Harris Goes Light on Climate Policy. Green Leaders Are OK With That.
President Biden made climate change a cornerstone of his agenda. Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to detail her own plan.
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President Biden made climate change a cornerstone of his agenda. Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to detail her own plan.
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Global warming is putting the continent’s ice at risk of destruction in many forms. But one especially calamitous scenario might be a less pressing concern, a new study found.
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A chemical reaction involving emissions from cars and buildings can negate their environmental benefits. New research shows what big cities can do about it.
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The environmental group, which is being sued by the pipeline company in North Dakota, threatened to use new European rules to try to limit potential damages.
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How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points?
Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse.
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How Does Your State Make Electricity?
There’s been a big shift in how America produces power. Each state has its own story.
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We Mapped Heat in 3 U.S. Cities. Some Sidewalks Were Over 130 Degrees.
Air temperature is just one measure of how heat affects cities and people. See how high surface temperatures, which bring additional risks, can get.
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The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish
Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. But research tells a surprising story: Many islands are stable. Some have even grown.
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Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here.
What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small.
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A group of federal programs is aimed at helping America’s work force adapt to climate change.
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Can Democrats Make the Case to Climate Voters?
In another year of record-breaking temperatures, Democrats are faced with the challenge of making climate change resonate with voters.
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The Other 2024 Races with Big Climate Stakes
Outside of the presidential election, a number of down-ballot races, including Senate and state contests, could have an impact on climate policy.
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Canada’s boreal forests are burning faster than they can regrow, but controlled fires may be one of the best ways to protect local communities.
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Tropical Storm Debby Highlights the Southeast’s Climate Vulnerabilities
The region faces a confluence of factors, including the fastest sea level rise in the country, increasingly humid temperatures and extreme rainfall.
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The decision is a setback for a Biden administration strategy for protecting minority communities with numerous polluting industries nearby.
By Lisa Friedman
Decades of pumping have allowed saltwater to threaten the aquifers that supply many communities, including Long Beach and Great Neck.
By Christopher Flavelle
The Harris campaign isn’t offering details on climate policy but is framing the fight to protect the environment as one of patriotism.
By Lisa Friedman
Some 144 bird species had not been seen in at least a decade, but a project by conservation organizations proposes they all may still be hidden somewhere in the wild.
By Jim Robbins
As heat waves become more frequent and intense, researchers and activists say the lack of precise data is leading to needless fatalities.
By Kate Selig
A former Greenpeace official, he drew on his command of environmental subjects to persuade his bosses at the cable channel to cover climate issues.
By Trip Gabriel
A new study suggests that estimates of the health of the world’s fisheries may be too optimistic.
By Manuela Andreoni
The most effective ones tend to combine several emissions-cutting strategies, not a stand-alone approach, according to an examination of 1,500 policies globally.
By Austyn Gaffney
In a new book, geologist Paul Bierman recounts the moment he found astonishing evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted in the ancient past.
By Emily Anthes
At Wethersfield Estate, in upstate New York, restoring the formal gardens involves dealing with emboldened pests and pathogens — but carefully, so visitors don’t see.
By Margaret Roach
Hoping to leave a place better than you found it? Here’s what to look for when signing up for a program that combines purpose with travel.
By Elaine Glusac
Three of the ads frame Biden-Harris policies in terms of their economic, rather than environmental, benefits.
By Maggie Astor
One of the nation’s largest coal-fueled electric plants is being replaced with thousands of acres of solar panels and a test of long-duration batteries.
By Ivan Penn and Tim Gruber
Groups of Mennonites, seeking inexpensive land far from modern life, are carving out new colonies in the Amazon. They are also raising fears that they are adding to the deforestation of the vital jungle.
By Mitra Taj and Marco Garro
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In Rodanthe, N.C., seven homes have been lost to the ocean in the last four years, as rising sea levels erode shorelines and put more buildings at risk.
By Kate Selig
Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals — which leaves pets and people at risk.
By Emily Anthes
It’s a quiet force that contributes to a sameness across the country and to climate change.
By Emily Badger
Indoor cooling has transformed American life, reshaping homes, skylines and where people choose to live. As the planet warms, is that sustainable?
By Michael Barbaro, Emily Badger, Shannon M. Lin, Diana Nguyen, Michael Simon Johnson, Devon Taylor, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto, Will Reid and Alyssa Moxley
The shift occurred as the cost of wind power and other renewable energy is rapidly declining and coal is being pushed out by natural gas.
By Minho Kim
The island’s frail electrical system struggled as the storm passed on Wednesday.
By Patricia Mazzei
In corners of the internet — and in wooded, undeveloped parts of the country — young men are documenting their efforts to to live off the land.
By Jack Crosbie
After decades raising hogs in Iowa, they wanted a way out of factory farming. Their solution was a return to nature, and a lot of mushrooms.
By Cara Buckley
Children today face many more extreme weather hazards that can undermine global gains in education.
By Somini Sengupta
Old Timer, a male first photographed in 1972, was spotted last month near Alaska, enduring in the Pacific Ocean while some other humpbacks have struggled in a changing environment.
By Emily Anthes
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Ailton Krenak was a child when his family was forced to leave their land in Brazil. Now, as a writer, he advocates for a path forward that looks to nature and inherited wisdom.
By Manuela Andreoni
In the wake of a drought that hampered shipping, the Panama Canal’s overseers are eager to expand water storage. Climate change leaves them no choice.
By Peter S. Goodman and Federico Rios
Extreme rainfall made 10 percent heavier by human-caused climate change triggered landslides that killed hundreds, according to a new study.
By Austyn Gaffney
Economic, climate and technology woes are weighing on young adults, a report finds. It recommends overhauling how we approach mental health care.
By Christina Caron
In a conversation on X, Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk spoke for a bit about climate change. Here’s what they got wrong and what they got right.
By Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong
The delicate balance of one of the planet’s largest natural systems for storing carbon depends on the humble black spruce tree.
By Manuela Andreoni, Bryan Denton and Veronica Penney
A new study shows how deadly warming can be, and how behavioral and social changes can reduce mortality.
By Austyn Gaffney
We’ve got the dirt on what the devices actually do, and what they don’t.
By Elizabeth Anne Brown
Horses, bulls and birds of all types live among the pink marshes of the Camargue, a rugged landscape shaped by the relentless push and pull of sea and river.
By Alexis Steinman
To supply water for a number of needs, from tourism to agriculture, the country and other dry nations are increasingly relying on desalination plants that convert seawater into fresh water.
By Stanley Reed and Rachel Chaundler
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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
An Australian start-up is hoping fungi can pull carbon dioxide from the air and stash it underground. It’s one of several ventures trying to deploy the superpowers of soil to slow global warming.
By Somini Sengupta and Matthew Abbott
Tropical Storm Debby brought intense rainfall and flooding threats to North Carolina this week, highlighting the vulnerability of hog lagoons and wastewater treatment plants.
By Austyn Gaffney
The agency’s new forecast predicts that as many as 24 named tropical storms could form between June 1 and Nov. 30.
By Austyn Gaffney
Households claimed more than $8 billion in climate-friendly tax credits last year, according to new data. Here’s who benefited and where.
By Nadja Popovich
Last month was slightly less hot than the record-breaking July 2023, but the year is still likely to be the hottest ever, according to European climate scientists.
By Austyn Gaffney
The rapidly spreading fire has consumed over 427,000 acres since it started burning in late July.
By Kate Selig and Soumya Karlamangla
Many struggled to find housing and work after the wildfire destroyed the seaside town on Maui last year. But they have faced new hardships.
By Tim Arango, Ana Facio-Krajcer and Jill Cowan
Natural gas has traded at negative prices for weeks at a time in West Texas, where pipelines often lack the capacity to get the fuel to places that need it.
By Rebecca F. Elliott
The suspension of congestion pricing has put off critically needed repairs to New York City’s transit network. Experts say the system hangs by a thread.
By Ana Ley
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The heating of the planet is increasing the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. That helps to load hurricanes and other storms with more water.
By Raymond Zhong
A new study found that temperatures in the Coral Sea have reached their highest levels in at least four centuries.
By Catrin Einhorn
Minnesota’s governor, Vice President Harris’s new running mate, has put forth one of the most ambitious climate agendas in the country.
By Manuela Andreoni
Tropical Storm Debby was only briefly a Category 1 hurricane. But a rating can never fully capture how destructive a storm can be.
By Raymond Zhong
The herbicide, used widely on crops including broccoli and onions, can cause low birth weight and impaired brain development, regulators said.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Kamala Harris’s V.P. pick, known for his folksy persona and rural Midwestern roots, has elevated the issue of climate change in his state.
By Coral Davenport
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