Executives from top automakers were invited to attend the announcement at the White House on Wednesday.
The floods and landslides that have killed more than 1,350 people in recent weeks are a grim reminder of the risks of a warming planet.
A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline.
The scores aimed to predict a property’s risk from a fires, floods and storms, but some in the real estate industry as well as homeowners have called them inaccurate.
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.
Although nature is sometimes very fragile, decades of conservation rhetoric have perhaps overstated that fragility.
Prime Minister Mark Carney reached a tentative deal with the province as part of his program to curb the country’s economic dependence on the United States.
The city’s new climate budgeting program is investing billions in keeping the city cool as the climate gets hotter.
Oil and gas firms were supposed to start reducing methane, a powerful driver of climate change. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement.
Durante siglos, los eruditos se han sentido desconcertados por el movimiento de las figuras monolíticas de Rapa Nui. Un estudio reciente demostró una técnica plausible para su traslado.
Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.
What’s a worst-case scenario for hurricane flooding in New York City? Our reporter Hilary Howard, who covers the environment in the region, explores how bad it could get as climate change powers increasingly extreme rainfall and devastating storm surges.
The president’s energy strategy is projected to generate more pollution, but so far production has not risen significantly and price drops have been modest, analysts say.
Farmers in Northwest China confront their drying landscape by planting trees as coal burns relentlessly nearby. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: carbon.
California and eight other states have outdated restrictions on building nuclear power plants.
This year’s U.N. climate negotiations were seen by activists as a letdown. But a Times reporter found some encouraging signs on the ground in the Brazilian Amazon.
Heavy rain would make a hurricane catastrophic. See the neighborhoods that could face the worst flooding.
Los científicos indicaron que el cambio climático podría convertir el centro de Vietnam en un punto crítico mundial de tormentas destructivas. Este año parece haberlo demostrado.
Scientists suggested that climate change could make central Vietnam a global hot spot for destructive storms. This year has seemed to prove the point.
After Oakland, Calif., reneged on a contract allowing coal shipments, a Kentucky company went under. Courts say the city must now pay hundreds of millions of dollars.
Una nueva generación de chocolateros artesanales de Brasil está creando tabletas con “identidad”. Y también están ayudando a conservar la selva.
The final agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The story begins in the 1970s.
The Trump administration this week moved to weaken the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, two bedrock laws, among other deregulatory moves.
After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has lead to years of environmental crisis.
The United States has retreated on climate. China, the only superpower at COP30 and the world leader in clean energy, is not filling the void.
A new generation of craft chocolatiers in Brazil is making bars with “identity.” They’re helping to sustain the forest, too.
The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production.
New research shows that climate change is beginning to erode home prices in the most disaster-prone areas of the United States. Here’s what to know.
Delegates were evacuated from the conference venue, where thousands from nearly 200 countries had gathered.
Just outside Belém, the Amazonian city where the world is meeting to discuss climate change, electricity is a very recent arrival.
“There was no warning, no conversation,” said Jane Clougherty, an environmental health scientist, who had a federal grant canceled earlier this year.
Four proposed rules could make it easier to drill for oil or harvest timber in areas where endangered species live.
Viewers seem baffled by viral videos of homes left to tumble into the ocean. But this is how we approach a growing range of “stranded” assets.
Extreme heat causes cows to produce less milk. This poses problems in cheese-obsessed Italy, especially as it tries to meet growing demand for favorites like burrata.
A climate ‘shock’ in the insurance market has started to affect home prices in areas most exposed to wildfires and hurricanes, new research shows.
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
In a struggling area of Lincoln, a program pays for repairs and energy efficiency upgrades in rental buildings. In return, landlords must keep rents affordable.
A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete, connecting reservations and bridging a gap in the Midwest.
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
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Two new settlements could change how the beef industry markets its products and require that it provide proof for its pledges to lower emissions.
A Trump administration proposal to allow more exploration for oil and gas violates environmental laws, the groups said.
While China is selling clean energy to the world, America is pushing oil and gas.
The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.
Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly.
The proposal could strip federal protections from most U.S. wetlands, some of which feed drinking water systems.
David Richardson had been on the job for six months. FEMA employees questioned his ability to lead the agency.
A small group of countries is aiming to impose a fee on private jets and premium commercial fares. The revenue would help nations adapt to warming.
Somini Sengupta, nuestra reportera internacional especializada en clima, responde tus preguntas sobre ciencia y política desde la COP30 en Brasil.
As the talks continue, some countries are pushing for a detailed “road map” for a global transition away from oil, gas and coal.
Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, floods and other extreme weather linked to climate change.
You asked Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter, about the science and the politics. She responded from COP30 in Brazil.
Algunas empresas están ofreciendo sistemas de purificación del aire muy necesarios para refugiarse del esmog en una de las ciudades con más polución del mundo. La mayoría no puede costearlos.
Women who face long-term heat exposure in workplaces and homes are finding it takes a heavy toll on their health and income.
Officials have yet to grasp the magnitude of heat-related deaths, let alone effectively deal with the problem, public health experts and scientists say.
This summit is unlike any of its predecessors in at least one significant way: The Indigenous presence is palpable and strong.
Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.
Paul Kingsnorth on technology’s war against human nature.
Companies are offering much-needed, but expensive, air purification systems to shelter from the smog in one of the world’s most polluted cities.
The decision to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s ecologically sensitive North Slope has the support of the state’s governor and senators.
Opponents of a natural gas pipeline approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York noted that the project would benefit a client of the prominent law firm where her husband works.
The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?
But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis.
Many business leaders are skipping the annual United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, or are attending events in other cities.
The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.
A plan to sustainably manage the shrinking waterway could soon be up to the Trump administration — or eventually the Supreme Court.
The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”
Las personas con paneles solares en su tejado recuperaron el suministro eléctrico casi de inmediato. “Todo mi barrio se beneficia”, dijo un residente.
En la cumbre del clima de este año, Estados Unidos está ausente y Europa tiene dificultades. Pero los países emergentes están adoptando las energías renovables gracias a un exceso de equipamiento barato.
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
La cumbre climática anual de la ONU se realiza este año en Brasil y se distingue, sobre todo, por las ausencias en la lista de invitados.
We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.
Politicians, oil giants and climate activists hang on his every word. The Trump administration has blasted him. How did Fatih Birol get so big?
This year’s U.N. climate talks are being held in Brazil and, so far, they’ve been noteworthy for who isn’t attending.
“Ask a Correspondent” will take your questions to Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter.
Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said.
The contentious proposal, previously rebuffed by state regulators who expressed environmental concerns, was deemed acceptable on Friday.
“All we have to do is look outside,” one delegate said. “The sea rises, the coral dies.”
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
Como el cambio climático ha contribuido a subir los precios del cacao, las empresas están cambiando las recetas golosinas de forma sutil.
David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter, describes the struggles of the Sierra Club, one of the largest environmental groups in the U.S. The group has lost about 60 percent of its supporters since 2020.
The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration.
Los discursos del día de apertura contrastaron con la postura del presidente Trump, quien ha calificado el calentamiento global de “estafa”.
Diplomats and leaders gather on the edge of the Amazon forest in Belém, Brazil, for annual talks on how to limit global warming. This happens as protesters and activists stage protests to call for more urgent action against climate change.
The calls for action on opening day stood in sharp contrast to the position of the President Trump, who has called global warming a “con job.”
Readers respond to news and opinion articles about Bill Gates’s public memo on climate change. Also: Interfaith connections; the myth of originalism.
With this year’s global climate summit opening in Brazil, we offer a glimpse of how the Trump administration sometimes operates behind closed doors.
The climate-friendly ride, part of a fleet assembled to shuttle delegations to the gathering in Brazil, sent a clear signal: China is making inroads in Latin America.
Extraterrestrial particles found at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean could unlock at least 30,000 years of sea ice history, a new study finds.
Nations were poised to approve the first fee on pollution from ships. That’s when the Trump administration began the threats.
World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.
Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming.
Climate change enabled the storm to churn faster and grow more quickly, a rapid analysis found.
El instrumento, de varios miles de millones de dólares, buscaría compensar a los países por mantener sus bosques en pie, con la esperanza de triunfar donde otros intentos de conservación fracasaron.
The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled.
Suiza ha puesto en marcha un plan para reconstruir Blatten, un pueblo sepultado por el deshielo de un glaciar. Es una señal de los costos económicos y emocionales del calentamiento de Europa.
The decision dealt a setback to the developers of SouthCoast Wind, a 141-turbine project off Nantucket, Mass.
The city’s new leader will have to contend with preparing for deadly floods, rising electricity costs and the future of an ambitious energy efficiency program.
The annual U.N. report card finds that, overall, countries are still far off-track from their stated goals to limit global warming.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea.
Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.
At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol.
Una manada de orcas del golfo de California ha cazado repetidamente tiburones blancos juveniles para darse un festín con sus hígados.
El filántropo multimillonario publicó la semana pasada un memorándum en el que decía que el cambio climático “no conducirá a la desaparición de la humanidad”. Hay algo de cierto en esas palabras.
In a high-profile act of eco-activism, Tim Martin and a partner had smeared black and red paint on the case at the National Gallery of Art in 2023.
A pod of orcas in the Gulf of California has repeatedly hunted juvenile white sharks to feast on their livers.
Switzerland is racing to rebuild Blatten, which was crushed by a glacier. It’s a sign of the economic and emotional costs of a warming Europe.
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.