Climate

Apostle Islands ice caves access not looking promising this winter
While there still are weeks of winter ahead, officials at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in northern Wisconsin say it's not looking promising for access to the park's famed Lake Superior ice caves.
The Biden administration is all in on EVs, but what about public transit?
Last year’s infrastructure bill includes a significant investment in electric vehicle charging stations — along with new roads and highway expansions. Public transit gets a much smaller piece of the pie.
Two people remain missing after Colorado wildfire
Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire, while people who barely escaped the flames sorted through what was left after the blaze and investigators tried to determine its cause.
Kentucky storms bring flooding, power outages, possible tornadoes
Kentucky’s governor declared a state of emergency on Saturday as storms ripped through the state causing flash floods, power outages and property damage, including from possible tornadoes. The storms came just three weeks after deadly tornadoes tore through the region.
Official: Three people missing, nearly 1,000 structures destroyed in Colorado wildfire
A Colorado official says nearly 1,000 homes were destroyed, hundreds more were damaged, and that three people are missing after a wildfire charred numerous neighborhoods in a suburban area at the base of the Rocky Mountains northwest of Denver.
Minnesota forests, peatlands on list of 'irrecoverable carbon'
A Conservation International study has mapped forests and other natural areas that store so much carbon, it could be impossible to offset their emissions if lost to development or natural disasters.
University of Minnesota meets its emissions reduction goal a year early
A new report says the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus has surpassed its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2021. It reached 51 percent a year early, in 2020.
In 2021, climate ambitions soared and crashed in the U.S. and around the world
President Joe Biden's lofty domestic goals were brought down to earth by congressional opposition, notably from one Democratic senator. International efforts to fight planetary warming also fell short.