Although Donald Trump has opposed policies that favor electric cars, if he becomes president he could ease regulatory scrutiny of Tesla or protect lucrative credits and subsidies.
A storage facility in Norway built to safeguard crop diversity recently received more than 30,000 samples as concerns grow about climate change and food insecurity.
The former president says he wants “clean air and clean water,” but he has rolled back environmental rules and dismissed the scientific consensus on climate change.
Dayenu, a nonprofit group, is mobilizing Jews around a threat that organizers warn every walk of life on earth must confront: climate change.
Renting is quickly becoming a better way for many people to enjoy high-risk places with much less financial baggage.
Perhaps more than any other federal agency, the one responsible for protecting air, water and public health is a target for Donald Trump and his allies.
“Tree islands” deep in a sea of grass once helped Native Americans elude capture by U.S. troops. A tour of these refuges reveals a rich culture and a new risk: rising water.
A continuación te mostramos cómo se comparan con los productos convencionales.
They emit harmful pollutants, which makes good ventilation crucial.
They play an essential role in supporting life on Earth, but many species are in decline, researchers found.
Kamala Harris calls global warming an “existential threat.” Donald Trump dismisses it as a “scam.”
A utility sends phone alerts when wind power is cheap. A builder sells “zero bill” houses. They’re among several experiments to redefine how people value electricity.
Here’s the story of Squilla, a rare North Atlantic right whale mother, and her firstborn. To help their species continue, they’d have to navigate an increasingly dangerous ocean.
Museum and gallery shows in Seattle, New York, England and beyond are engaging visitors’ hearts and minds through all of their senses.
The body’s cooling defenses fail at lower “wet bulb” temperatures than scientists had estimated.
A third of state residents use private wells, and about four out of 10 wells tested after Hurricane Helene weren’t safe, highlighting the risks of extreme weather for millions of Americans.
Environmentalists and one of the world’s biggest oil companies support Washington State’s cap on carbon. But voters are deciding whether to repeal the law amid concerns about energy costs.
Museums, galleries and other art institutions are looking for measures to reduce their environmental footprints.
Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases.
In recent decades, fast-growing blazes were responsible for an outsize share of fire-related devastation, scientists found using satellite data.
Altering the DNA of living organisms could be an early step in re-engineering the natural world to help curb climate change.
An annual assessment by the world body tracks the gulf between what countries have vowed to do and what they’ve actually achieved.
The measure, which echoes plans in Scotland and Wales, aims to protect young people’s health and reduce environmental damage.
Mi momento viral reveló una experiencia compartida de ansiedad climática entre generaciones. Es hora de que la canalicemos hacia la acción.
When it comes to the climate crisis, sometimes feelings are as important as facts, even for meteorologists.
Much of the food we eat is grown with synthetic fertilizer, which is a huge source of climate change. But now, a seed with DNA-modified bacteria is reducing the amount of synthetic fertilizer that farmers have to apply to their fields. Eric Lipton...
By tweaking the DNA of bacteria, scientists aim to cut the use of chemical fertilizers that are worsening global warming. Some worry about unintended consequences.
My viral moment revealed a shared experience of climate anxiety across generations. It’s time that we channel it into action.
Destruction arrives not via solemn news reports but in a barrage of digital scraps — first-person views of what it looks like when the world changes.
Cuando se inundó deliberadamente una enorme extensión de tierra en la costa de Somerset, un político local tachó el proyecto de “ridículo”. Pero los resultados han sido transformadores.
El estancamiento de la colaboración entre científicos occidentales y rusos está retrasando los esfuerzos para monitorear el Ártico, el cual se está calentando cuatro veces más rápido que el promedio mundial.
Big tech companies say A.I. can help solve climate change, even as it’s driving up their emissions and raising doubts about their climate goals.
We explain how the country is responding in three different ways to disasters.
Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. The stalled work threatens to leave the West without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up.
Here’s how they stack up against their conventional counterparts.
Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop.
When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative.
Delegados de todo el mundo se reúnen en Cali en la que se espera que sea la mayor conferencia de la ONU sobre biodiversidad de la historia.
Delegates from around the world are meeting in Colombia in what is expected to be the biggest U.N. biodiversity conference in history.
Deadly landslides are increasing around the world. But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial.
We’ve got tips to make the holiday more sustainable, and maybe more fun, too.
La sequía en Sudamérica, ya en su segundo año, está deshidratando el Amazonas y ha provocado incendios forestales, cortes de electricidad y racionamiento de agua en varios países del continente.
Se acerca el invierno. ¿Pero traerá nieve? La NOAA anunció el jueves su previsión invernal anual.
Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up.
By learning the secrets of 2,000-year-old cement, researchers are trying to devise greener, more durable modern options.
The Supreme Court’s decision to not temporarily block an E.P.A. rule this week signals ‘rising influence’ of Justice Barrett, one analyst said.
Eoghan Daltun rewilded his land in West Cork and wants more of Ireland to do the same.
Some 90 percent of the economy in this coastal California region relies on visitors. But overtourism, the high cost of living and most worrisome, the effects of global warming, create a future of uncertainty.
La demanda de energía se ha acelerado debido a las grandes inversiones que las empresas tecnológicas han realizado en inteligencia artificial, la cual requiere mucha más potencia que otros negocios tecnológicos más convencionales.
Winter is coming. But will it bring snow? NOAA announced its annual winter outlook on Thursday.
Hundreds of Times readers wrote to us and shared their experiences of installing heat pumps, including the good, the bad and the daunting.
Carbon emissions from forest fires increased more than 60 percent globally over the past two decades, according to a new study.
Los investigadores que estudian los delfines mulares encontraron poliéster y otros plásticos en todos los animales que analizaron.
Mary Barra, G.M.’s chief executive, said that the company had fixed battery-manufacturing problems and that its electric vehicles would soon be profitable.
Food production is concentrated in too few countries, many of which face water shortages, the researchers said.
It was a provisional victory for the Biden administration, whose climate initiatives have been stymied. A challenge to the rule at issue is still moving through a lower court.
Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for artificial intelligence and other businesses.
Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found polyester and other plastics in every animal they tested.
The Sunshine State is losing its security and safety, but it’s avoidable.
A surge in power use worldwide could make it harder for nations to slash emissions and keep global warming in check.
On the west coast of Florida, a town built to weather hurricanes hosted more than 2,000 people during Hurricane Milton. Could communities like this help shape Florida’s future?
These productions are grappling with climate change, reproductive rights, the Arab Spring and accusations of sexual assault.
Millions of Americans, many poor and vulnerable, live in mobile and manufactured homes. When catastrophe strikes, they’re often on their own.
I wish you could see what happens to the magnificent colors of berry and bird and flower in the slanting autumn light.
The 2008 coal ash spill was among the biggest industrial disasters in U.S. history. In a new book, Jared Sullivan recounts the accident, the lawsuits and the lasting damage.
Food is the springboard to talk about a host of issues, including climate, economic justice, public health and labor.
Como escritor y artista me doy cuenta de que hay formas efectivas de transformar el modo en el que abordamos la emergencia climática.
These are some of our favorites from among more than 800 submissions in response to our request for variations on traditional letters.
Much of what’s still undeveloped offers some the best defenses against climate change.
A second Trump administration would be expected to shred climate policies. California officials are devising ways to insulate its environmental regulations.
Readers discuss recent hurricanes and actions that citizens can take. Also: Jack Smith’s timing; the Supreme Court and the campaign; therapy as health care; a Trumpian character.
Greenhouse gas emissions added rain, intensified winds and doubled the storm’s potential property damage, scientists estimated.
We cover each presidential candidate’s climate policies.
It’s not indoctrination that’s keeping a majority of younger voters out of the Republican column.
Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do they manage it? Scientists built a flight chamber to find out.
Millions of Americans have moved to the Sunshine State over the last several decades, only to see Florida’s future collide with climate change.
The lawsuit alleges that the utility knew of the dangers of burning fossil fuels and misled its customers.
Travel is an opportunity. It’s an economic driver. But it also contributes to global warming. So a Travel editor went back to school to explore the moral dilemma it poses.
Un famoso explorador estaba seguro de que el hielo ocultaba algo profundo. Noventa años después, los científicos han presentado las pruebas más contundentes hasta ahora de que tenía razón.
The results from an important ongoing assessment look grim. But the survey is often misunderstood.
A medida que el cambio climático facilita la proliferación de mosquitos en muchos lugares, la enfermedad del virus del Nilo Occidental se perfila como una de las mayores amenazas de salud.
In his next documentary, Michael P. Nash takes on A.I. and how it might be used to address environmental issues.
MacDill Air Force Base, south of Tampa, was swamped by Helene’s storm surge, and may see worse flooding from Milton.
MacDill Air Force Base south of Tampa was swamped by Helene’s storm surge, and may see worse flooding from Milton.
Es un problema relativamente raro, pero el riesgo es real. Esto es lo que tienes que saber.
We need to be honest about what has become the most expensive and deadliest kind of natural disaster in the United States.
How did Hurricane Milton, and Hurricane Helene before it, get so strong, so fast? Raymond Zhong, a reporter focusing on climate and environmental issues for The New York Times, explains.
E.V. batteries that are submerged in saltwater can catch fire after the floods subside, but experts say it’s a rarity.
Dado que las olas de calor en el mar aumentan con el cambio climático, cabe esperar frecuentes episodios de intensificación rápida.
In cooler times, a similarly rare storm over the Southeast would have delivered less rain and weaker winds, a team of scientists concluded in an analysis.
A famed explorer was sure the ice hid something profound. Ninety years later, scientists have put forth the strongest evidence yet that he was right.
Después de 40 años de carrera, John Morales ha pasado de esforzarse por ser un meteorólogo “no alarmista” a ser alguien que admite horror ante las crecientes amenazas del calentamiento global.
John Morales, who has forecast weather for decades, went viral after choking up on air while discussing Hurricane Milton.
In her last newsletter for the Times, a Climate Forward reporter reflects on the intertwined problems of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Milton grew into a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day as it crossed warm oceans across the Gulf of Mexico.
Readers reflect on the devastation, the recovery and climate havens. Also: An ex-hostage’s plea; the women who accuse Donald Trump; a Trump rally.
Fewer than 10 percent of the agency’s disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities.
A medida que una sequía seca tramos del río Amazonas, Brasil recurre al dragado para tratar de mantener el flujo de alimentos, medicinas y personas a lo largo de la superautopista acuática.
The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.
Hurricane Helene has reminded us. Climate change has stacked the deck against all of us.
School closures and traumatic experiences could affect children long after schools reopen. Experts worry that similar scenarios are happening with much more frequency because of climate change.
What it’s like to get the neglected disease.
We need to act as a single, unified force to find ways to strike a lasting balance with our natural world.
As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway.
Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted from one of the world’s most polluting industries.
Los expertos ofrecen varias recomendaciones para que el proceso de recuperación sea exitoso. Esto es lo que hay que hacer y lo que hay que evitar.
After Helene, it may be time to rethink how to communicate the risks posed by storms, especially extreme rain.
Experts offered plenty of advice about ways to make the disaster-recovery process work. Here’s what to do and what to avoid.
City officials have refused to provide estimates of when the devastated water system in Asheville, N.C., will be back in operation.
Republican-led states and industry groups argued that the Environmental Protection Agency had moved too fast and imposed onerous regulations.
A severe overnight rainstorm in the Balkans left several towns and villages flooded. Record summer temperatures had caused a drought that hampered the absorption of floodwaters.
Who was behind a national campaign to ban geoengineering? One reporter went down a few rabbit holes to find out.
In a new weekly feature of our Climate Forward newsletter, we’re covering the vast amount of investment, ingenuity and scientific expertise that are going toward stopping climate change.
Readers respond to the special counsel Jack Smith’s filing. Also: The pain of IUD insertions; food and the environment; A.I. and the patient.
The National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C., sweep together data from around the world to help track Earth’s warming.
Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.
El objetivo del Tropical Forests Forever Facility es pagar a los países con bajos índices de deforestación 4 dólares por cada hectárea de selva en pie que pueda identificarse mediante imágenes satelitales cada año.
Brazil is proposing a fund that would pay countries to protect tropical forests that are crucial to curbing climate change. It would generate returns, too.
Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from cropland, and help birds and bees.
Tim Walz said climate change is real, but boasted about high U.S. levels of oil and gas production. JD Vance called climate change “weird science.”
Extreme climate was supposed to shock us into action. What happened?
In response to concerns over climate change and plummeting biodiversity, a shift is afoot in the city’s parks. Manicured is out; rugged is in.
As storms intensify, so do the legal clashes with insurers, aid agencies and others over compensation, rebuilding and even scams.
Research on hundreds of tropical storms finds that mortality keeps rising for more than a decade afterward, for reasons you might not expect.
The exodus of the young means high-risk towns could enter a population death spiral.
As Hurricane Helene made climate change an early focus of the vice-presidential debate, the running mates quickly demonstrated the stark differences between the parties on the issue.
The worst damage from Hurricane Helene came in areas that were expected to be relatively immune to the effects of climate change.
Damage went beyond downed power lines. Hundreds of substations went out after the storm. Getting them back online is difficult.
Los huracanes suelen debilitarse en tierra. Pero si el suelo ya está húmedo por lluvias anteriores, los ciclones pueden recibir un impulso adicional.
The legislation, which would weaken federal environmental reviews for certain semiconductor manufacturing projects, has divided Democrats.
Hurricanes typically weaken over land. But if the ground is already wet from earlier rains, storms can receive an extra jolt that keeps them churning.
The Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last surviving coal-burning power station in a country that birthed the Industrial Revolution and fed it with coal.
Some leaders insist that the global clean energy transition will happen with or without the United States.
As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the risk of hazards like hurricanes, floods, wildfires and dangerous heat.
No one has ever restarted an American nuclear reactor that was seemingly closed for good. But with electricity demand spiking, interest is growing.
Miners aim to meet a growing demand for emissions-free energy, though a failure to clean up old sites haunts the industry.
Few in Britain will mourn the passing of coal, but it’s hard not to feel a little nervous about what, at its heart, is an experiment, one fraught with danger.
The city has famously delicious drinking water. Forced repairs to the Delaware Aqueduct may lessen its quality.
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.