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As the East Coast hunkers down for the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy, NPR Books dug back into the archives to find stories about keeping safe — and sane — when disaster strikes.

President Obama pulled out a surprise in his inaugural address on Monday. After barely mentioning climate change in his campaign, he put it on his short list of priorities for his second term.

Climate scientists and weather researchers gather in San Diego Tuesday to talk about the possibility of a fourth year of drought.

An ambitious goal to reduce the use of fossil fuels looks to algae as a way to power the fleet.

Carl DeMaio and Scott Peters, the candidates running for the 52nd Congressional District seat, answered 10 questions posed by KPBS.

Texas officials are crying foul over the decision by a binational commission to release water from the Rio Grande to Mexico.

The four-state advocacy campaign, Nuestro Rio, is using music to mobilize Latinos around water conservation in the Southwest.

San Diego County seems to be getting a lot of rain this year, but residents are still urged to conserve. We discuss what rainfall and snow pack numbers mean, how they compare to previous years and what this means for drought conditions in the region.

The last few years have been especially tough in South Florida for wading birds such as egrets, herons, ibises and wood storks that feed and nest in the region's wetlands.

Aid groups say they are making progress in delivering food to Somalia. But the need is critical and growing as the death toll continues to mount.