Wilma Banks, who lives in the neighborhood of New Orleans East, sits on her bed next to her nebulizer and CPAP machine. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, when much of New Orleans was left without power, she wasn't able to power up the medical devices and had only her limited supply of inhalers to widen her airways. Kathleen Flynn for ProPublica hide caption
China says it will stop financing new coal-fired power plants in other countries, but coal use is expected to keeping rising within its borders. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. Department of Labor building on March 26, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A patchwork of national and state regulations require utilities to trim around their power lines. More than a dozen of the country's largest utilities told NPR that falling trees and branches represent a leading cause of outages. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption
One thorny issue facing President Biden at the United Nations: the defense deal he announced with Australia and the U.K., which left France so angry it pulled its ambassador from Washington, D.C. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
A helicopter drops water on the Windy Fire burning in the Trail of 100 Giants grove of Sequoia National Forest, Calif., on Sunday. Noah Berger/AP hide caption
Nick Prior adds a keeper to the box for his grandfather Verge to band its claws. Nick hopes to continue the family tradition but isn't sure lobstering is sustainable as a career. Shannon Mullen for NPR hide caption
Sequoia trees stand in Lost Grove along Generals Highway as the KNP Complex Fire burns about 15 miles away on Friday, in Sequoia National Park, Calif. Noah Berger/AP hide caption
Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement will require completely eliminating carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants like this one in Adamsville, Alabama ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The city of Austin, Texas, has installed cameras that let residents see rising floodwaters at key intersections. It also has online maps of flooded areas, which TV newscasts sometimes show. Eddie Gaspar/KUT hide caption
The 2020 Castle Fire burned the Alder Creek sequoia grove with extreme intensity, killing many of the 1,000-year-old trees there. Without any green foliage, the trees can't survive or resprout. Lauren Sommer/NPR hide caption
Steam rises from the Miller coal power plant in Adamsville, Ala., in April. An industry group says a climate plan in Congress would shut down all U.S. coal plants by 2030 or earlier. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Commuters walk into a flooded subway station and disrupted service due to extremely heavy rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 2, 2021. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images hide caption
For a forthcoming study, researchers with the U.K.'s University of Bath and other schools spoke to 10,000 people in 10 countries, all of whom were between the ages of 16 and 25, to gauge how they feel about climate change. FG Trade/Getty Images hide caption
Firefighters battle the Caldor Fire this month along Highway 89 west of Lake Tahoe in California. Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption
People shield their faces from wind and sand ahead of Tropical Storm Nicholas, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, on the North Packery Channel Jetty in Corpus Christi, Texas. Annie Rice/AP hide caption
Homes that were sold by the Department of Housing and Urban Development between January 2017 and August 2020 are in federally designated flood zones at almost 75 times the rate of all homes sold nationwide in that period. New Jersey is one hot spot. Here, flooding from Tropical Storm Henri in Helmetta, N.J., this August. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Nicholas in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. AP hide caption
A webcam still showing blizzard conditions at Summit Station, a weather research station at Greenland's highest point. In August, the station recorded rain for the first time ever. Arctic Research Support and Logistics Services / National Science Foundation hide caption
"This used to be paradise. Now it's hell," says pine resin producer Giorgos Anagnostou, 38, standing on top of a mountain near his village of Kourkouloi in northern Evia. The fire wiped out the forest's pine trees and his livelihood. Demetrios Ioannou for NPR hide caption