A Warmer World

$20 billion in grants and loans will be forthcoming from the Biden Administration. It's hoped this will attract private investment too.

Regions that depend on it are having to look to other sources of energy — which can cost more.

Climate risk and inflation are making insurance harder to find and mortgages harder to afford.

Farmers are catching less than half of their normal haul. Restaurants are hiking prices for the tiny, lobster-like crustacean, which is threatening neighborhood traditions of gathering around a crawfish boil.

The rules are softer than those initially proposed.

Many fewer vessels now traverse the canal daily. The water deficit is a global phenomenon that has been linked to climate change.

Emissions from transportation, on the other hand, were up.

Federal firefighters make as little as $15 an hour. A permanent boost has bipartisan support, but it’s tied up in Congress' budget fight.

As climate change makes winter snowfall uncertain, selling lift tickets gets trickier — especially at smaller, locally owned resorts.

In California, a fight is brewing over whether to build middle-class homes or restore wetlands that could mitigate flood risk.