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A butterfly perches on a lavender plant at Maple Lawn Farms in York County on Sept. 20, 2022. Incorporating flowers that attract pollinators to a farm is one example of a climate-smart practice.
October 4, 2023 | 1:29 PM

Any job can be a climate solutions job: Ask this teacher, electrician or beauty CEO

By A Martínez, Ally Schweitzer, Lisa Weiner, Arielle Retting | NPR
January 10, 2023 | 10:03 AM

Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms

By Rebecca Hersher/NPR
PHOENIX, AZ - JUNE 20: A pedestrian uses an umbrella to get some relief from the sun as she walks past a sign displaying the temperature on June 20, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. Record temperatures of 118 to 120 degrees were expected on Tuesday for the Phoenix-metro area.
December 18, 2020 | 8:04 AM

2020 may be the hottest year on record. Here’s the damage it did

2020 is just two-hundredths of a degree cooler than 2016, the hottest year ever recorded. The Earth is nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer now than it was in the 20th century, and greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are still rising.
By Rebecca Hersher, Lauren Sommer/NPR