Climate

Climate Curious: Ask a climate expert
"As part of our Climate Curious project, MPR News asked listeners what they want to know about climate change. MPR News Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner sat down with a climate reporter and a climate scientist to answer some of the questions listeners submitted."
Climate Curious: Does climate change make predicting the weather more difficult?
MPR News is answering your climate change questions, and Climate Cast is helping out. Mary Dow-Bunnell asks: How is climate change affecting meteorologists’ ability to accurately predict the weather?
Here comes the sun: Solar schools project launches in central Minn.
A ribbon-cutting Thursday will mark the official opening of the project, which will use onsite solar energy to power schools in two different districts and a community college. Organizers hope the project will become a model for schools interested in cutting energy costs by investing in solar.
Earth's oceans are getting hotter and higher, and it's accelerating
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest report on the oceans, and it's not good. The report also notes a relatively new phenomenon in the oceans: marine heat waves.
Tom Friedman of New York Times speaks about global, local challenges
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Tom Friedman speaks at the University of Minnesota about ways to face our global and local challenges.
As personal challenge, writer makes climate change a mainstream literary topic
Writer Amitav Ghosh chided the literary world of writers, critics and readers to take climate change seriously and make it a central topic. While his new novel “Gun Island” does that, it’s also a page turner.
U.N. climate summit sets stage for new national emissions promises
Humanity is not on track to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. Delegations from nearly 200 countries are meeting to discuss promises they made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
'Deficit of trust': At U.N., leaders of a warming world gather
The planet is getting hotter, and tackling that climate peril will grab the spotlight as world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the United Nations this week facing an undeniable backdrop: rising tensions from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan and increasing nationalism, inequality and intolerance.