John Morales, who has forecast weather for decades, went viral after choking up on air while discussing Hurricane Milton.
In her last newsletter for the Times, a Climate Forward reporter reflects on the intertwined problems of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Milton grew into a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day as it crossed warm oceans across the Gulf of Mexico.
New rules will require utilities to replace lead pipes nationwide. That will take time, but you can protect yourself by taking these steps.
Readers reflect on the devastation, the recovery and climate havens. Also: An ex-hostage’s plea; the women who accuse Donald Trump; a Trump rally.
Fewer than 10 percent of the agency’s disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities.
A medida que una sequía seca tramos del río Amazonas, Brasil recurre al dragado para tratar de mantener el flujo de alimentos, medicinas y personas a lo largo de la superautopista acuática.
The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.
Hurricane Helene has reminded us. Climate change has stacked the deck against all of us.
What it’s like to get the neglected disease.
They’re almost everywhere. And they’re bad. But there are some things you can do to avoid them.
We need to act as a single unified force to find ways to strike a lasting balance with our natural world.
As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway.
Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted from one of the world’s most polluting industries.
Los expertos ofrecen varias recomendaciones para que el proceso de recuperación sea exitoso. Esto es lo que hay que hacer y lo que hay que evitar.
After Helene, it may be time to rethink how to communicate the risks posed by storms, especially extreme rain.
Experts offered plenty of advice about ways to make the disaster-recovery process work. Here’s what to do and what to avoid.
City officials have refused to provide estimates of when the devastated water system in Asheville, N.C., will be back in operation.
Republican-led states and industry groups argued that the Environmental Protection Agency had moved too fast and imposed onerous regulations.
A severe overnight rainstorm in the Balkans left several towns and villages flooded. Record summer temperatures had caused a drought that hampered the absorption of floodwaters.
Who was behind a national campaign to ban geoengineering? One reporter went down a few rabbit holes to find out.
In a new weekly feature of our Climate Forward newsletter, we’re covering the vast amount of investment, ingenuity and scientific expertise that are going toward stopping climate change.
Readers respond to the special counsel Jack Smith’s filing. Also: The pain of IUD insertions; food and the environment; A.I. and the patient.
The National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C., sweep together data from around the world to help track Earth’s warming.
Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.
El objetivo del Tropical Forests Forever Facility es pagar a los países con bajos índices de deforestación 4 dólares por cada hectárea de selva en pie que pueda identificarse mediante imágenes satelitales cada año.
Brazil is proposing a fund that would pay countries to protect tropical forests that are crucial to curbing climate change. It would generate returns, too.
Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from cropland, and help birds and bees.
Tim Walz said climate change is real, but boasted about high U.S. levels of oil and gas production. JD Vance called climate change “weird science.”
Extreme climate was supposed to shock us into action. What happened?
In response to concerns over climate change and plummeting biodiversity, a shift is afoot in the city’s parks. Manicured is out; rugged is in.
As storms intensify, so do the legal clashes with insurers, aid agencies and others over compensation, rebuilding and even scams.
Research on hundreds of tropical storms finds that mortality keeps rising for more than a decade afterward, for reasons you might not expect.
The exodus of the young means high-risk towns could enter a population death spiral.
As Hurricane Helene made climate change an early focus of the vice-presidential debate, the running mates quickly demonstrated the stark differences between the parties on the issue.
The worst damage from Hurricane Helene came in areas that were expected to be relatively immune to the effects of climate change.
Damage went beyond downed power lines. Hundreds of substations went out after the storm. Getting them back online is difficult.
Los huracanes suelen debilitarse en tierra. Pero si el suelo ya está húmedo por lluvias anteriores, los ciclones pueden recibir un impulso adicional.
The legislation, which would weaken federal environmental reviews for certain semiconductor manufacturing projects, has divided Democrats.
Hurricanes typically weaken over land. But if the ground is already wet from earlier rains, storms can receive an extra jolt that keeps them churning.
The Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last surviving coal-burning power station in a country that birthed the Industrial Revolution and fed it with coal.
Some leaders insist that the global clean energy transition will happen with or without the United States.
As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the risk of hazards like hurricanes, floods, wildfires and dangerous heat.
No one has ever restarted an American nuclear reactor that was seemingly closed for good. But with electricity demand spiking, interest is growing.
Miners aim to meet a growing demand for emissions-free energy, though a failure to clean up old sites haunts the industry.
Few in Britain will mourn the passing of coal, but it’s hard not to feel a little nervous about what, at its heart, is an experiment, one fraught with danger.
The city has famously delicious drinking water. Forced repairs to the Delaware Aqueduct may lessen its quality.
The mountainous country is experiencing more extreme weather driven by climate change, including melting glaciers that add to the frequency and severity of flooding.
Disasters in the small Himalayan nation have become more frequent as the effects of climate change intensify.
With communication lines down in the mountains amid Helene, early reports were unclear about how many landslides had occurred and the extent of damage from the storm.
From hurricanes to wildfires, a new generation of technologies could help utilities better plan for the risk of extreme weather to their electric grid.
More than the sheer repetition of extreme weather, the stakes have grown — for our homes, our communities and our lives.
A judge said he hoped to deter protests when he handed down lengthy terms for the two activists, who dumped soup on the painting in 2022. Later that day, activists did it again.
Artificial intelligence’s hunger for energy has set off a boom in utility stocks and may lead to the reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, our columnist says.
Catastrophic storms have crippled the state’s home insurance market in the past, and some researchers say it is dangerously vulnerable.
The Times hosted leaders and policymakers to talk about growing threats of climate change, and spoke with the C.E.O. of Occidental Petroleum.
Catastrophic flooding is forecast in mountain areas and significant landslides are possible through Friday in parts of the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia.
Around the country, people with a deep distrust of government want to preemptively ban the use of aerosols to reduce heat from the sun.
Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops.
At a New York Times Climate Forward event, Kevin D. Roberts said climate change amounted to a “hot year.”
Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet.
In his first interview with Western media since becoming president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye said the United Nations has to change to reflect changing world demographics.
Terry Tempest Williams shares her experience surviving the terror and beauty of a flash flood.
As climate change threatens the availability of food, we must diversify what’s on our plates.
Andy Jarvis, Bruce Friedrich, Will Harris and Katie Cantrell are part of a group focused on food who are leading conversations at the Times’s Climate Forward Changemaker Lunch.
For over two decades the city’s mayor has reclaimed public space for people and limited vehicles in the city center, which reduced traffic and improved air quality.
Jamal Lewis and Aloja Airewele are part of a group focused on electrification. They are leading conversations at the Times’s Climate Forward Changemaker Lunch.
With electricity scarce, Africa’s most populated country struggles to provide lifesaving cooling without worsening the very crisis causing the heat.
Researchers are looking at the impact that individuals’ actions can have on reducing carbon emissions — and the best ways to get people to adopt them.
Solutions to the problem of climate change have never been more clear. But the scale of the problem keeps getting bigger.
Storm Boris dumped record amounts of rain over Central and Eastern Europe this month. A new study found climate change made the deluge more likely.
At an event in New York, the president said federal investments in climate action would be at risk if former President Donald J. Trump retook the White House.
What should The Times ask change experts, world leaders and policymakers at its Climate Forward conference on Sept. 25?
The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste.
The cutting edge of American battery technology is rusty.
The lawsuit, seeking ‘multiple billions of dollars,’ opens a new front in the legal battles with oil and gas companies over climate and environmental issues.
From Covid to dengue, viral outbreaks seemed to be popping up all over. But maybe Americans are just more attuned to threats now.
A transformed China, conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, and intractable clashes over money have pushed the prospects of progress to a new low.
As climate change brings water shortages to vacation hot spots, we look at Greece’s tourism-dependent islands, where residents sometimes compete with visitors for a dwindling supply.
By tweaking the chemistry of rivers and oceans, humans could remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air. But huge challenges loom.
It looks like and feels like a regular street. But beneath the surface, six layers are working to keep rainwater from overwhelming New York City neighborhoods.
Electrifying the world could produce the largest development gains since the 1990s.
There’s a growing understanding of the health threats of PFAS chemicals in what we eat and drink.
Are we ready for the future of meat?
Pastures were fertilized with toxic sewage decades ago. Nobody knew, until the cows’ milk was tested.
Some activists are questioning whether the federal government can accurately verify a tax program for facilities that store planet-warming gases.
The infamous plant, closed since 2019, is getting a new lease on life after Microsoft agreed to buy its electricity to supply a growing fleet of data centers.
At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a new reconstruction of Earth’s deep past.
An emerging body of research aims to put dollar figures on the environmental costs of foods we eat every day.
Schools across the country are adding trees, tent-like structures and water to their playgrounds as temperatures soar.
Leaders around the world are asking the European Union to delay rules that would require companies to police their global supply chains.
Satellite data shows the U.S. releasing more and more of the potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, researchers said, despite pledges to cut back.
Flooding events around the world share a common factor of an atmosphere made warmer by climate change. What can be done to help citizens prepare?
In the San Bernardino Mountains, another wildfire has forced residents to flee, the latest reminder that they must accept the risks of climate change if they want to remain.
The members of a self-described ragtag group had little in common, but their campaign could serve as model for future environmental efforts.
Climate change is influencing extreme weather events like the flooding across six countries that has led to mass evacuations of cities as the waters continue to rise.
Un nuevo análisis muestra que para una generación de mujeres jóvenes, la era Trump movió sus políticas hacia la izquierda.
You remember Hurricane Katrina. Why not that lethal heat wave?
There’s a natural world trapped within our cities.
Researchers are studying the role of eelgrass beds for carbon capture and the health of the habitat for a variety of species.
Sign up to watch the livestream of the Climate Forward conference on Wednesday, Sept. 25.
Much of the good news about green energy is coming out of one country.
A philosopher wants to take back the issue from conservatives.
Energy businesses and farmers in western Pennsylvania are struggling because of prices, an issue that has not figured prominently in the campaigns of Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris.
For a generation of girls raised to believe they could be anything, the Trump era moved their politics to the left, a new analysis shows.
We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.
New Yorkers are spending billions on houses in flood-prone areas despite growing awareness of the effects of climate change.
As climate change continues unabated, the goal is to examine technologies that could artificially cool the Earth “responsibly and ethically.”
The courts have become one of the most important battlegrounds in the fight over planet-warming emissions. Here are prominent cases to watch.
In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality.
A new federal database helps users determine the likelihood of their community experiencing a landslide.
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.
Accidents involving blades made by GE Vernova have delayed projects off the coasts of Massachusetts and England and could imperil climate goals.
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.
Vice President Kamala Harris nodded to the urgency of climate change but also highlighted the country’s record levels of oil and gas production.
A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.
If Donald Trump wins a second term, America would be at risk of falling even further behind China.
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.
Here’s what the Times climate team would ask Harris and Trump about climate change, energy policy and the environment.
Here’s what Vice President Harris and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, crime, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.
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.
While the Line fire burns in Southern California, what can we learn from how a changing climate has affected an expanding fire season?
Many Southern Californians have moved to San Bernardino County for more affordable homes and calmer lifestyles, but some also face disaster risks.
The suds that go down the drain can be harmful to wildlife. We’ve got tips on how to clean clothes and support nature.
Readers discuss election obstacles. Also: Donald Trump’s claim about Kamala Harris’s crowds; the Olympics; Covid vaccines; food and the climate.
A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.
In her elegant essay collection, “Lessons for Survival,” Emily Raboteau confronts climate collapse, societal breakdown and the Covid pandemic while trying to raise children in a responsible way.
An increasing number of migrants are trying to pass through the dangerous terrain connecting South and Central America. What forces them to take that route?
The decision could rip a hole in Berlin’s budget and complicate the transition to a greener economy.
Readers disagree with an essay expressing concern about a decline after a peak. Also: Rudy Giuliani’s drinking; book bans; masks in hospitals; wedding magic.
With residents unprepared for New York City’s recent flooding, it was a day of unnecessary chaos and frustration.
Of climate denial, Covid denial and cryptocurrency.
Mientras prestábamos atención a la pandemia, China y Ucrania, los caminos hacia la prosperidad y los intereses comunes se han oscurecido.
While the world’s eyes were on the pandemic, China and the war in Ukraine, the paths to prosperity and shared interests have grown murkier.
Don’t be fooled by its generic title. Lesley Lokko’s “Laboratory of the Future” is the most ambitious and pointedly political Venice Architecture Biennale in years.
Fungi are a public health blind spot.
Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen.
Also, the eight warmest years on record and a fragile political alliance in the Philippines.
The year 2022 was not great. But even in the midst of overlapping calamities, progress is being made.
As long as we do the best we can, and appreciate life’s fullness, we will leave the world a better place for our children.
Debate intensified over a contentious issue: the creation of a fund to help poor and vulnerable countries pay for loss and damage caused by climate change.
Humanity faces a complex knot of seemingly distinct but entangled crises that are causing damage greater than the sum of their individual harms.
Algunos países en desarrollo están haciendo acuerdos financieros que podrían darles un mayor papel en la lucha contra el cambio climático.
Developing nations are reducing their debt by pledging to protect their resources in financial deals that could give them a bigger role in the fight against climate change.
Plus Myanmar gets closer to Russia and a dire climate report.
How much should candidates disclose about their health? Also: Drone rules; political fears; future pandemics; donations and climate policy.
El filántropo habló sobre cómo la pandemia y los efectos de la guerra en Ucrania están retrasando el progreso.
The philanthropist on how the pandemic and the effects of the war in Ukraine are setting back progress.