Climate Cast

The legal cannabis industry is booming. So are greenhouse gas emissions from growers.

This week, we’ve seen fire in California, storms in New Orleans and the Northeast and drought in Minnesota. How is climate change linked to these three separate extreme weather events?

The drought has challenged many in Minnesota. But for grape growers, it’s the silver lining to a difficult 18 months.

Climate change is affecting everything from campers’ schedules, to infrastructure needs, to the kinds of trees on the property at Camp Mishawaka in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. And it isn’t alone; a major insurer of summer camps has pulled out of the business as camps on the coasts lose property to wildfires and hurricanes.

The Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill is headed to the House, where progressive Democrats say it doesn't do enough to reduce emissions. But it does invest billions to help communities prepare for the effects of climate change.

Minnesota typically sees a few air quality alerts a year. This year, it’s seen eight.

After much debate and opposition from Republicans, Minnesota’s clean car rules were made official this week.

The weather numbers clearly show Minnesota is getting warmer and wetter overall, so why is drought the weather story of 2021 in the Upper Midwest?

Chicago has been battling extreme weather swings that have left the city dealing with flooding, wild lake and river level changes and beach erosion.

Tom Swain has had a long career, including chief of staff to a Minnesota governor and mayor of a small Minnesota town. Now 100, he still has energy to burn — and he’s putting it into climate change.