COP31 - the annual UN negotiations on climate change - starts on Monday. The talks have been going on for decades, during which the planet has gotten hotter. So, do these climate talks really matter?

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Alex Fogg, Natural Resources Chief of Okaloosa County, Florida, about efforts to deliberately sink the SS United States and create an artificial reef in its wreckage.

The Trump administration is working to rescind the "Roadless Rule," which blocks road construction in some national forests. This could affect Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

From Arctic landscapes to insect bodies, climate change is shifting the familiar colors of nature.

The Chesapeake Bay, home to blue crabs and striped bass, has a new apex predator: the blue catfish.

What could be the effects of an extreme El Nino this winter on California, and how are towns preparing?

Last October, remnants of a typhoon slammed into the Western Alaska coast. We hear from the ground from Kipnuk about how people are trying to rebuild enough to move back.

A slate of new progressives will be heading to Washington next year, many of whom cite climate action as a top priority.

Historically high rainfalls and river flooding hit Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah for the second week in a row. Impacts, are widespread, some people will have a hard time voting.

New research suggests that spiders reach an active REM-like sleep state, similar to humans.