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NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Rod West, group president of Entergy utility operations, which provides power to New Orleans and throughout Louisiana. He discusses the city's power outages.

Recovery is slow going in Louisiana after Hurricane Ida stormed ashore on Sunday. Rescue crews are still trying to get into hard hit areas as residents cope with the prospect of no power for weeks.

There has been a fivefold increase in the number of documented weather-related disasters in the last 50 years, driven in large part by climate change, a U.N. agency says.

The bottom has dropped out of the steelhead population this year, and the fish’s mysterious ocean life is making it harder to know why.

The largest climate investment in state history includes major investments in fire prevention, electric vehicles and drought mitigation.

The massive storm hit near the heart of Gulf oil production and refining, which will affect prices for a few weeks. But nobody expects the kind of price spike the U.S. saw after Hurricane Katrina.

More containment on the fire near Lake Tahoe means that some residents have been able to return, but a rash of new "suspicious" fires erupted over Labor Day weekend, officials say.

Before founding the country’s first street dance theater company, Harris was a popper in the Philadelphia battle scene, toured with top rap artists, and hosted a TV show.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Serena Fitka, executive director of the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, about this year's dramatic scarcity of Yukon River salmon and its effect on communities.

For some people attending the UN's COP26 conference in Scotland, climate change is not a future threat — they are seeing its impact on their homelands now.