Climate and Environment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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