthly gas bill is up. Here's why

Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.

October 13, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
As a result of President Trump signing his key legislative agenda, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in July, the tax credits for large-scale renewable energy projects will end if construction begins after July 4, 2026, or if the project isn't placed into service by Dec. 31, 2027. Now, without those tax credits, Hopi Chairman Tim Nuvangyaoma (pictured here) and his tribe will have to go back to the drawing board to finance large-scale utility renewable energy projects that could power the entire reservation …

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  • Climate

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

October 07, 2025
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By:
  • Nate Perez and
  • Ryan Kellman
Wind turbines in Goldendale, Wa. Employees at the Energy Department office that funds clean energy technology were told to avoid using terms including "climate change" and "green," according to an email obtained by NPR.

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  • Climate

Energy Dept. tells employees not to use words including 'climate change' and 'green'

The banned words list applies to all work done at the largest federal funder of clean energy technology.

September 30, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher and
  • Julia Simon
The Fortunatos' Green Idea House in Hermosa Beach, Calif., has a flat roof with a 5-foot overhang that shields the sun and cools the home.

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  • Climate

5 lessons from a house that generates more energy than it uses

With higher utility bills, a house that produces more energy than it uses may be appealing. In Southern California, one such house has existed for more than a decade: the "Green Idea House" in Hermosa Beach.

September 22, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
The sun sets in Tangier Island, Va., where climate change and rising sea levels threaten the inhabitants of the slowly sinking island.

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  • Climate

This small Virginia island could be underwater before the next century

Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels and climate change.

September 22, 2025
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By:
  • Julie Depenbrock
On the outskirts of Dhanbad, in India's Jharkhand state, heaps of coal are loaded onto a train car in August. India is the world's third-largest greenhouse gas polluter and relies heavily on coal for electricity generation.

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  • Climate

Leaders promised to cut climate pollution, then doubled down on fossil fuels

Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal.

September 22, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
A firefighter battles the Canyon Fire in August in Hasley Canyon, Calif. As temperatures rise with human-caused climate change, wildfire risk is getting worse.

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  • Climate

Ted Cruz claims without evidence that China is funding U.S. climate lawsuits

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has said China is funding climate lawsuits against American oil and gas companies to weaken the U.S. He hasn't provided evidence to support the claim.

September 19, 2025
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By:
  • Michael Copley
People take pictures at a vista point with the San Francisco skyline obscured by smoke from wildfires during a spate of smoke during 2020, one of the worst wildfire smoke years on record.

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  • Climate

Wildfire smoke is killing Americans. A new study quantifies how much

More intense future wildfires, fueled by further climate change, could lead to 70,000 deaths from smoke exposure a year, according to a new study.

September 19, 2025
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
The Rhône Glacier in Switzerland is the source of the Rhône River, which flows through Switzerland and France. Swiss glaciers like this one are melting quickly, reduced by nearly two-thirds of their ice over the past century.

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  • Europe

Melting glaciers mean an uncertain future for Europe's rivers

Europe is warming faster than any continent. That's speeding up glacial melt, which is already threatening Europe's largest rivers.

September 15, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks during a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House in September.

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  • Climate

Trump's Energy Department disbands group that sowed doubt about climate change

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.

September 13, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Brady and
  • Julia Simon
Cicadas from a 17-year cicada brood and shells shed by cicada nymphs sit at the base of a tree on May 29, 2024, in Park Ridge, Ill. Cicadas are of the order Hemiptera — the type of winged insects commonly found in the study of insect declines.

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  • Science

Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

September 12, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
skyline of Midtown Atlanta in the background of dry grass

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  • Mental Health

Experts say more severe weather is on the way. Here's how to protect your mental health

When dangerous weather is on the way, knowing that help will be available on the other side of the storm can help calm anxiety. Experts say addressing mental health is a critical part of disaster preparation.

September 11, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
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