Covering ClimateHere & Now's continued coverage of climate change and environmental news.Extreme weather events make it difficult for California farmworkers to put food on their own tablesExtreme weather events, including the recent rains and last summer's heat, have taken on toll on some of the crops.Play05:16Jan 26, 2023The world is on track to use a record amount of coal in 2022This year, the world is on track to use more than 8 billion tons of coal, according to the International Energy Agency.Play03:50Dec 20, 2022Advertisement In Montana, young activists take fight against climate change to courtYoung people across the country are challenging state energy policy in court.Play09:33Dec 16, 2022Cars that pollute the most stay popular despite automakers' push for energy-efficient vehiclesA new report from the Environmental Protection Agency found that people continued to buy less-efficient trucks and SUVs through 2021 in spite of a push for low CO2 options.Play03:32Dec 13, 2022This historically dry, hot year is wreaking havoc across the U.S.In the Great Plains, widespread drought has dried up water supplies, decimated crop harvests and left cattle with no grass to eat.Play04:54Dec 6, 2022Floating wind farms off California to create more renewable energy sourcesDozens of energy companies are bidding for the right to build and operate floating wind farms off the coast of Morro Bay.Play04:56Dec 6, 2022Making the holidays greener — and cheaper — by reducing trash, toxins and wasteAmericans toss out about 25% more garbage during the holidays. Play09:25Nov 28, 2022Why eucalyptus overgrowth spurs wildfires in PortugalFive years ago, Portugal's biggest wildfires to date engulfed the country's center.Play05:49Nov 17, 2022How California plans to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045California released a plan Wednesday to reduce the state's dependence on fossil fuels.Play02:43Nov 17, 2022War in Ukraine gives country's scientists platform at COP27Russia's invasion of Ukraine is raising the profile of Ukrainian scientists and activists at COP27, the international climate conference in Egypt.Play03:44Nov 17, 2022Biden addresses climate summitPresident Biden just finished addressing the climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, where he was expected to do a victory lap following his administration’s $370 billion clean energy bill.Play05:21Nov 11, 2022Environmental reporters share the biggest climate issues impacting Brazil, Nigeria, PakistanIt's no question that climate change is an urgent issue affecting the entire world. Still, journalists continue to face challenges in helping people understand the climate crisis facing their local...Play10:54Nov 10, 2022Developing countries intensify calls for climate reparations at COP27Poorer countries suffer the brunt of floods, fires and hurricanes, but contribute far less of the carbon in the atmosphere that triggers those events.Play05:52Nov 9, 2022What's happening at COP27 so far?The global climate summit COP27 began Sunday, with leaders gathered in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to make decisions on how to tackle climate change.Play05:43Nov 8, 2022Only 5% to 6% of U.S. plastics get recycled, new Greenpeace report findsThe organization calls for the petrochemical industry to end the plastic recycling narrative that places the blame for pollution on the consumer rather than the industry itself.Play05:57Nov 2, 2022A Georgia group helps states put solar panels on unused roadside landEmily Jones of WABE visited the 18-mile Ray Highway in Georgia, where a solar array powers 100 homes.Play04:10Nov 2, 2022This California town is about to run out of waterThe Central Valley city of Coalinga, California, is on the verge of running out of water unless provided help soon. Play05:45Oct 21, 2022New head of EPA office of environmental justice says they're putting civil rights into agency's DNAWill the agency succeed where prior administrations and initiatives fell short? Play07:00Oct 18, 2022Dr. Bob Bond grew up going to Priest Lake, the remote Idaho wetlands at center of Supreme Court caseDr. Bob Bond has been coming to the lake since 1939 shortly after he was born. His Dad built a cabin there, not on wetlands, where Bond and his wife...Play06:03Oct 3, 2022How the 'Inherited' podcast helps us think imaginatively about the climate crisis"Inherited" is a podcast about the climate crisis as told by young people.Play10:42Sep 21, 2022Next Page
Extreme weather events make it difficult for California farmworkers to put food on their own tablesExtreme weather events, including the recent rains and last summer's heat, have taken on toll on some of the crops.Play05:16Jan 26, 2023
The world is on track to use a record amount of coal in 2022This year, the world is on track to use more than 8 billion tons of coal, according to the International Energy Agency.Play03:50Dec 20, 2022
In Montana, young activists take fight against climate change to courtYoung people across the country are challenging state energy policy in court.Play09:33Dec 16, 2022
Cars that pollute the most stay popular despite automakers' push for energy-efficient vehiclesA new report from the Environmental Protection Agency found that people continued to buy less-efficient trucks and SUVs through 2021 in spite of a push for low CO2 options.Play03:32Dec 13, 2022
This historically dry, hot year is wreaking havoc across the U.S.In the Great Plains, widespread drought has dried up water supplies, decimated crop harvests and left cattle with no grass to eat.Play04:54Dec 6, 2022
Floating wind farms off California to create more renewable energy sourcesDozens of energy companies are bidding for the right to build and operate floating wind farms off the coast of Morro Bay.Play04:56Dec 6, 2022
Making the holidays greener — and cheaper — by reducing trash, toxins and wasteAmericans toss out about 25% more garbage during the holidays. Play09:25Nov 28, 2022
Why eucalyptus overgrowth spurs wildfires in PortugalFive years ago, Portugal's biggest wildfires to date engulfed the country's center.Play05:49Nov 17, 2022
How California plans to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045California released a plan Wednesday to reduce the state's dependence on fossil fuels.Play02:43Nov 17, 2022
War in Ukraine gives country's scientists platform at COP27Russia's invasion of Ukraine is raising the profile of Ukrainian scientists and activists at COP27, the international climate conference in Egypt.Play03:44Nov 17, 2022
Biden addresses climate summitPresident Biden just finished addressing the climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, where he was expected to do a victory lap following his administration’s $370 billion clean energy bill.Play05:21Nov 11, 2022
Environmental reporters share the biggest climate issues impacting Brazil, Nigeria, PakistanIt's no question that climate change is an urgent issue affecting the entire world. Still, journalists continue to face challenges in helping people understand the climate crisis facing their local...Play10:54Nov 10, 2022
Developing countries intensify calls for climate reparations at COP27Poorer countries suffer the brunt of floods, fires and hurricanes, but contribute far less of the carbon in the atmosphere that triggers those events.Play05:52Nov 9, 2022
What's happening at COP27 so far?The global climate summit COP27 began Sunday, with leaders gathered in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to make decisions on how to tackle climate change.Play05:43Nov 8, 2022
Only 5% to 6% of U.S. plastics get recycled, new Greenpeace report findsThe organization calls for the petrochemical industry to end the plastic recycling narrative that places the blame for pollution on the consumer rather than the industry itself.Play05:57Nov 2, 2022
A Georgia group helps states put solar panels on unused roadside landEmily Jones of WABE visited the 18-mile Ray Highway in Georgia, where a solar array powers 100 homes.Play04:10Nov 2, 2022
This California town is about to run out of waterThe Central Valley city of Coalinga, California, is on the verge of running out of water unless provided help soon. Play05:45Oct 21, 2022
New head of EPA office of environmental justice says they're putting civil rights into agency's DNAWill the agency succeed where prior administrations and initiatives fell short? Play07:00Oct 18, 2022
Dr. Bob Bond grew up going to Priest Lake, the remote Idaho wetlands at center of Supreme Court caseDr. Bob Bond has been coming to the lake since 1939 shortly after he was born. His Dad built a cabin there, not on wetlands, where Bond and his wife...Play06:03Oct 3, 2022
How the 'Inherited' podcast helps us think imaginatively about the climate crisis"Inherited" is a podcast about the climate crisis as told by young people.Play10:42Sep 21, 2022
