Climate

A new climate change report offers something unique: hope
Electric vehicles and solar power are growing quickly and offering hope the world could still meet climate change goals.
Toymaker Lego will stick to its quest to find sustainable materials despite failed recycle attempt
Denmark’s Lego says it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work.
Biden is unveiling the American Climate Corps, a program with echoes of the New Deal
The White House says the program will provide paid training to 20,000 Americans in its first year. It’s much smaller than its New Deal predecessor, but targets a more diverse group of young people.
Preparing homes for wildfires is big business that's only getting started
Climate change, technological leaps, panicked insurers, the shifting sense of responsibility: All are powering the still-nascent, but fast-growing industry of preparing homes for wildfires.
 The climate crisis is causing climate anxiety
MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about the mental health impact of climate change on young adults and what can be done to help ease climate anxiety.
Let skeeters feed on you for science? Welcome to front lines of mosquito control
At the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District, working on the front lines of mosquito control can be a prickly job. A technician volunteered to stick her arm into a glass tank to give scores of the insects a chance to feed on her blood. It was all in the name of sustaining a species important for research.