A pedestrian tries to cross a flooded Queen Street, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, in Honolulu. Marco Garcia/AP hide caption
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Activists protesting "greenwashing," in which a company or government appears to do more for the environment than it is, gather outside the JP Morgan premises near the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit. Alastair Grant/AP hide caption
Carbon trading gets a green light from the U.N., and Brazil hopes to earn billions
Homes and businesses are flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, La., Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
A snow-free Denver, pictured on Friday. The previous record for the city's latest ever first snowfall was Nov. 21, recorded in 1934. Thomas Peipert/AP hide caption
A remote-controlled RC surfer riding a king tide wave during the astronomical event last year, in Huntington Beach, Calif. The National Weather Service says the California coast will see unusually high and low tides over the weekend. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Jane Goodall Says There's Hope For Our Planet. Act Now, Despair Later!
Sixteen-year-old Sofia (left) and 13-year-old André Oliveira stand in Parque da Paz in Lisbon. The siblings are two of six young people in Portugal who are suing the governments of Europe's most polluting countries, including their own, to force them to cut emissions. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
These Portuguese kids are suing 33 European countries to force them to cut emissions
Jeneyah McDonald used to spend much of her days looking for enough clean water. Sylvia Jarrus for NPR hide caption
Billions of federal dollars could replace lead pipes. Flint has history to share
Premature greening in urban trees could have negative environmental and economic impacts, a new study has found. Cindy Ord/Getty Images hide caption
An oil well works at sunrise Aug. 25, 2021, in Watford City, N.D., part of McKenzie County. The Biden administration on Friday, Nov. 26, called for an overhaul of the nation's oil and gas leasing program. Matthew Brown/AP hide caption
Reverend Billy (William Talen, left) among a flock of supporters. Courtesy of Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping hide caption
Veteran anti-consumerist crusader Reverend Billy takes aim at climate change
The Baltimore Gas and Electric Fitzell substation in Edgemere, Md., is about a year old and was built so that it can eventually be modified to provide more capacity. Ian Morton for NPR hide caption
The biggest problem facing the U.S. electric grid isn't demand. It's climate change
A car is submerged by floodwaters on a portion of I-94 in Detroit, several days after heavy rains flooded parts of the city in June. Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Detroit homes are being overwhelmed by flooding — and it's not just water coming in
Sailboats used by smugglers to transport migrants and refugees are beached on Le Cannelle beach in Isola Capo Rizzuto, Calabria region, Southern Italy, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. Alessandra Tarantino/AP hide caption
Janis Elliott lives in the unincorporated Iowa town of Avon. She put a reverse osmosis system in her home after she found nitrate levels almost double the EPA health standard. Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio hide caption
Climate change is making it harder to provide clean drinking water in farm country
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Climate change is making it harder to provide clean drinking water in farm country
Nyayua Thang, 62, left, stands waist-deep in the floodwaters in front of an abandoned primary school in South Sudan. Members of her village, displaced by extreme flooding as a result of heavy rainfall, are using the building as a refuge. Only small mud dikes at the entrance of the door are keeping the water out. (November 2020) Peter Caton for Action Against Hunger hide caption
Motorists fill up their vehicles at a Shell station on July 22 in Denver. Phasing out the sale of gas-powered cars once seemed laughable. It's now inching closer to reality. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption
Sea levels in Guyana are rising several times faster than the global average. High tides sometimes spill over the seawall that is meant to protect the coastline. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption
A supply ship sits anchored next to the Chevron Corp. Jack/St. Malo deepwater oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in May 2018. The Biden administration is auctioning millions of acres of the Gulf for oil and gas lease sales. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A man operates a personal watercraft along a road flooded by water from the Skagit River on Monday in Sedro-Woolley, Wash. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption
The ringed antpipit (corythopis torquatus) was among the 77 species examined in the recent study. Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty hide caption