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Why home insurance is unaffordable, even in places without wildfires or hurricanes

Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes.
- Rebecca Hersher
It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.

Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.
- Rebecca Hersher
Inside the push to remove barbed wire in the West

Barbed wire can kill, injure or block migrating wildlife.
States renegotiate their share of the Colorado River without federal intervention

The Trump administration is using different tactics than his predecessor to get the states that share the Colorado River to agree on how to do it in a climate-changed world.
A visit to the pristine Western Arctic, which faces gas and oil drilling

Lynda Mapes, the former Seattle Times environment reporter, made a trip recently to the Western Arctic, a vast region in the northernmost part of North America. It’s an area that the Trump administration plans to open for oil and gas drilling. Mapes talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about what she experienced on that trip.
- Kim Malcolm
States renegotiate their share of the Colorado River without federal intervention

The Trump administration is using different tactics that his predecessor to get the states the share the Colorado river to agree how to do it in a climate changed world.
- Alex Hager
See no emissions? State attorneys say Trump plan to stop tracking climate pollution is illegal

A coalition of 15 states including Washington and Oregon says a Trump administration proposal to turn a blind eye to greenhouse gas pollution is illegal.
- John Ryan
Why do only some leaves turn red in the fall? Scientists can't agree on an answer

The red pigments in some fall leaves have proven to be a puzzle for researchers who debate why leaves bother to go red.
- Nell Greenfieldboyce
Endangered orcas return to Puget Sound without newborn J64, presumed dead

Almost the entire population of southern resident killer whales gathered in central Puget Sound on Sunday, but the newest member of J Pod, a newborn known as J64, was not among them.
- John Ryan
Climate change is harming people’s health worldwide, report finds

An international group of researchers has released its annual report on climate change and human health. Many of the risks they track, like extreme heat danger and the rise of infectious diseases, are moving in the wrong direction.

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