The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years.
The “blob” of hotter ocean water that killed sea lions and other marine life in 2014 and 2015 may become permanent.
Twenty months into his term, California’s governor faces a pandemic and an environmental crisis. He speaks to Kara Swisher about his plan to save the “state of resistance.”
The proposal would speed up the state’s efforts to fight global warming at a time when California is being battered by wildfires, heat waves and other consequences of climate change.
The agency’s new assessment directly contradicts federal scientists’ conclusions five years ago that chlorpyrifos can stunt brain development in young children.
A new study finds that what used to be a rare weather double whammy has been occurring more frequently in recent decades because of climate change.
Las temperaturas extremas y las sequías más severas, resultado del cambio climático causado por el hombre, han creado un mundo que está listo para arder.
Also this week, learning to live with smoke. And, climate experts talk about the future.
There’s a huge fire debt in the West that must be paid off, experts say, either through controlled burns or out-of-control blazes. Either way, that means smoke.
Under international pressure to do more to address global warming, Xi Jinping made a surprise commitment to drastically reduce emissions. Now comes the hard part.
Court losses are piling up for President Trump's environmental deregulation agenda. But a second term in the White House could help them stick.
The president claims you have to make a choice, but you don’t.
The Times spoke to two dozen experts who said decisions made now would spell the difference between a difficult future and something far worse.
President Xi Jinping pledged, among other goals, to achieve “carbon neutrality by 2060.” It was China’s boldest promise yet on climate change.
A reader writes that the “pretzel-like contortions to agree to quickly filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat are appalling.” Also: It’s about the makeup; wildfires and climate.
An optimistic climate documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson argues for the healing power of soil, which could offer a solution to the climate crisis.
A group of more than 60 donors is urging Joe Biden to renounce advisers with ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Starting with the Big Blowup of 1910, the U.S. Forest Service’s strategy mostly has been to put out fires as fast as possible. With climate change and shifting populations, we’re losing that war.
Starting with the Big Blowup of 1910, the U.S. Forest Service’s strategy mostly has been to put out fires as fast as possible. With climate change and shifting populations, we’re losing that war.
Starting with the Big Blowup of 1910, the U.S. Forest Service’s strategy mostly has been to put out fires as fast as possible. With climate change and shifting populations, we’re losing that war.
Only 2012 had less sea ice coverage, scientists say, as climate change takes its toll in the region.
In secretly recorded meetings, executives with the Pebble Mine project said the operation could run nine times longer than outlined in their permit filings.
While BP and other European companies invest billions in renewable energy, Exxon and Chevron are committed to fossil fuels and betting on moonshots.
Metronome’s digital clock in Manhattan has been reprogrammed to illustrate a critical window for action to prevent the effects of global warming from becoming irreversible.
The engineering and land management that enabled the state’s tremendous growth have left it more vulnerable to climate shocks — and those shocks are getting worse.
The engineering and land management that enabled the state’s tremendous growth have left it more vulnerable to climate shocks — and those shocks are getting worse.
Australia’s South Coast was hammered by last year’s fires. Now it’s time to prepare for another fire season.
Americans may be finding some common sense about building homes in vulnerable areas.
A Times Magazine series examines how climate change will force millions worldwide to move. Recently, Meridith Kohut photographed people on the front lines of this shift. In America.
Heavy downpours can bring destructive mudslides now, or in years to come.
Los incendios no solían ser un tema en las campañas presidenciales. Hasta ahora: Biden está posicionando el asunto para atraer votantes preocupados por el cambio climático.
A rezoning proposal that has been floating around is finally up for city review. This kind of development is just what New York needs now.
Mar abierto y lluvia, en lugar de hielo y nieve, son condiciones cada vez más típicas de la región, según un nuevo estudio científico.
Staggering rain totals, fueled by a warming atmosphere that can hold more moisture, are being recorded from the storm.
But the changes could backfire, experts say, pushing more insurers to stop offering coverage in areas where fire risk is rising because of climate change.
Wildfires are still scorching the West as a hurricane hits the South
Extreme temperatures and more severe droughts, the result of human-caused climate change, have created a world that’s ready to burn.
The fast-moving fires have wiped out critical populations of endangered species and incinerated native habitats that may take years to recover.
Extreme temperatures and more severe droughts, the result of human-caused climate change, have created a world that’s ready to burn.
Maybe the wildfires will finally force America to recognize that.
Scientists say that climate change, which has also contributed to the wildfires on the West Coast, helped intensify a storm that is unleashing a deluge in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
An issue that has always been on the sidelines in presidential campaigns may be coming to the forefront as Joseph Biden seeks to cast climate change, not violence, as the real and immediate threat to the suburbs.
Basic firefighting techniques have changed little in decades — but fires themselves are now changing as the world warms, complicating an already perilous profession.
We have to adapt to it, too.
Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson dismiss scientists’ determination that climate change is a key culprit in West Coast wildfires.
Scientists know climate change has made storms wetter. There’s evidence that it makes some slower, too. It all adds up to trouble when they hit land.
One reader cites an ad that the president signed in 2009 warning about the perils of climate change. Others criticize him for holding large indoor rallies.
Barely halfway through what one meteorologist called a “hyperactive” season, there is only one entry left on the 21-name list used for storms.
Barely halfway through what one meteorologist called a “hyperactive” season, there is only one entry left on the 21-name list used for storms.
Countries have made insufficient progress on international goals designed to halt a catastrophic slide, a new report found.
In California, the president blamed forest management for the fires: This is your morning tip sheet.
Millions will be displaced in the coming decades by fires, hurricanes, extreme heat and rising seas. Where will they go?
In his new book, the journalist and co-founder of Vox argues that dramatic population growth could revitalize the nation.
The president visited California after weeks of silence on its wildfires and blamed the crisis only on poor forest management, not climate change. “I don’t think science knows” what is happening, he said.
President Trump and Joe Biden can both point to advantages in our new poll of Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Open water and rain, rather than ice and snow, are becoming typical of the region, a new study has found.
Eight months after blazes devastated a wide swath of Australia, the most battered communities are trying to burn their way to safety as another fire season approaches.
What are we supposed to do with all this fury?
A president who has mocked climate change and pushed policies that accelerate it is set to be briefed on the scorched earth and ash-filled skies that experts say are the predictable result.
At a meeting last year, industry leaders contradicted public claims that emissions of climate-warming methane are under control
The northwest part of the state, usually much wetter, has dried out this year, enabling flames driven by powerful winds to “just explode down these canyons.”
Si hace una década el cambio climático era una noción algo abstracta, hoy es sumamente real para los californianos que huyen de los incendios forestales y están asfixiados por una manta de humo, en el peor año de incendios que se ha registrado.
Readers urge action on climate change, worry about the economic impact on Napa wineries and praise police officers helping with evacuations.
A pattern of building and rebuilding has increased the destructiveness of the fires ravaging the American West.
We’re choking on smoke and staring out at Martian-red skies in a world becoming uninhabitable.
Wildfire smoke spreads misery, including health problems, far beyond fire zones. We have key facts and tips.
If climate change was a somewhat abstract notion a decade ago, today it is all too real for Californians fleeing wildfires and smothered in a blanket of smoke, the worst year of fires on record.
Climate forecasters said the pattern would affect weather across the globe.
Against the backdrop of climate change, the delicate underwater ecology of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands is hurting from declines in otters.
The blazes scorching the West highlight the urgency of rethinking fire management policies, as climate change threatens to make things worse.
Once a reliable vaccine exists, it won’t stop the pandemic unless most people are willing to take it. Economics provides a solution.
Also this week: They led the E.P.A. as Republicans. Now, they’re backing Biden.
Trump seeks to muddy the waters on his climate record: This is your morning tip sheet.
A report commissioned by President Trump’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued dire warnings about climate change’s impact on financial markets.
President Trump traveled to Florida to declare himself “a great environmentalist,” extending a moratorium on offshore oil drilling that his administration had moved to end.
As fires spread through California during a global pandemic, read some of our past coverage about what’s causing them and what might help contain them.
When community members know more about how to protect their homes and businesses, they become more resilient to disaster.
A conservationist argues for a more proactive approach in the face of decline. Also: If you’re a morning person.
Since finding the first crater in 2014, Russian scientists have documented 16 more explosions in the Arctic caused by gas trapped in thawing permafrost.
A majority support outright bans on construction in disaster-prone areas, as well as paying people to move, researchers say — policies that local governments have been reluctant to adopt.
A high-tech sensor network brought me closer to the natural cycles of my environment.
There are lessons here for Joe Biden.
Also this week, a quiz: How well can you gauge your personal contribution to climate change?
Insurers, facing huge losses, have been pulling back from fire-prone areas across California. “The marketplace has largely collapsed,” an advocate for counties in the state said.
A census of the world’s glacial lakes shows there are more than there used to be, and their water volume is growing.
The agency weakened Obama-era rules meant to keep metals and other pollution out of rivers and streams, saving industry tens of millions of dollars.
Because William Blake was right: Every living thing is holy.
We survived Hurricane Laura, but the Gulf Coast needs better surge protections for the next one.
Virus, heat, fire, blackouts. It’s just another summer in the nation’s most populous state.
Redlining helped reshape the urban landscape of U.S. cities. It also left communities of color far more vulnerable to rising heat.
Earth is overheating. This year is poised to be one of the hottest ever. Millions are already feeling the pain, but the agony of extreme heat is profoundly unequal across the globe.
Los científicos estudian el clima extremo en una provincia de Argentina para comprender su funcionamiento y aprender algo sobre los monstruosos fenómenos climáticos del futuro.
New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how.
Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works — and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.
Climate change and neglect have brought the mammoth structure at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe to the brink of calamity — a crisis prefigured in the dam’s troubling colonial history.
Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.
Nearly twice as many properties may be susceptible to flood damage than previously thought, according to a new effort to map the danger.
As the pandemic rages, the world is still far from getting global warming under control.
Our global climate reporter suggests some smart reads on how they're related.
A keen ear could hear the theme of global warming starting to swell in popular music all across the dial in the last two decades as global temperatures started to rise.
NASA's new ICESat-2 satellite provides the most detailed look yet of where the continent is losing and gaining ice.
Here are 10 big environmental victories — and 10 big failures.
If the 50th anniversary of Earth Day has inspired you to finally read a book about climate change, we’re here to help you find just the right one.