Youth Group Asks Supreme Court to Revive a Landmark Climate Lawsuit
The case argues the government violated young people’s constitutional rights by failing to curb the use of fossil fuels. A lower court had thrown it out.
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The case argues the government violated young people’s constitutional rights by failing to curb the use of fossil fuels. A lower court had thrown it out.
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A new federal database helps users determine the likelihood of their community experiencing a landslide.
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The courts have become one of the most important battlegrounds in the fight over planet-warming emissions. Here are prominent cases to watch.
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Vice President Kamala Harris nodded to the urgency of climate change but also highlighted the country’s record levels of oil and gas production.
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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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Is Inequality the Key to the Climate Change Debate?
In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality.
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5 Climate Questions for the Candidates Ahead of the Presidential Debate
Here’s what the Times climate team would ask Harris and Trump about climate change, energy policy and the environment.
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The Electric Vehicle Future Is Coming. Just a Little More Slowly.
Though large automakers are delaying their plans to introduce new all-electric models, the E.V. industry is still the future, experts say.
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A Heat Pump Can Cut Your Emissions. But Read This Before You Switch.
A Times climate reporter recounts his journey to switch his home’s HVAC system to a climate-friendly heat pump.
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Climate Change Comes to the Tetons
In one of North America’s most stunning mountain ranges, melting glaciers and warmer temperatures are raising fears of ecological tipping points.
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General Motors and the South Korean automaker say they will collaborate on new vehicles, buying parts and clean energy technologies.
By Neal E. Boudette
Accidents involving blades made by GE Vernova have delayed projects off the coasts of Massachusetts and England and could imperil climate goals.
By Stanley Reed and Ivan Penn
Die-hard fans of the season say the best part starts after Labor Day.
By Steven Kurutz and Sophie Park
The climbers from Italy and South Korea were found on Tuesday after they went missing three days earlier during a period of bad weather on the peak.
By Amanda Holpuch
The British government and Tata of India said they would invest 1.25 billion pounds in a plan to convert the steel mill at Port Talbot in Wales to an electric furnace.
By Stanley Reed
The Japanese city is famous for its temples and gardens, but it is laced with waterways that can offer a different, and no less enchanting, view.
By Patrick Scott
The agency said Keurig, in its financial filings, had claimed its pods could be “effectively recycled” but didn’t note that two big recycling companies wouldn’t accept them.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
The state footed a big bill for the owner of a hunting retreat to knock down trees on his and nearby properties. He made big environmental promises, but the science was lacking.
By Leia Larsen
Here’s what Vice President Harris and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.
By Maggie Astor
As Colombia prepares to host a global biodiversity summit, killings of environmental defenders in the country rose again last year, according to a new report.
By Manuela Andreoni
While the Line fire burns in Southern California, what can we learn from how a changing climate has affected an expanding fire season?
By Austyn Gaffney
Many Southern Californians have moved to San Bernardino County for more affordable homes and calmer lifestyles, but some also face disaster risks.
By Soumya Karlamangla, Vik Jolly and Isabelle Taft
The suds that go down the drain can be harmful to wildlife. We’ve got tips on how to clean clothes and support nature.
By Elizabeth Anne Brown
The Persian Gulf nation has instituted rolling blackouts to cope with surging summer electricity demand, stirring frustration among citizens.
By Yasmena Almulla and Vivian Nereim
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An African penguin who left many offspring in his long life, he belonged to the largest colony of the aquatic bird species in North America, according to the zoo.
By Hank Sanders
After two devastating storms hit Stonington in January, plans are multiplying to raise and fortify wharves, roads and buildings. But will that be enough?
By Jenna Russell and Tristan Spinski
A small team in a remote corner of Colombia is surveying every tree in an effort to better understand how much planet-warming carbon the Amazon actually stores.
By Max Bearak and Federico Rios
Pope Francis is visiting Papua New Guinea, which has been exploited for its natural resources and is imperiled by rising sea levels.
By Emma Bubola
On a family trip in Montana, a father shares a tradition with his two sons even as climate change threatens the certainty of the rivers he grew up running.
By Reif Larsen
The excessive heat worldwide suggests the full year will also be a record-breaker, according to Copernicus, the E.U. agency that tracks global warming.
By Austyn Gaffney
An engineer and influential environmentalist in New York, he fought for bus lanes, bridge tolls and limits on parking and against more highways, as in the aborted Westway plan.
By Sam Roberts
Experts believe the outcome of the race for the White House could determine how ambitious China’s climate efforts will be.
By Lisa Friedman
Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant deaths.
By Catrin Einhorn
The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to nurture wildlife habitat have been spotty.
By Catrin Einhorn
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An intermission in hurricanes across the Atlantic has people wondering where the predicted storms are.
By Judson Jones
More tourists are eager to visit vanishing glaciers and ice caves, but warming is also making the sites unstable.
By Austyn Gaffney
Millions of people still recovering from the devastation of 2022 are bracing for the possibility of losing what they’ve rebuilt.
By Zia ur-Rehman and Insiya Syed
The successful outcome of the government auction for renewable energy projects may bolster a wind industry battered by rising costs.
By Stanley Reed
John Podesta is expected to push for China to set more ambitious greenhouse gas targets.
By Lisa Friedman
Every year, as thousands of humpbacks return to their breeding grounds near a protected bay, locals gather on the beach to greet them with stories, dancing and music.
By Jennie Erin Smith
Extreme heat and flooding are accelerating the deterioration of bridges, engineers say, posing a quiet but growing threat.
By Coral Davenport
Overwhelmed destinations made high-season visitors the targets of a major tourism backlash. Heat waves and fires only added to the pressure.
By Ceylan Yeğinsu
Some vegetables cost more than they have in five years. Top Chinese officials have made a point of showing that they’re doing something about it.
By Tiffany May and Claire Fu
The Times dug into the widespread use of sewage sludge as fertilizer, which is sometimes heavily contaminated by “forever chemicals.”
By Hiroko Tabuchi
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Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. Scientists say it can contain high levels of the toxic substance.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
The suit challenges a measure that prohibits state entities like retirement funds from doing business with firms that “boycott energy companies.”
By Karen Zraick
Despite war in the Middle East and political turmoil in Libya, investors are focusing on what look like ample global supplies.
By Stanley Reed
Wind power has a waste problem that has been difficult to solve. Turbine blades made from a new plant-based material could make them recyclable.
By Minho Kim
In Wisconsin, Tim Walz’s regular-guy image, a selling point for the Democratic ticket, is up against skeptics who find Donald J. Trump’s politics more relatable.
By Dionne Searcey
How some high-tech entrepreneurs are trying to use new forms of technology to solve the problem of mega-wildfires in the age of climate change.
By Tim Fernholz and Ian C. Bates
The plan, which comes less than a year after the wolves were released in the area, is potentially a setback for the state’s ambitious reintroduction program, experts say.
By Aimee Ortiz
The new guidelines from the Agriculture Department encourage third-party assessments of environment-related claims, which have come under fire.
By Somini Sengupta
Sparrow weavers in Africa appear to learn distinct building styles that reflect group traditions, research shows. It raises intriguing questions about avian intelligence.
By Rebecca Dzombak
The mass deaths of the fish were most likely caused by climate change. The vacation area and its businesses have been suffering since.
By Niki Kitsantonis
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Tyler Whitley works with a group that helps farmers leave industrialized livestock agriculture, and says consumers can play a role.
By Cara Buckley
A ruling by the Constitutional Court declared the nation’s current measures insufficient and a violation of the rights of future generations.
By Choe Sang-Hun
The blazes produced more planet-warming carbon than almost any country, researchers found. That could upend key calculations on the pace of global warming.
By Manuela Andreoni
The finding comes as a late-August heat wave bears down on a significant part of the country.
By Austyn Gaffney
Kennedy’s former co-workers in the environmental movement aren’t surprised that he endorsed Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax.”
By Manuela Andreoni
As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards.
By Lisa Friedman
Royal Caribbean and other companies are aggressively building over-the-top ships. “Today’s cruisezillas make the Titanic look like a small fishing boat,” noted one sustainability specialist.
By Ceylan Yeğinsu
Coldplay and Billie Eilish have tried to drive down carbon emissions while touring, but the British band Massive Attack has tried to take the efforts even further.
By Alex Marshall
Elon Musk’s plan to open Tesla’s charging network is proceeding slowly. Nobody is entirely sure why, or when that might change.
By Jack Ewing
In Brazil, wildfires have roared across the Pantanal, a maze of rivers, forests and marshlands that sprawl over an area 20 times the size of the Everglades.
By Ana Ionova
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Repsol figures that there is still life in vehicle fuels as long as they can be portrayed as low carbon.
By Stanley Reed
The disaster killed one person and injured three in the town. Researchers said heavy rains preceding the disaster may have played a role.
By Austyn Gaffney
As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth’s surface.
By Brad Plumer
The JOIDES Resolution, which for decades was key to advancing the understanding of the Earth and its innards, concluded what could be its final scientific expedition.
By Maya Wei-Haas
It’s a notorious energy hog. But artificial intelligence can also foster innovation and discovery, and it could speed the global transition to cleaner power.
By Steve Lohr
Mexico’s next leader, Claudia Sheinbaum, is a climate scientist who has signaled a clean energy pivot. But a huge wager on fossil fuels by her political mentor stands in her way.
By Simon Romero
The tennis tournament, like the rest of New York City, is adapting to climate change.
By Hilary Howard
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
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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 group of federal programs is aimed at helping America’s work force adapt to climate change.
By Austyn Gaffney
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
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.
By Raymond Zhong
President Biden made climate change a cornerstone of his agenda. Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to detail her own plan.
By Lisa Friedman
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
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In another year of record-breaking temperatures, Democrats are faced with the challenge of making climate change resonate with voters.
By David Gelles
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.
By Karen Zraick
A chemical reaction involving emissions from cars and buildings can negate their environmental benefits. New research shows what big cities can do about it.
By Austyn Gaffney
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
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
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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
Outside of the presidential election, a number of down-ballot races, including Senate and state contests, could have an impact on climate policy.
By David Gelles
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
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