Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot
In some fast-growing Sun Belt cites, “the overnight lows kind of sneak up on you.”
By Ronda Kaysen and Aatish Bhatia
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In some fast-growing Sun Belt cites, “the overnight lows kind of sneak up on you.”
By Ronda Kaysen and Aatish Bhatia
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By Raymond Zhong
TV shows, movies, books, art exhibits and pop music about our rapidly warming planet.
By David Gelles and Manuela Andreoni
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By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich
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By Nadja Popovich
Emissions from electricity and transportation are projected to fall over time, a new report finds, but industry remains a major climate challenge.
By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich
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By Nadja Popovich
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By Nadja Popovich
As the planet has warmed, summer temperatures have shifted toward more extreme heat.
By Nadja Popovich and Adam Pearce
The United States is pivoting away from fossil fuels and toward wind, solar and other renewable energy, even in areas dominated by the oil and gas industries.
By David Gelles, Brad Plumer, Jim Tankersley, Jack Ewing, Leo Dominguez and Nadja Popovich
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By Jack Ewing, Clifford Krauss, Lisa Friedman, Leo Dominguez and Nadja Popovich
Resistance to wind and solar projects from environmentalists is among an array of impediments to widespread conversion to renewables.
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By Nadja Popovich
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By Nadja Popovich
The current system makes it hard to build the long-distance power lines needed to transport wind and solar nationwide.
By Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer
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The record is credited by many scientists as the most important evidence that the climate is changing because of human activity.
By Elena Shao
Earth has reached 8 billion inhabitants. But more people doesn’t have to mean more greenhouse gas emissions.
By Somini Sengupta
New data reveals progress toward climate goals but also major challenges ahead.
By Max Bearak and Nadja Popovich
Sea surface temperature data shows how warm ocean water near Florida fueled the storm to become one of the most powerful to strike the United States in the past decade.
By Elena Shao, Nadja Popovich and Mira Rojanasakul
The number of homes in fire-prone parts of the West soared from 10 million in 1990 to 16 million today, a big reason wildfires are causing more destruction.
By Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer
The bill’s big tax incentives for low-carbon technologies could allow the country to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of this decade.
By Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer
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By Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer
The explosive start reflects the convergence of relentless winds and long-term trends like drought and extreme heat — an ominous sign for the rest of the American West.
By Tim Wallace and Nadja Popovich
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By Nadja Popovich
New data was used to calculate fire risk to residential and other properties. The threats are rising.
By Christopher Flavelle and Nadja Popovich
The city famous for its bike lanes is struggling to cut car pollution. Now Portland faces a major battle over whether to keep expanding highways.
By Brad Plumer, Nadja Popovich and Chona Kasinger
A new study shows how redlining, a Depression-era housing policy, contributed to inequalities that persist decades later in U.S. cities.
By Raymond Zhong and Nadja Popovich
New maps provide a valuable tool to officials and scientists scrambling to protect threatened species.
By Catrin Einhorn and Nadja Popovich
If the bill dies, it could prove extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the United States to meet its climate targets.
By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich
Generations of New Orleans residents have dreamed of the day when the Claiborne Expressway might be removed. President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package could eventually make that possible.
By Audra D. S. Burch
The world’s wealthiest nations are disproportionately responsible for global warming. A sticking point at this year’s climate summit: Should they pay for the damage?
By Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer
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By Brad Plumer, Nadja Popovich and Blacki Migliozzi
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By Brad Plumer, Blacki Migliozzi and Nadja Popovich
The newest plans by countries to fight climate change still fall short of what scientists say is necessary. Here’s what the 10 biggest emitters have promised.
By Brad Plumer, Blacki Migliozzi and Nadja Popovich
Nations have started making progress on climate change. But we’re still on track for dangerous warming unless those efforts accelerate drastically.
By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich
The largest blaze of 2021 fueled its own firestorms, again and again. The New York Times reconstructed a 3-D model to let you get up close.
By Nadja Popovich, Noah Pisner, Nick Bartzokas, Evan Grothjan, Daniel Mangosing, Karthik Patanjali and Scott Reinhard
Downpours caused deadly floods in Tennessee this weekend. Yet California and much of the West remained deep in drought.
By Nadja Popovich and Aatish Bhatia
The country, like most of the world, is becoming both drier and wetter in the era of climate change. It depends where you live.
By Aatish Bhatia and Nadja Popovich
“Millions of home and property owners have had no way of knowing the significant risk they face,” one analyst said.
By Christopher Flavelle, Denise Lu, Veronica Penney, Nadja Popovich and John Schwartz
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By Nadja Popovich and Winston Choi-Schagrin
As another heat wave builds in the U.S. Northwest, a New York Times analysis has found that recent scorching temperatures in the area may have been more lethal than officially reported.
By Nadja Popovich and Winston Choi-Schagrin
Smoke from blazes in the Western United States and Canada stretched across North America this week.
By Nadja Popovich and Josh Katz
Smoke from wildfires in the Western United States and Canada covered skies in a thick haze on Tuesday and triggered air quality alerts from Toronto to Philadelphia.
By Nadja Popovich and Josh Katz
Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.
By Nadja Popovich
Highways radically reshaped cities, destroying dense downtown neighborhoods. Now, some cities are starting to take them down.
By Nadja Popovich, Josh Williams and Denise Lu
Researchers uncovered stark disparities between white people and minorities across thousands of categories of pollution, including trucks, industry, agriculture and even restaurants.
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Nadja Popovich
President Biden’s new pledge to cut emissions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 is one of the more aggressive near-term targets among advanced economies.
By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich
The president’s infrastructure plan tries to break from the past by shifting spending away from new roads and toward public transit. It won’t be easy.
By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich
A new car sold today can last a decade or two before retiring. This “fleet turnover” poses a major challenge for climate policy.
By Brad Plumer, Nadja Popovich and Blacki Migliozzi
Maps show where frigid temperatures led to power outages, many in places unaccustomed to such severe cold.
By Nadja Popovich, Tim Wallace, Veronica Penney and Scott Reinhard
The administration has pledged to make agriculture a cornerstone of its plan to fight warming, but also to tackle a legacy of discrimination that has pushed Black farmers off the land.
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Nadja Popovich
Data issued Thursday by NASA confirmed that 2020 has effectively tied the hottest year on record. That means the last seven years have been the warmest since the beginning of modern record-keeping.
By Henry Fountain, Blacki Migliozzi and Nadja Popovich