Environment High-Tide Flooding On The Rise, Especially Along The East Coast, Forecasters Warn As sea levels rise, coastal flooding that used to happen only during storms is increasingly occurring on sunny days. That has local officials reconsidering everything from zoning to police budgets. Rebecca Hersher
World France Plans To Put An 'Ecotax' On Nearly All Air Travel The new tax could bring in some $200 million that would be used to support modes of travel that pollute less — such as trains. Bill Chappell
Environment Plastic Has A Big Carbon Footprint — But That Isn't The Whole Story Plastic waste litters cities, oceans and even the air. Largely overlooked is how making plastic affects the environment. Plastic is a big contributor to global warming. So are its alternatives. Christopher Joyce
Taking The Temperature Of NPR's Climate Coverage For some, the coverage is not hot enough (and hard to find). Elizabeth Jensen
Environment Have you noticed all the cotton fluff drifting in the air? "What's up with all the white fluff in the air?" That was one listener's question we recently answered in our SoundsQs podcast. Kyle Norris
Politics Jay Inslee's 5 minutes of debate fame: Here's what he did with it Five minutes of debate time – that’s all Washington Gov. Jay Inslee got Wednesday night. Here's what he did with his fleeting moments. Amy Radil Angela King
Environment Himalayan glaciers are melting, per old school spy satellites Scientists are using old spy satellite images to measure the effects of climate change. They're finding that glaciers in the Himalayas are melting twice as fast as they were a few decades earlier. Pien Huang
Environment Washington tribes and Inslee alarmed by Canadian pipeline approval Expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Vancouver, B.C., area would boost tanker traffic in Washington waters, poses threat to orcas. John Ryan
Science Boaty McBoatface, Internet-Adored Sub, Makes Deep-Sea Discovery On Climate Change Since the delightful snafu that led to the research vessel's goofy moniker, the autonomous submarine has been off gathering deep-sea data on the effects of Antarctic winds. Merrit Kennedy
Environment Expect more heat-related deaths in Seattle, scientists say The heat this week in Seattle can be dangerous -- but nothing compared to what climate change could bring, according to a new study. Eilís O'Neill
