Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absurd.”
Governments and U.S. states committed to climate action now need to persuade the oil industry to protect the world from climate chaos.
The firms say their First Amendment rights are being violated when cities and states sue and accuse them of spreading misinformation about climate change.
Staples including wheat, beef and coffee are all being affected by the lack of rainfall. In some cases, prices are climbing to record highs.
As high temperatures have become more common in recent years, some people are adjusting, including by investing in air-conditioners.
The 7-to-2 decision stressed that it did not address the merits of the dispute, and concerned only whether the producers had standing to sue.
Republicans plan to terminate billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits. Experts say that will mean more greenhouse gas emissions and more dangerous heat.
Nearly two dozen state geological surveys depend heavily on federal funds. A proposed budget cut could slow or stop key geologic mapping work.
The energy crisis of the 1970s suggests that higher oil prices are unlikely to significantly shift U.S. energy policy away from fossil fuels.
Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them.
Officials ordered a huge cleanup effort after videos of the mountains of garbage spread widely online.
Piles of trash-filled caves in Zhangjiajie, China, famous for its towering limestone pillars.
BYD and other companies doubled their share of the car market after the European Union imposed higher tariffs on electric vehicles from China.
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.
The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.
If enacted, Republicans’ draft legislation would mean that President Biden’s signature climate legislation would effectively be neutered.
Four experts were sued for defamation ahead of a seminar where they planned to talk about research into the potential health risks on playgrounds and sports fields nationwide.
A medida que suben las temperaturas, proliferan garrapatas de todo tipo que amenazan la salud de las personas.
A Senate tax package softens some blows imposed on renewables by a House version of the bill. But it still terminates many credits for clean power.
The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.
As temperatures rise, ticks of all kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health.
The armored mammals are trafficked for their scales and meat.
No todos los aceites son malos. Algunos son mucho mejores que otros y, en algunos casos, podrían incluso brindar un beneficio al planeta.
Hot weather influences aircraft performance. We asked experts what it means for safety.
Even as global emissions plateau, new research shows that wildlife in the Arctic is exposed to rising levels, posing a risk to those who eat it.
The official, Jeremy Greenberg, was in charge of coordinating the national response to major disasters.
Genetically altering crops may be key to helping them adapt to extreme temperatures. But shrinking funds and social acceptance stand in the way.
JBS, the biggest meatpacker in the world, is set to go public on the New York Stock Exchange this week.
Senate Republicans want to sell the land to build more housing in the West, but the idea is contentious even within their own party.
California leaders said the state intends to challenge the move in court, and to find new ways to move drivers toward electric vehicles.
Sound is the primary means of tracking subs in vast ocean expanses, and research shows that it’s behaving differently as the seas warm.
It is becoming easier to find fast chargers for electric vehicles, and they are more likely to work — and not just for Teslas.
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said erasing regulations would produce jobs and lower electricity costs. He called efforts to fight climate change “a cult.”
The decision, a major reversal, could help poorer nations industrialize, cut planet-warming emissions and boost U.S. competitiveness on next-generation reactors.
Trump’s budget tells us three unhappy truths about America.
Federal tax breaks have fueled a boom. The House bill would end that immediately.
Billions have been invested in technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the sky in recent years. But Trump’s policies have clouded the outlook.
The agency plans to weaken limits on toxic emissions from power plants while also scrapping restrictions on planet-warming greenhouse gases.
Anger at PJM, which manages the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, has been boiling over in some state capitals.
An unusual lawsuit in Texas claims investment firms illegally conspired to fight climate change. On Monday, a judge heard arguments to dismiss the case.
Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.
In Cedartown, Ga., a solar recycling company’s plan to hire 1,200 people could be upended by Republicans in Congress.
Parts of Canada are seeing some of their most unhealthy air yet, and the smoke is likely to move over the United States again this weekend.
Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive.
A plume of dust is affecting air quality in Florida and may reach other Southern states soon. Here’s what we know about the potential health effects.
Poaching rates dropped by more than half in African reserves where veterinarians removed the animals’ horns, which are in high demand in some parts of Asia.
He worked for the Brooklyn Dodgers and wrote about sports but mostly focused on conservation, publishing a sequel to Rachel Carson’s exposé on the dangers of pesticides.
Higher temperatures caused by climate change are driving complex processes that make droughts bigger and more severe, new research shows.
El año pasado, según el gobierno saudí, murieron más de 1300 peregrinos, muchos de ellos procedentes de Egipto. Las autoridades dijeron que el calor sigue siendo el mayor problema de la temporada
The combination of a data center boom, rising gas exports and cuts to clean energy tax breaks could spike American energy bills, analysts say.
Millions will make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The kingdom faces scrutiny over safety after more than 1,300 people died last year.
Michael Boren, a tech company founder, has clashed with the agency for years over land he owns in Idaho.
Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”
Michael Boren, nominated by President Trump, is accused of threatening trail workers with a helicopter, building an airstrip without a permit and putting a cabin on federal property.
The Interior Department plans to repeal Biden-era protections across the state’s ecologically sensitive North Slope.
He began his career as a pastor. But he was forced out of his congregation in 1965, which led to a new life pondering the value of nature.
Senate Republicans understand that energy abundance is essential for the economy, national security and the country’s well-being. Now they must act.
When it comes to climate and the environment, some oils are a cut above. Here’s what to know.
The livestream featuring hundreds of meteorologists and climate scientists began on May 28 and is scheduled to run through June 1, the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season.
From bee science to understanding the impact of a warming world on plant life, here’s what the Ecosystems Mission Area does.
The judge asked lawyers how a suit by Charleston, S.C., claiming oil companies misled people about climate risks, might be affected by a Trump executive order blasting cases like these.
Meteorologists and climate researchers aim to run a livestream for 100 hours in protest of the Trump administration’s cuts to weather and climate research.
Nigerian authorities said they had expected flooding as part of the rainy season but were surprised by the extent of the damage.
The 24 awards would have gone to a range of companies trying in novel ways to reduce the pollution that is heating the planet.
To view rivers only as sources and drains is to reduce them to base functions rather than to see them as the life-giving, world-shaping forces they are.
Oil and gas companies are facing a wave of new lawsuits over their role in global warming.
An energy company plans to revive pipelines that were blocked on environmental grounds, as President Trump pushes states on fossil fuel projects.
Glacial ice will melt for centuries even if global temperatures stop rising now, according to new research.
Experts said it is the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming.
The complaint argues that orders aimed at increasing American fossil fuel production infringe on the fundamental rights of young people.
The question for the justices was whether an agency had complied with a federal law by issuing a 3,600-page report on the impact of a proposed railway in Utah.
The National Weather Service warned of “dangerously hot conditions” from Friday through Sunday.
The city is suing oil companies over global warming. Trump says lawsuits like these threaten national security. The judge wants to hear what both sides think.
After working in the petrochemical industry, he devoted himself to environmental activism — and to creating an inclusive movement that looked “more like America.”
Luciano Lliuya, agricultor y guía turístico, alegaba que Huaraz, su ciudad en los Andes, corría el riesgo de desaparecer ante el deshielo de los glaciares ocasionado por las emisiones de una empresa energética alemana.
The judges ruled that German civil law could be used to hold companies accountable for the worldwide effects of their emissions.
Sebastião Salgado, a renowned photojournalist who died last week, spent decades capturing an Amazon that is fast disappearing.
Paying closer attention to what was coming out of my faucet changed the way I see the world.
For decades, California has been able to adopt its own emissions regulations, effectively setting the bar for carmakers nationally. And for just as long, Republicans have resented the state’s outsize influence.
Hay un tipo de importación que nadie desea en California: las aguas residuales sin tratar que fluyen de México al sur del estado. El problema se remonta a un siglo atrás, pero ha empeorado en los últimos años.
Large amounts of untreated sewage flow daily from Mexico into Imperial Beach, Calif. That has closed beaches and sickened residents.
Battery-operated vehicles were a mainstay more than a hundred years ago, but only a few still exist — one happens to be in Jay Leno’s garage.
A charter boat captain used pesticide-laced bait and a shotgun to target dolphins interfering with his clients’ fishing lines, prosecutors said.
Readers respond to a video about three Yale professors who are leaving for Canada. Also: A West Point book ban; cooperation on the environment.
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.
Moscow wants victories before its Monday holiday.