Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.
Officials and business executives at the annual gathering in Switzerland said the fight against global climate change would continue with or without the United States.
In a sweeping order, President Trump halted federal approvals for new wind farms, in a move that could affect projects on land and in the ocean.
President Trump’s wave of executive orders yesterday sent an undeniable signal to the world about the United States’ role in fighting climate change.
Automakers and even some Republicans may fight to preserve funds, and environmental activists will likely sue, but some experts said that some changes may not survive legal challenges.
El presidente de EE. UU. hizo movimientos políticos después de tomar posesión: se retiró de acuerdos internacionales, prometió aranceles e indultó a casi todos los alborotadores del 6 de enero.
President Trump made major policy moves immediately after taking office, withdrawing from major international agreements, promising steep tariffs and pardoning nearly all of the Jan. 6 rioters.
In “Dark Laboratory,” Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer’s conquest of the Caribbean.
The president said he’d declare an energy “emergency,” promote drilling and end support for electric cars. His pivot to oil and gas follows the hottest year in recorded history.
The United States will be one of only four countries outside the Paris Agreement, which is designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Readers respond to an editorial with their own suggestions. Also: The benefits of virtual therapy; in praise of solitude; our warming planet.
Several large U.S. financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve, have withdrawn from the networks after years of growing political and legal pressure.
Some more realistic ways to think about the challenges ahead.
A Times climate reporter reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster.
You don’t need to settle for what your insurance company or the government first offers. And you don’t have to fight alone.
The central bank said it had decided to leave the network after the group’s work “increasingly broadened in scope.”
The fire at the Moss Landing plant, which stores electricity for the power grid, was unrelated to wildfires in Los Angeles.
Agencies and unions have put in place new guardrails designed to limit political interference in government research.
New York and Vermont recently passed laws like these, which require energy companies to pay climate damages and will likely face fierce challenges.
The global landscape of today is less predictable and more disordered. But it need not be less cooperative.
Republicans said they were seeking ways to quickly reverse the restrictions in the state’s North Slope region.
As climate threats worsen, they are skipping payments and losing protection.
While firefighters begin containing the Los Angeles wildfires, the land left behind is at a higher risk of floods and debris flows.
The loan guarantees are one of the final attempts by the outgoing Biden administration to encourage power companies to cut emissions while trying to keep rates down.
Mr. Zeldin, a Trump loyalist, would be charged with dismantling climate rules and perhaps the agency itself. He faced questions from the Senate Thursday.
The former North Dakota governor told senators at his confirmation hearing that he saw limits on energy production as a national security threat.
Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.
Instead of addressing staffing shortages on the lands the federal government manages, Republicans have proposed making them worse.
Rules for a $7,500 tax break for electric vehicle purchases and leases recently changed, but more far-reaching changes are expected when President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office.
After being targeted by the meat industry, swept up in the culture wars and pummeled in sales, two plant based meat companies are reinventing themselves.
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.
Health hazards from soot and smoke blown indoors onto furniture and walls can linger for months, researchers say: “Wind will get through every crack.”
The agency offers different types of financial assistance after disasters. The fastest is a one-time payment of $770.
Do these disasters signal a shift in social conditions?
Biden’s disastrous debate performance highlighted age concerns.
When it comes to gas exports and competition with China, the two administrations share a similar vision, the top U.S. energy diplomat says.
Wright, the founder of a fracking firm, testified that he would back all forms of low-carbon energy as well as gas, oil and coal.
The ongoing disaster will affect residents’ health, local industries, public budgets and the cost of housing for years to come.
State regulators said the measures would probably have been rejected by the Trump administration and that they would focus on homegrown legal strategies instead.
The California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, had just $377 million available last week to pay claims that could reach billions, officials said.
Short, heavy rainfall is typical of the Mediterranean, but nothing is typical about what has been happening there recently.
The high court declined to hear a challenge to a major case in which Honolulu is suing energy companies over climate change.
Readers urge public officials to take action on climate change rather than casting blame. Also: Teflon Don; the Gulf of America; treating schizophrenia.
Harold G. Hamm, the founder of the Oklahoma-based Continental Resources, and other oil and gas companies stand to profit from Donald Trump’s energy policies.
It’s way too soon for ideological score settling.
Here’s what to know about potential savings on your power bill, and the environmental benefits.
California is one of America’s most difficult and costly places to build — a driving factor behind the state’s longstanding affordable housing shortage.
Readers offer solutions in New York and elsewhere. Also: A soldier’s moral trauma; doctors weighing patients; access to environmental data.
Los Angeles seemed like paradise. Who could have imagined where it would lead?
Four trends are converging to make life much scarier.
Researchers see a growing health danger from the vast plumes of pollution spawned by wildfires like the ones devastating Los Angeles.
Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?
Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.
California has focused on fortifying communities against wildfires. But with growing threats, that may not be enough.
Me mudé con mi familia hace dos años porque, a medida que el clima de California se volvía más seco y caluroso, temía que nuestro vecindario fuera víctima de los incendios.
Readers offer perspectives on the California wildfires and climate change. Also: Jimmy Carter’s gift; Samuel Alito, Donald Trump and ethics.
Constellation Energy’s deal to buy Calpine is being driven by fast-rising demand for electricity in part by the technology industry’s investments in artificial intelligence.
After the Bobcat fire, the area no longer felt safe.
Global temperatures last year crept past 1.5 degrees Celsius, a key goal for climate diplomacy, raising questions about how much nations can stop the planet from heating up further.
It’s widely used because it can slow flames in ways that water can’t. But it also contains heavy metals and other harmful compounds.
Global temperatures last year crept past a key goal, raising questions about how much nations can stop the planet from heating up further.
Posting on the social media site he owns, Mr. Musk blamed the fires on government. Scientists said a warming planet set the conditions.
Sheila Morovati’s Pacific Palisades home was spared, but her neighborhood was decimated in the Los Angeles fires. For her, climate change looms over the tragic losses.
After staying flat for nearly two decades, electricity use is starting to rise again, and the boom in wind and solar power hasn’t kept pace.
El humo y la calidad del aire deteriorada crean condiciones consideradas de riesgo para niños, ancianos y personas con enfermedades crónicas, pulmonares o cardiacas.
El presidente electo de Estados Unidos dijo que el país necesitaba la isla, parte semiautónoma de Dinamarca, por motivos de seguridad nacional. Pero hay otros posibles intereses.
Tras la multimillonaria ampliación del canal hace casi una década, a los investigadores les preocupa ahora que más peces estén abriéndose paso de un océano al otro.
Some studies have indicated that young children, especially those under the age of 4, are at particular risk because their lungs are still developing.
The president-elect said the United States needed the island, which is a semiautonomous part of Denmark, for national security reasons. But there are other possible interests.
A lucrative tax credit for renewable energy could be hard to kill because it applies to a technologies favored by Republicans, not just wind and solar.
The energy that will power the booming data-center industry could end up increasing emissions, at least in the short term.
Wind energy is one of the fastest growing and cheapest forms of electricity in the United States. The president-elect calls it “garbage.”
The lawsuit, an unusual strategy for the oil giant, comes after California’s attorney general sued Exxon last year alleging it misled the public about plastics recycling.
The decision means Mr. Biden has protected about 674 million acres of federal land, more than any other president.
Climate impacts are fueling the cost-of-living crisis, especially for the poor and working class.
A multibillion-dollar expansion helped the canal accommodate king-size cargo ships. It might also be fueling ecological upheaval.
Wastewater, even after treatment to make it drinkable, contains high levels of PFAS, according to researchers.
The ban affects the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and Washington, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.
Readers disagree with an essay about factory farms.
Communities must be able to move to solid ground while remaining whole.
The newly elected Speaker said the party would make it a priority to “restore America’s energy dominance.”
El cambio climático está provocando condiciones de sequía que están haciendo que el Canal de Panamá sea más difícil de operar y más caro de atravesar.
The move, expected as early as Monday, relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.
The panels, removed under Ronald Reagan, found new homes from Maine to China. And their legacy still reverberates.
Forty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carter’s environmental legacy. President Biden’s climate initiatives could face a similar fate.
Readers discuss for-profit health insurers and how to reform U.S. health care. Also: A police failure in New Orleans; making polluters pay.
Climate change is causing drought conditions that are making the Panama Canal harder to operate and more expensive to pass through.
Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping and trade.
Plus, what you might be eating in 2025.
En 2003, la empresa compartió con la autoridad ambiental una investigación que revelaba que los lodos de aguas residuales, usados como fertilizante en todo EE. UU., contenían sustancias tóxicas.
Una sequía ha afectado los ríos y embalses del país sudamericano, lo que ha provocado apagones de hasta 14 horas. Algunos temen que sea el inicio de una crisis mundial de este tipo de energías.
Carter’s vision and persistence on solar energy deserve to be brightly illuminated.
These organizations are capturing local and regional news about climate and environmental justice that often flies under the national radar.
You’ve got choices, from menstrual cups to washable pads. Here’s how they stack up.
An extraordinary drought has drained Ecuador’s rivers and reservoirs, leading to power outages of up to 14 hours. Some fear this is the beginning of a larger global crisis.
Steven Rattner recaps a historic year in charts.
The aviation industry should get serious about direct air capture so that its emissions don’t remain in the atmosphere.
Wholesale coffee prices are trading near a 50-year high because of shortages related to extreme weather and increased global demand.
They were the bright lights during a rocky year, making the city a cooler, and fairer, place to be.
As a researcher at several universities and an adviser at NASA, he used data analysis to show how the planet’s different systems are interrelated.
The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”
As climate change intensifies, flooding is emerging as a threat for homes not previously seen as high-risk. Some residents are responding creatively by lifting up their homes.
“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth.
Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision.
The measure will seek to raise funds to pay for some of the damage caused by extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent because of the combustion of fossil fuels.
Readers discuss the need for frank discussions about porn. Also: Luigi Mangione; pediatric cancer bills; our environmental focus; the obesity crisis.
Your holiday baking wouldn’t be the same without it.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to roll back many of the rules and subsidies that have attracted billions of dollars from the private sector to renewable energy and electric vehicles.
America must compete with China, but there’s also a complicated reality that both countries have to face.
An increasingly ferocious and volatile surf is raising questions about the future of the state’s piers, which have defined the coastline for generations.
En los últimos días, el presidente electo ha pedido que se afirme el control estadounidense en el exterior, demostrando que su filosofía de “Estados Unidos primero” tiene una dimensión expansionista.
Hun Manet, who took over as prime minister last year, has followed in the steps of his father, who ran Cambodia for nearly 40 years.
In recent days the president-elect has called for asserting U.S. control over the Panama Canal and Greenland, showing that his “America First” philosophy has an expansionist dimension.
Extreme weather is creating a crisis in the home insurance market that has no easy solution.
A new method of making nonvintage Champagnes is taking hold. Producers see it as a hedge against climate change while improving overall quality.
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.