New research questions the long-held theory that reintroduction of such a predator caused a trophic cascade, spawning renewal of vegetation and spurring biodiversity.
París se está convirtiendo en una ciudad de bicicletas. En China, la gente compra coches eléctricos de 5000 dólares. Echamos un vistazo a algunos puntos positivos en la reducción de emisiones.
En teoría, recibir pedidos a domicilio puede ser más eficiente que ir en auto hasta la tienda. Pero aun así, conviene pensar bien antes de añadir algo al carrito de compras.
Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.
April is typically hot in South and Southeast Asia, but temperatures this month have been unusually high.
In theory, getting deliveries can be more efficient than driving to the store. But you may still want to think before you add to cart.
At a national park in Virginia on Monday, the president will point to investments in clean energy and appear with future members of his American Climate Corps.
“Saving the planet” is the wrong goal.
To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.
Focusing on disaster hasn’t changed the planet’s trajectory. Will a more upbeat approach show a way forward?
The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.
There’s 50 percent more carbon dioxide in the air than before the Industrial Revolution.
The government has pledged to crack down on rapid development, and on seaside businesses seeking to take advantage of a tourist boom. But some residents and conservationists are unimpressed.
Despite significant progress, Scotland was falling short on cutting vehicle emissions, switching to heat pumps and even restoring peatland, the government said.
The step follows an extraordinary move that requires utilities to reduce the levels of carcinogenic PFAS compounds in drinking water to near-zero.
Nearly 50 leaders and activists who worked with Mr. Kennedy at an environmental nonprofit group will run ads calling on him to “Honor our planet, drop out.”
Las imágenes de una ciudad desértica con tormentas y calles inundadas han conmocionado al mundo y abren un debate sobre la siembra de nubes y el cambio climático.
He wants China to win the race to provide climate solutions and assume the global leadership that would come with it.
As record heat enveloped the nation, the rate of emergency room visits increased compared with the previous five years, a sign of the major health risks of high temperatures.
It’s still unclear how the world will pay for developing nations to fight climate change.
The president’s campaign has featured initiatives aimed at young people, union workers and environmentalists, but it is not clear that they will be sufficient to rekindle support in those groups.
Images of a saturated desert metropolis startled the world, prompting talk of cloud seeding, climate change and designing cities for intensified weather.
Development and groundwater pumping are causing land subsidence and heightening the risks of sea level rise.
The measure elevates conservation in a number of ways, including by creating new leases for the restoration of degraded areas.
Pakistani officials warned of more flooding and heavy rainfall next week, stoking fears of a particularly brutal monsoon season to come.
The disaster, intensified by El Niño, is devastating communities across several countries, killing crops and livestock and sending food prices soaring.
Tunde Onakoya is trying to break a record for the longest chess marathon. And he’s playing his games in the open air in Manhattan.
The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.
Un grupo de científicos en Australia prueba distintas estrategias para proteger a uno de los animales más entrañables de su país.
Go on, grab a handful of soil or hike a muddy trail: It can benefit everything from your mood to your microbiome.
The Environmental Protection Agency says “forever chemicals” must be removed from tap water. But they lurk in much more of what we eat, drink and use.
Clerics in Indonesia are issuing fatwas, retrofitting mosques and imploring congregants to help turn the tide against climate change.
A mining company wants to build a 211-mile industrial road through Alaskan wilderness to reach a large copper deposit. The Interior Department says it would harm wildlife and communities.
A series of workshops hosted by the artist collective Field Meridians will try to get New Yorkers to open their eyes to the nature all around them.
We need to grapple with the many hidden and little-understood but highly damaging effects of climate change.
El aumento de la temperatura del mar en todo el mundo ha provocado un fenómeno de blanqueamiento que se prevé será el más grande jamás registrado.
Our institutions are bad at solving “long problems,” but they don’t need to be.
Estos aparatos de alta eficiencia son los preferidos del movimiento ecologista en Nueva York. Te explicamos por qué.
Mr. Gore spoke at a climate leadership conference hosted by his nonprofit organization.
Rising sea temperatures around the planet have caused a bleaching event that is expected to be the most extensive on record.
To protect Australia’s iconic animals, scientists are experimenting with vaccine implants, probiotics, tree-planting drones and solar-powered tracking tags.
The highly efficient devices are the darlings of the environmental movement. Here’s why.
Los gobiernos de América Latina han confirmado más de 3,5 millones de casos de dengue en los tres primeros meses de 2024, frente a los 4,5 millones de todo 2023. Es una advertencia de un panorama cambiante para la enfermedad.
From airlines to pork sellers, corporate brands face legal and regulatory challenges for misleading the public with lofty climate claims.
The fossil fuel industry says higher rates will harm the economy. The administration says they will pay for the environmental costs of drilling and mining.
For the first time since 1920, the government has raised the rates that companies pay. The fossil fuel industry says it will hurt the economy.
The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument are expected to grow by a combined total of about 130,000 acres.
A public research institute in Brazil has proved a new shot protects against the disease, but can’t make it fast enough to stop the huge outbreak sweeping Latin America.
Readers critique and suggest ways to capture, store and recycle carbon. Also: Donald Trump’s jury; food aid; cruelty to chickens; creative disagreement.
What can fiction tell us about the apocalypse? Ayana Mathis finds unexpected hope in novels of crisis by Ling Ma, Jenny Offill and Jesmyn Ward.
The country, along with India, is still building power stations that run on coal. Elsewhere, retirements of older plants have slowed.
As they look to contain an increasingly aggressive China, the United States and Japan announced dozens of new agreements, including on military, economic, climate and space matters.
There have been record temperatures every day for more than a year. Scientists are investigating what’s behind the extraordinary measurements.
The federal government is ordering the removal of PFAS, a class of chemicals that poses serious health risks, from drinking water systems across the country.
Los expertos afirmaron que era la primera vez que una corte internacional determina que los gobiernos están obligados a cumplir sus objetivos climáticos en virtud de la legislación sobre derechos humanos.
Procter & Gamble, Nestlé y otras marcas confían en una nueva generación de plantas de reciclaje para cumplir sus objetivos medioambientales, pero la tecnología aún no funciona a plenitud.
Why atmospheric concentrations hit record levels last year.
The new regulation is aimed at reducing the risk of cancer for people who live close to plants emitting toxic chemicals.
Experts said it was the first time an international court determined that governments were legally obligated to meet their climate targets under human rights law.
From dolphins with Alzheimer’s to cranky traffic judges, writes Clayton Page Aldern, the whole planet is going berserk.
In the midst of a political and environmental dispute between the Czech Republic and Poland over a coal mine, a potato salad contest is held in a small border town.
Para averiguar cómo desperdiciar menos comida, la IA se asoma a los cubos de basura de los restaurantes y analiza los datos de las tiendas de comestibles.
Using European Central Bank lending data, researchers said there was not evidence that voluntary commitments were effective in reducing emissions.
Two have been freed so far, state media said. They were among eight arrested in 2018 on charges of spying, which they have denied.
Rising temperatures in Antarctica are making meteorites sink out of view before researchers can collect them.
Where they are welcomed, wild creatures can find a way to make use of nearly everything.
Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?
Más que ningún otro país, Guyana encarna la paradoja entre las secuelas del cambio climático y el atractivo económico de la industria petrolera.
Reducir el uso de plástico es una forma obvia de luchar contra el cambio climático. Sin embargo, hasta ahora ha sido la herramienta más eficaz para luchar contra otra amenaza medioambiental: el desperdicio de alimentos.
The project uses census data and an interactive map to identify areas with high levels of pollution and other socioeconomic risks.
A new technology is attempting to brighten clouds and bounce some of the sun’s rays back into space.
The term, which emerged in response to calls for "deglobalization," has been popping up more in trade and policy circles.
Gala Porras-Kim has confronted the restitution of cultural artifacts and now — with melting Antarctic ice — climate change.
Big brands like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé say a new generation of plants will help them meet environmental goals, but the technology is struggling to deliver.
Un ensayo en California está probando una máquina diseñada para reflejar la luz solar en el espacio con la finalidad de disminuir temporalmente las temperaturas del planeta.
He played a key role in securing the Montreal Protocol, an international environmental pact to protect the ozone layer by reducing the use of certain chemicals.
Cómo mantenerse a salvo cuando cae la nieve.
His work, on an increasingly large scale, attempted to highlight, and repair, the impact of human intervention on the landscape.
The Italian energy giant Eni sees future profits from collecting carbon dioxide and pumping it into natural gas fields that have been exhausted.
An early forecast from one set of experts sees an above-average hurricane season that may rival the busiest years on record.
The E.P.A. said the fund will spur a clean energy transition in overlooked communities. Republicans called it a “greendoggle.”
Artificial intelligence is peering into restaurant garbage pails and crunching grocery-store data to try to figure out how to send less uneaten food into dumpsters.
As forests succumb to ever-fiercer wildfires, the federal government and some adventurous private companies are trying to resuscitate an industry.
Wildfires and agricultural expansion offset big gains in protecting tropical forests last year.
Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.
A trial in California is testing a machine designed to reflect sunlight back into space. “All my colleagues hope that we never use these things,” one researcher said.
A new Vermont bill would create a “climate superfund.”
How to stay safe when the snow is coming down.
As governments impose limits on plastic food packaging, climate-friendlier alternatives are in the works. Here are some that might be coming to a grocery store near you.
To lure swiftlets, whose saliva-built nests fetch high prices in China, people in Borneo compete to build them the most luxurious accommodations: safe, clean, dark and with pools for bathing.
Ambitious projects are trying to engineer the atmosphere.
Our poet laureate Ada Limón is on a mission to reconnect us to nature.
Un arquitecto paisajista de China tiene una sorpresiva estrategia para ayudar a gestionar las crecidas de agua provocadas por tormentas potenciadas por el cambio climático.
Blocking solar rays. Sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ideas that sound like science fiction are now starting to become reality, raising concerns about safety.
Farm protests are changing not only Europe’s food system but also its politics, as the far right senses an opportunity.
More than any single country, Guyana demonstrates the struggle between the consequences of climate change and the lure of the oil economy.
Climate change is making heat waves linger for longer stretches of time, exacerbating the effects of extreme temperatures.
The latest in a string of ambitious climate regulations aims to clean up the heaviest polluters on the road. But truckers are worried.
The town of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the midst of catastrophe.
Mass death caused by a weather event known in Mongolia as dzud has devastated herds, leaving thousands of families short of food.
De cara al futuro, deberíamos seguir el ejemplo de los geólogos y mantener un sano escepticismo ante la palabra Antropoceno.
A tax on ship emissions could have an impact on almost everything we buy
Responses to a front-page article. Also: The bridge collapse; Donald Trump and the $60 Bible; political qualifications; Flaco the owl.
Decades of buried trash is releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at higher rates than previously estimated, the researchers said.
The rules give federal officials more leeway to protect species in a changing climate. Industry groups are expected to sue.
The company that owns the Merrimack and Schiller stations in New Hampshire plans to turn them into solar farms and battery storage for offshore wind.
A system that determines the sex of chicks before they hatch eliminates the need to destroy young males.
A landscape architect in China has a surprising strategy to help manage surges of water from storms supercharged by climate change.
The decision, which came after a legal challenge, throws into question the fate of dozens of similar measures across the United States.
Line 5 crosses tribal lands, runs beneath the water and needs major upgrades. Opponents fear spills. Supporters envision jobs. Everyone sees a fight.
Farmers of fruits and vegetables say coverage has become unavailable or unaffordable as drought and floods increasingly threaten their crops.
Lawmakers say preservationists held too much power over decisions on whether buildings should be demolished and what should be allowed to replace them.
Larry Fink, who leads the world’s biggest asset manager, warns in his annual investor letter that an aging population will soon pose huge economic troubles.
The Seine is becoming a test case for a European plan to cut carbon emissions by turning rivers into the new highways.
The Seine is becoming a test case for a European plan to cut carbon emissions by turning rivers into the new highways.
El polen de los árboles está alcanzando su cantidad máxima, así que te explicamos cómo prevenir y tratar el moqueo, los estornudos y otros molestos síntomas alérgicos.
Industries produce 25 percent of America’s planet-warming emissions but so far have proved very hard to clean up. The Biden administration is trying.
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge belongs to the planet. And we can still save it.
Experts explain how to tell if you have allergies, and how to find relief if you do.
Astronomers have gotten better at tracking the motions of stars just beyond the solar system. But that’s made it harder to predict Earth’s future and reconstruct its past.
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.