Climate Cast

Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change Patricia Espinosa kicked off this final week of the COP25 climate summit in Madrid by urging delegates to lay the groundwork needed to make progress on the ...

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres upped the urgency for reducing global emissions this week. He told attendees at the COP25 climate meeting in Madrid that stalled progress means cou...

In his article this month in Science, Jonas Nahm says China — and improving trade relations with China — is critical to meeting global emissions goals. China manufactures much of the world’s low-ca...

Technology to draw existing carbon out of the atmosphere to combat climate change may seem far off, but a project that would capture a million tons of carbon a year is scheduled to open in Texas in...

The United States moved to officially withdraw from the Paris Agreement this week. The 2015 United Nations agreement commits nearly 200 countries to reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a rate that...

A United Nations report released this summer warns the world must drastically change the way it produces food in order to meet emissions reduction goals. Some Minnesota farmers have already heeded ...

Climate change often impacts disenfranchised communities more directly, and that includes indigenous communities. But these communities can also teach us a lot about how to move forward. That was t...

How will lawyers and the courts assess the cost of damage related to climate change? And who pays?

Xcel Energy says it should have no problem reaching its goal to cut carbon by 80 percent by 2030. It's that last 20 percent that will require some still-nascent technology.

As part of our Climate Curious project, MPR News asked listeners what they want to know about climate change. People wrote in with a wide breadth of questions, including what kind of trees to plant...