Why a 17-year-old is a better economist than Steve Mnuchin.
Builders will be forced to take climate change, including rising sea levels, into account to win government approval for projects.
The madness of prohibiting solar panels on the rooftops of historic buildings illustrates how preservation culture has run amok.
Australia is going up in flames, and its government calls for resilience while planning for more coal mines.
The authorities had threatened a yearslong prison sentence for Philip Jacobson, who was jailed for three days. He is likely to be deported soon, but his movements remain restricted.
For wealthy Davos men and women, as well as people from less rarefied air, targeted investing is one way to force change on carbon-emitting companies.
Ms. Thunberg, who has been rebuking world leaders for inaction on climate change, said she was not deterred by critics who called her concerns overblown.
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
At the anti-capitalist capitalist event, radical sentiments erupt in unexpected places.
In Davos, business leaders were newly vocal about the danger, though they gave few details about how they would reform their practices.
Like other central banks, the E.C.B., which met on Thursday, is scrambling to prepare for what a report warns could be a coming economic upheaval.
The Trump administration has finished a new rule that rolls back environmental controls on many wetlands and intermittent streams, delivering a win to rural landowners.
La pesca excesiva y la construcción de presas han puesto en peligro inminente a la megafauna de ríos y lagos del mundo. Pero muchas especies aún pueden salvarse.
Also this week, strange scenes at the Davos economic forum
The National Organization for Women says ratification is about the law and basic human rights. Also: Big Tech and a campus divide; hydropower’s potential.
Scroll through the Facebook page of Craig Kelly, a conservative politician, and you’ll see why the country has not taken strong action on global warming.
The editor, Philip Jacobson, who works for the environmental website Mongabay, was detained last month after attending a public meeting on Borneo island. He was traveling on a business visa.
President Trump and Greta Thunberg dominated the first full day of the annual gathering of the rich and powerful in the Swiss Alps.
But will yet another cozy gathering in the Alps fix it?
The Swedish climate activist spoke Tuesday afternoon at an event hosted by The New York Times and the World Economic Forum.
More than 16 million acres have gone up in flames. And it has happened in populated areas, unlike most of the world’s other blazes of this scale.
The activist punched a hole in the promises emerging from a forum of the global political and business elite at Davos, telling the leaders to stop investing in fossil fuels immediately.
President Trump made his first appearance on the international stage since the House sent impeachment articles to the Senate, on the day his trial is set to begin in earnest.
Overharvesting and habitat loss endanger most of the world’s freshwater “megafauna.” But many species may yet be saved.
The poor air quality is making equipment harder to operate, and some workers have had to take leave to fight fires. The irony was not lost on many in Australia.
The poor air quality is making equipment harder to operate, and some workers have had to take leave to fight fires. The irony was not lost on many in Australia.
A Trump administration program to help states prepare for natural disasters has become a window into the tortured political language of talking about climate change.
Thousands of dams across New York, many abandoned, are blocking fish migrations. A movement to remove them is growing.
As people around the world respond to the fire crisis, organizations find themselves trying to efficiently distribute tens of millions of dollars.
Two of three judges on the panel said that climate change was an issue for lawmakers, not the courts.
A six-mile-long barrier would help protect the city from floodwaters during fierce storms like Sandy, but critics say rising seas make the option inadequate.
Bad news used to spook the markets. Now it seems to lift them. How weird is that?
Bad news used to spook the markets. Now it seems to lift them. How weird is that?
The beach town of Mallacoota is mythologized in my family as the place we returned to every summer. I visited again after it was ravaged by fire, to find devastation, resilience and a warning about climate change.
The 18-year time frame shows how costly and politically complicated it is to leave the world's dirtiest fossil fuel in the ground.
Twin calamities marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth’s great extinctions.
La víspera de Año Nuevo, el mundo vio a la gente reunirse en la costa de Mallacoota para protegerse del fuego. La ciudad ahora raciona el combustible y depende de la ayuda de los militares.
Also this week, the latest global temperature reports.
Last year was only a fraction of a degree cooler than 2016, the warmest year on record.
Mallacoota, where people huddled on the shore for safety on New Year’s Eve, is rationing fuel and relying on the military for help.
In his influential annual letter to chief executives, Mr. Fink said his firm would avoid investments in companies that “present a high sustainability-related risk.”
En Nepal y en muchos otros países, como Bolivia e India, las empresas privadas de camiones cisterna se han beneficiado de la escasez de agua.
A new analysis found 2019 was the hottest for the world’s oceans. The five hottest years have also been in the past five years.
As firefighters battle flames across the country, Australia’s prime minister is fighting to keep climate change out of the conversation.
Here are some easy ways to live more gently on the earth. The key word here is “easy.”
In an interview with the local media, Prime Minister Scott Morrison expressed regret but reiterated that economic concerns would still play a key role in climate policies.
Chase Bank, Wells Fargo, Citibank and Bank of America are the worst offenders.
In Nepal and many other countries, private tanker operators profit from growing water scarcity.
Climate and environmental activists are growing impatient with a Democratic-led House that they view as not doing enough to enact their agenda.
His proposal would threaten scrutiny of big projects that could put communities and the environment at risk.
Here’s a five-step plan to deal with the stress and become part of the solution.
Our reporters have been on the ground documenting the disaster as it unfolded, whether interviewing evacuees or following firefighters.
Our reporters have been on the ground documenting the disaster as it unfolded, whether interviewing evacuees or following firefighters.
The political reaction is scarier than the fires.
The White House, hoping to speed infrastructure projects like pipelines, will formally introduce changes to a half century-old landmark environmental law.
The golf course in Jersey City, N.J., says it needs the land to compete for tournaments. A birder counters, “It’s really just an obscenity.”
The golf course in Jersey City, N.J., says it needs the land to compete for tournaments. A birder counters, “It’s really just an obscenity.”
The move by the group of young climate activists was another sign that left-wing advocacy organizations have increasingly coalesced around the Vermont senator’s candidacy.
There are so many places in the world, and only 52 spots. How do we choose? (Do you know all the synonyms for “argue”?)
It’s never too late to take action aimed at protecting our planet.
Se calcula que millones de animales, muchos de los cuales no se encuentran en ningún otro continente, pueden haber perecido; los australianos cuidan a los sobrevivientes.
Also this week, wildfires in Australia
2019 was a very hot year, with global average temperatures the second highest on record,by less than one-tenth of a degree Fahrenheit behind 2016.
Climate change, political malpractice and what the United States might learn.
A marine lab built to withstand hurricanes faces a slower menace: climate change. Problems arising wherever science operates at the shifting border of soil and sea.
Millions of animals, many found on no other continent, may have perished, and Australians are taking care of survivors.
The E.P.A. opened an effort to cut pollution from trucks, an anomaly for an administration known for regulatory rollbacks but a move that would also pre-empt state rules.
Seeking to do their part to avert climate change, dozens of cities are exploring ways to limit natural gas heating in new homes. One city may also require existing homeowners to make a switch.
The country is venting frustration with Prime Minister Scott Morrison over what many view as a nonchalant response to the disastrous blazes and his unwavering dismissal of climate change.
The administration will propose that federal agencies be allowed to disregard climate change when assessing the environmental effects of major projects.
Australians in major cities, not threatened by flames, are still experiencing this disastrous fire season in their lungs.
Australians in major cities, not threatened by flames, are still experiencing this disastrous fire season in their lungs.
As record fires rage, the country’s leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom.
Australia's fire season is one of the worst on record. We mapped the flames.
We’re already in the early stages of climate crisis.
Here are some strategies for a hard conversation.
Also this week, holiday fireworks in Iceland and beyond
Un vistazo a 15 años de intentos por limpiar el río más contaminado de México revela que el país no cuenta con los medios ni las leyes para preservar el medio ambiente.
Bush fire season is nothing new to Australians, but this summer has been calamitous — and it’s far from over.
The Trump administration staffed an E.P.A. advisory panel with its choice of scientists, but they concluded that three significant regulatory rollbacks broke with established science.
Despair not. What’s coming in the next few years might be a lot better than you expect.
The German chancellor, in her 15th such address, expressed optimism about the coming decade despite large challenges ahead.
A look at 15 years of attempts to clean up Mexico’s most polluted waterway revealed that the country has neither the means nor the laws to preserve its environment.
One large mining company is trying to shut illegal operations, which use mercury. The small-scale miners say there’s no other way to earn a living.