Oil jobs are big risk, big pay. Green energy offers stability and passionOctober 21, 2020 1:21 PMBy Camila Domonoske Workers in the energy sector face two paths: The oil industry offers big salaries but more volatility, while clean energy pays less but provides more stability and a sense of mission.
Play7min 36secIs your home at risk of wildfire in a changing climate? 6 questions to askOctober 21, 2020 12:26 PMBy Lauren Sommer More and more Americans now live in wildfire-prone landscapes and have no idea of the perils they face. Here's how to find out.
August's Iowa derecho was most costly thunderstorm event in modern U.S. historyOctober 18, 2020 3:55 PMBy Matthew S. Schwartz The powerful derecho that swept through the Midwest in August, focusing its destruction on central Iowa, is officially the most costly thunderstorm event in recorded U.S. history with at least $7.5 billion in damage.
Play4min 00secExperts worry NOAA appointees will undermine climate scienceOctober 15, 2020 4:00 PMBy Paul HuttnerOne of the appointees has questioned the link between climate change and extreme weather events. The other questions humans’ role in climate change.
Medical residents learn to treat the growing health hazards of climate changeOctober 12, 2020 4:01 AMBy Martha Bebinger From heat-related illness to mosquito-borne infections, physicians are seeing the effects of a warming planet in the exam room. There's a growing push to teach doctors-in-training how to respond.
Play4min 17secFlower pigments are changing as temperatures rise, ozone depletesOctober 8, 2020 4:00 PMBy Paul Huttner and Megan BurksA new study shows one way climate change is affecting flowers — and how that might harm pollinators.
Play4min 16secOcean water isn't mixing like it used to, and that could have grave consequencesOctober 2, 2020 11:43 AMBy Paul Huttner and Megan BurksOceans are becoming more stratified, and that could have grave consequences for the health of marine animals and humans alike.
Play4min 00secLike factory-built homes, nuclear reactors are going modularSeptember 24, 2020 4:29 PMBy Paul Huttner and Megan BurksThe federal government recently approved a new kind of nuclear reactor that’s smaller, cheaper and could be one the final pieces of the carbon-free puzzle.
Play9min 58sec'It was angry in the way it gobbled up the ground': Fighting fires on the front line of climate changeSeptember 18, 2020 12:33 PMBy Paul Huttner and Megan BurksThis year’s historic fire season in the west has made the link between climate change and more intense and frequent wildfires abundantly clear. For firefighter Don Whittemore, it was a close call with a fireball in 2006.
Play48min 24secHow is the coronavirus pandemic affecting climate change?September 17, 2020 5:25 PMBy Angela Davis and Karen ZamoraClimate scientist Kim Cobb and MPR News Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner joined host Angela Davis to explore how the pandemic is affecting climate change. We're flying less, staying at home more — is it helping?