With villages swept away and Pakistan’s largest city assailed by monsoon floods, climate change has brought a catastrophic new normal to the country.
Chinese automakers have rolled out chargers that can mostly recharge a car’s battery in about five minutes. Yet U.S. technology lags far behind.
El virus, que puede incapacitar a las víctimas durante años, se extiende rápidamente, incluso en China y otros lugares que no la habían visto antes.
American demand for tropical wood that is used in motor homes, conservationists say, is accelerating the disappearance of some of the world’s largest forests.
Los urbanistas dicen que temperaturas de hasta 50 grados Celsius podrían paralizar la capital francesa tan pronto como en 2050. Ya están empezando a prepararse.
Chikungunya, which can disable victims for years, is spreading rapidly, including in China and other places that have not seen it before.
En toda la península ibérica, miles de personas intentan sofocar las mortíferas llamas en medio de un clima peligrosamente caluroso.
Across the Iberian Peninsula, thousands are trying to quell deadly flames amid dangerously hot weather.
It is lashing out at the world’s leading energy organization for saying oil and gas use could start declining as the world pivots to cleaner alternatives.
City planners say the day when temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, or 50 Celsius, could stall the French capital is not far off. They are already starting to prepare.
La tradición de la siesta no es casual. España lleva siglos conviviendo con el calor extremo, y sus habitantes tienen formas de sobrellevarlo.
As President Trump dismantles the country’s efforts to fight climate change, environmental groups are back on their heels.
El progreso medioambiental del país sudamericano está amenazado por una serie de reformas impulsadas por su joven presidente populista, Daniel Noboa.
The tradition of the siesta is no accident. Spain has been living with extreme heat for centuries, and its people have ways of coping.
The move comes as the Trump administration has issued a barrage of new restrictions on renewable energy across the country.
The lawsuit seeks to block the Trump administration from repealing the legal foundation for regulating climate pollution.
Countries failed to bridge wide gaps on whether the world should limit plastic manufacturing and restrict the use of harmful plastic chemicals.
The country has endured heavier rain during monsoon seasons, which scientists have attributed to climate change. The authorities said that at least 185 people died on Friday.
Ecuador’s ecological progress is threatened by a series of reforms steamrolled by its young populist president, Daniel Noboa.
After three years of talks, and despite growing warnings about the dangers of plastics pollution, nations are at an impasse again over what to do about it.
Unusually dry conditions are revealing the outlines of old walls at British historical sites. Climate change is making the lines, called “parchmarks,” more frequently visible.
A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.
Readers respond to articles about the E.P.A.’s reversal on the dangers of climate change. Also: Hiding unfavorable jobs data.
As the summer heat becomes increasingly extreme in Phoenix, people who can’t escape the sun are suffering third-degree burns, heatstroke and dehydration.
The Mendenhall River in Alaska was at “major flood” stage as of Wednesday morning, with additional water expected from an overflowing glacial lake.
The Manhattan restaurant drew global praise and skepticism with its climate-minded, all-plant menu. Now its chef wants to be more welcoming — and popular.
The recent flooding that killed 31 in a single nursing home exposed flaws in emergency planning as China braces for more extreme and unpredictable weather.
Trump puede eludir las consecuencias de sus actos; el resto de nosotros, no.
Mientras las olas de calor azotan Europa, la necesidad de tener aire acondicionado ha pasado a formar parte de las polémicas políticas entre la derecha y la izquierda en Francia.
Small, plug-in solar power systems have become popular in Germany and several other countries. So why haven’t they taken off in the United States?
As heat waves batter Europe, the need (or not) for air-conditioning has become part of the political tug of war in France between the right and the left.
Oracle’s co-founder and the world’s second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his own research institute and for-profit ventures to address health, hunger and climate change.
The market for the clean-burning fuel remains nascent, costs are rising, and Congress just put a lucrative tax credit out of reach for many companies.
Trump may be able to escape the consequences of his actions; the rest of us cannot.
Gene Karpinski, who retired from leading the League of Conservation Voters after two decades, said the group that once backed G.O.P. candidates now finds it difficult to do so.
Smothering electric vehicles might have been a regrettable mistake for a Republican to make 10 years ago. Today, it is economic idiocy.
Critics accused the administration of a double standard, trying to stop wind projects because of potential bald eagle deaths while easing rules for oil and gas companies.
A Los Angeles artist keeps upping the ante, whether photographing Arctic glaciers through lenses made of their own ice or using a camera that captures light itself at a trillion frames per second.
Officials building a Florida detention center appear to be skipping environmental reviews made mandatory decades ago after a fight over an airport at the very same spot.
The database, which helps companies calculate their greenhouse gas emissions, will continue under a consortium that includes Stanford University.
In its first six months, the Trump administration has filed 11 civil cases against polluters compared with the Biden administration’s 30.
Austria tried a combination of taxes and rebates to reduce emissions.
Tras haberse mantenido inalterable durante décadas, el famoso glaciar ha adelgazado considerablemente desde 2019, dicen los investigadores.
New York environmental conservation officials had observed a sharp decline in the animal’s health that gave it “a low likelihood of survival.”
After holding steady for decades, the beloved Perito Moreno has thinned considerably since 2019, scientists said.
Federal agencies have recently issued a barrage of restrictions that could halt construction of solar and wind farms on public and private lands.
The legal claim, one of a raft of lawsuits across the country, had accused companies of a yearslong disinformation campaign about climate change.
As environmentalists made the case on Wednesday to stop operations, what was most striking was how many significant questions remained unanswered about the immigration detention center.
Summertime fire activity is creeping into spring, and the balmier climate is a major driver, scientists said.
The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. All the state can do is prepare.
Emissions are “going through the roof” because of A.I., according to new sustainability reports.
If finalized, the move would escalate the Trump administration’s efforts to claw back billions of dollars in climate grants awarded under President Biden.
A business called Northern Lights is seen as a model for efforts to pump carbon dioxide deep into wells, but high costs remain an obstacle.
A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium responsible.
The toxic byproducts of human civilization are everywhere. Even in our bodies.
The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.
Three big numbers that show how President Trump has directed tens of billions of dollars in incentives to fossil fuel companies.
The smoke is expected to remain over the northern and central Plains of the United States for the next couple of days, according to meteorologists.
Readers object to Trump administration actions on climate change. Also: The Israel-Gaza war; a defense of home-schooling.
The agency asked five climate skeptics to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Scientists are pointing out its errors.
The barrier, in a remote part of Arizona, would threaten one of the most important remaining animal migration routes on the state’s southern border, according to a new report.
President Trump took his most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts.
New tallies of the administration’s tax breaks and other incentives add up to tens of billions of dollars of benefits to the fossil fuel industry.
The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.
A Trump administration proposal runs counter to both basic logic and a growing mountain of science documenting direct harms from climate change.
The European Union pledged to buy billions of dollars’ worth of energy resources from the United States. Experts say that’s unrealistic and could hurt Europe’s climate goals.
The agency’s administrator said in a podcast that the move would be “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.”
Sites including at least 15 coal plants sought exemptions from environmental rules using a new Trump administration system to fast-track requests, documents show.
Some pets have wide-ranging effects on the planet. Here’s how to lessen them.
La ciudad de Belém, sede de la 30.ª Conferencia de la ONU sobre el Cambio Climático, tiene escasez de habitaciones de hotel. Estos establecimientos ofrecen una solución.
Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research.
Firefighters are battling several blazes, with officials warning that extreme heat will pose a risk of more in the coming days.
The Brazilian city of Belém, host to the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, is short on hotel rooms. Love motels are offering a solution.
The debate over whether to install turf over grass fields has become a referendum on sports, health, the environment and the use of scarce public resources.
The agreement addresses a longstanding problem that has sickened people in both countries.
Trump just shredded America’s most ambitious climate policy. Jane Flegal and Jesse Jenkins discuss what this means for the future of renewable energy in the U.S.
Inside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem.
As part of our 50 States, 50 Fixes series, more than 2,400 Times readers wrote in to tell us about climate action in their communities.
Many ‘dark vessels’ fish illegally in oceans worldwide. New studies show how often they go into Marine Protected Areas.
A joint statement promised new efforts to cut emissions at a time when China is positioning itself as the world’s one-stop shop for clean energy technologies.
Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.
A landmark legal ruling leaves no doubt that continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law.
Last year, a federal court banned some uses of the herbicide, which can drift into fields and damage crops.
With books and workshops, she helped others deal with the stress caused by climate change, inspiring them to take action and not be paralyzed by despair.
While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate.
The project, known as Grain Belt Express, had drawn fierce opposition from some landowners and Republican lawmakers.
The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague.
A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.
New Jersey officials are tinkering with the state’s ambitious climate regulations amid a housing crisis. Activists say that economically vulnerable residents could suffer.
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
An Indigenous-led nonprofit group is bringing solar power to Navajo Nation and the Hopi tribe, where about 15,000 households lack access to electricity.
Peat bogs have huge potential to store planet-warming carbon. The ones in North Carolina just need some help to get healthy again.
A nonprofit planted five “microforests” to tackle environmental problems in Elizabeth, N.J. Scientists say they’re making a big difference.
After passing a Dark Sky ordinance to curb light pollution and save energy, Pittsburgh is installing adjustable streetlights.
China wants to dominate the market for the cars of the future, and it has set its sights on Brazil’s giant auto market.
Ken Pagurek had told colleagues the Trump administration was causing ‘chaos’ inside FEMA and creating dangerous delays in disaster response.
Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagged for review in connection with an executive order from President Trump.
In a speech on renewable energy, António Guterres cited “clear market distortion” in favor of fossil fuels by President Trump and others but called the transition to cleaner energy economically inevitable.
Mientras Ford y Mercedes se retiran, Great Wall Motor y BYD construyen fábricas y llevan vehículos eléctricos e híbridos asequibles a uno de los mayores mercados del mundo.
Forest fires are on the rise globally. An increase in severe fire weather is largely responsible.
As the likes of Ford and Mercedes retreat, Great Wall Motor and BYD are building factories and bringing affordable EVs and hybrids to one of the world’s biggest markets.
As the likes of Ford and Mercedes retreat, China is building factories and bringing affordable electric vehicles and hybrids to one of the world’s biggest markets in Brazil, and ultimately, the rest of Latin America. Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter, explains.
Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.
La gestión de Biden estará en los libros de historia como un interregno entre dos mandatos de Donald Trump, una pausa en medio de un periodo caótico de cambio, para bien o para mal.
Biden’s disastrous debate performance highlighted age concerns.
As leaders gather for a global climate summit, investors are rewarding oil giants like Exxon Mobil that did not embrace wind and solar.
Our nation needs an economic disaster preparedness tool kit to avoid the scourge of inflation.
A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.
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.
Readers discuss an investigation into the lack of secular education at New York’s yeshivas. Also: Outdoor dining; climate-crisis deniers.
Soaring needs and wealthy countries’ focus on Ukraine have left aid agencies with too little money to address the world’s other crises, forcing them to cut programs.
The departure of a grain-filled vessel from Odesa was hailed as a victory against global hunger. But experts say the crisis is so big that no single advance can reverse it.
President Biden is under pressure — often from his own allies — to declare national emergencies on issues like climate and abortion that are roiling American culture.
Monsoon rains have devastated Pakistan’s economic hub, Karachi, adding urgency to pleas to better equip cities to handle more frequent extreme weather.
La suspensión de actividades humanas por la covid ha sido una oportunidad para entender mejor cómo afectamos a otras especies del planeta.
If only it were just about money.
Covid precautions created a global slowdown in human activity — and an opportunity to learn more about the complex ways we affect other species.
A perfect storm of climate change, a European war and Covid have left the French scrambling for alternatives.
Plus the conviction of an ailing Hong Kong activist and President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming trip to Iran.
Parts of the east and south withered under extreme temperatures, even as health workers in hazmat suits persisted in a round of mandatory coronavirus tests.
The Legislature passed some bills that are obscure but significant, in the view of climate activists.
Plus Xi Jinping visits Hong Kong and Ukraine takes back Snake Island.
La COVID-19, el cambio climático y la posibilidad de una crisis alimentaria global demuestran que los problemas del mundo están muy ligados entre sí. Y también las soluciones.
No single country can solve the problem of rising food and fuel costs.
Along with everything else, the pandemic was a huge missed opportunity.
The key Ukrainian city lost its last bridge as fighting intensifies.
Gestures of good will and concern from developed countries can hide nationalism so pointed that it amounts to something like sadism.