The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to produce up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade. Critics say it could endanger people and marine life.
Millions of people in the Persian Gulf depend on desalination plants for their water, but recent fighting has highlighted the system's vulnerability.
The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer and other ailments.
Proposals include transferring a supercomputer to the University of Wyoming and shifting a space weather lab to a private company.
A look at the war in Iran’s effects on global energy markets, two activists whose Sierra Club memberships were revoked, and more climate and environmental news.
A lawsuit argues that the state’s regulations would illegally force a rapid transition to electric vehicles.
Brian Joondeph, a Colorado-based ophthalmologist and political commentator, has not published peer-reviewed research on air pollution science.
Erin McGuire ran a research network that studied how to get healthy food to marginalized populations around the world.
On “The Interview,” the writer Rebecca Solnit shared her perspective on tackling climate change and emphasized that it is not too late to take action.
Iran has accused the United States of bombing a desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The country was already facing a severe water shortage.
The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.
The writer and activist Rebecca Solnit on how political change happens and taking the long view.
In many states, homeowners with excellent credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area.
Immense dark plumes of smoke enveloped Tehran after the Israeli military expanded attacks on energy infrastructure.
What do declining birthrates really mean for the future? Readers respond to a front-page news article.
One year in, assessing budget cuts to federal climate and science jobs.
A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility.
Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.
A man who has done voice-overs for the M.T.A. for years is now speaking to riders of the Roosevelt Island Tram.
The battle to lower costs has reached the State Capitol, where concerns have emerged about the fate of a 2019 climate law and its ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.
More than two dozen contributors to the manual criticized the deletion of a chapter on climate science by the Federal Judicial Center.
The mountains’ resort towns have reached an inflection point, facing changes that threaten their cultures and even survival, as demand for short-term rentals reshapes the landscape.
The whooping cranes’ fragile recovery highlights the need for renewed commitment to safeguarding America’s endangered species.
Leticia Carvalho heads a global authority that’s been struggling to set rules for a decade. President Trump’s aggressive push on ocean mining makes her task more urgent.
Greenpeace has said the verdict could bankrupt it. The lawsuit was over the group’s role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Simultaneous emergencies in different parts of the world could stop countries from sharing ground crews and equipment, new research warns.
The result marks the first time the Greens have won a British parliamentary by-election and signals the frustration of left-leaning voters with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Republican-led states had accused financial firms of colluding against coal producers. Vanguard also agreed not to push for action to fight climate change.
A major funder of the Earthshot Prize has been linked to the convicted sex offender.
Scientists studying data collected over more than three decades found accelerating losses. Their research offers clues about the causes.
Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.
Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed.
It feels as if our political institutions have abandoned the climate, but the clean energy economy is still growing.
We talk to the author of a new book about why the problem is so hard to solve.
We are only at the beginning of climate destabilization, in which winter weather grows more erratic and extreme.
But the case against the California attorney general, prompted by his lawsuit over Exxon’s plastic recycling program, can proceed in Texas federal court.
The case could have significant bearing on a range of other lawsuits brought against the fossil fuel industry by cities and states across the country.
There’s mounting evidence that extreme weather is making some everyday stuff more expensive. But how that plays out for you depends several factors.
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong describes America’s shifting relationship with polar research amid the threat of rising sea levels.
The move appeared to undercut the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime campaigner against mercury pollution.
Mi colega acaba de pasar dos meses en un buque rompehielos de investigación. Cambió su perspectiva de nuestro planeta de un modo que no esperaba.
As the Trump administration cracks down on climate change activism, members of environmental groups like Extinction Rebellion fear they are being targeted.
Research has pointed to the dangers of heavier and wetter snowfall, even as the number of snowy days decreases overall in California’s Sierra Nevada.
My colleague just spent two months on a research icebreaker. It changed his perspective on the world in ways he didn’t expect.
New A.I. sites could drive up your power bill. We look at possible solutions.
The Trump administration is threatening to leave the influential agency unless it stops publishing its annual road map for cutting planet-warming emissions.
None of the main research on the voyage of the Araon was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a sign of the difficult times for American science.
But stay tuned: We’ve still got more to share about this Antarctic expedition, and the next ones scientists are already planning.
Senior officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to announce the move on Friday, according to people briefed on the matter.
Across the country, Democratic-led states are accelerating their initiatives to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Their role just became much more important.
Environmental and health groups sued the E.P.A. over its elimination of the endangerment finding. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court.
The company said it would encourage companies that operated chargers to install them in neighborhoods where its drivers lived and work.
Methane emissions from wetlands are rising faster than those from industrial sources, prompting concerns about a climate feedback loop.
In the Lost Science series, scientists whose jobs or funding have been cut by the Trump administration tell their stories.
A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for the contamination on Monday.
Readers reflect on the passing of the civil rights leader. Also: Power serving the public; climate change and gravity.
Carnival can generate more than 1,000 tons of trash every year. A coalition of nonprofit groups, city officials and scientists has a plan to clean it up.
The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say.
Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at red lights.
A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles.
The battle is expected to reach the Supreme Court, which is far more conservative today than it was when the measure was established.
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong has spent more than a month on a South Korean ship in Antarctica with nearly 40 scientists from around the world. Here’s everything he eats in a day.
The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a “third-party operator.”
Readers respond to an editorial about the legalization and regulation of marijuana. Also: The Trump administration’s attack on climate science.
El último fenómeno de El Niño, en 2022 y 2023, fue uno de los principales impulsores de temperaturas mundiales récord, ya que la atmósfera absorbió calor del océano.
Louise Yeung relishes the intricacies of policy debates and the magic of rom-coms. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat and two snails.
The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. This ends the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.
If you’re a writer or filmmaker hoping to create a hell on earth, might as well start with the most famous city in the world.
Some issues in the document, which is issued every four years, had become politically inconvenient, former officials said.
The state has led the country in adopting electric cars and reducing gas use, but it now faces much higher gas prices as oil companies plan to shut down refineries.
The weekly column that focused on inequality in the city ran for 14 years, from Occupy Wall Street to Zohran Mamdani. Now it comes to a close.
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.