Climate Change

This record-setting heat wave's remarkable power, size and unusually early appearance is giving meteorologists and climate experts yet more cause for concern about the routinization of extreme weather in an era of climate change.

Waste from crops, logging — even cities — can be turned into a more sustainable jet fuel. Airlines are lobbying for tax incentives that would put more of it into their fuel mix.

More than 250 landowners who live along an oil pipeline corridor that cuts across northern Minnesota can expect to receive additional information in the mail in the next few weeks about removing those pipelines from their land.

The final of a three-part series by MPR's Chris Farrell about the economy and climate change, called "The Greener Good." This episode is about ethical investing.

A group of about 100 people who oppose the pipeline that is primed to be laid near a stretch of the Mississippi in Clearwater County pitched tents, built compost toilets and established a camp along the timber-mat boardwalk that extends to the riverbanks. The group ended its eight-day occupation of the space Monday evening.

On a 2-1 vote, a Minnesota Court of Appeals panel has upheld the state's approval of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project, dealing a blow to tribes and environmental groups battling the project.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday over a challenge to a key water quality permit that it granted to the Line 3 oil pipeline project.

Minnesota state lawmakers are trying to hammer out a deal on clean car rules. Meanwhile, Midwest dairy farmers are cashing in on California's clean car standards by supplying the state with perhaps the smelliest clean fuel out there.

More than 200 people were arrested during protests against the Line 3 oil pipeline project Monday near the Mississippi River headwaters.

A record dry year is creating extreme drought in the West. But even if it rains, climate change will continue to shrink the water supply for millions of people.