Climate change is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt.
The funding, approved by Congress and overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency, had been blocked since January, when President Trump ordered a pause and review of climate and clean energy programs.
An awkward truth has become evident in the first days of the Trump administration, as many firms mute their commitments to diversity and sustainability.
El personal de la oficina, una rama del Departamento de Vivienda de EE. UU. y que el Congreso utiliza para hacer frente a las peores catástrofes, se reduciría en un 84 por ciento.
An attempt by the agency to claw back billions in climate funds has led to confusion and the resignation of a top prosecutor.
Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent.
A provocative new book asks what we owe one another in a heating world.
The latest eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily has drawn crowds of photographers, hikers and nature aficionados, which have congested streets and clogged paths for rescue crews.
The suit, filed in Alaska, is likely to be the first of many challenging the administration’s goal of expanding fossil fuel production.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has cited President Trump’s claim of a national energy emergency to speed up permits for new gas pipelines and other projects.
A Columbia microbiologist, he popularized “vertical farming” — raising crops in tall buildings — to remediate climate change and feed more people.
A new map shows where land movement is accelerating, buckling roads and collapsing homes.
Thousands of employees who helped oversee vast areas of wilderness have lost their jobs in President Trump’s moves to shrink the federal work force.
Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that could prove costly in the long term.
Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.
In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn driver of planetary harm.
The state will no longer require some truckers to shift away from diesel semis but hopes that subsidies can keep dreams of pollution-free big rigs alive.
Any sign that nature is working as it ought to reminds me to keep faith in the future.
The Trump administration is quietly upending government rules and policies.
At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil.
The Trump administration’s decision to fire 3,400 workers and pause funds used for wildfire prevention comes as wildfires are growing more dangerous and frequent.
The direct air capture industry has ambitious plans to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but it’s vying for limited renewable power resources.
Companies that get federal grants or loans usually sign a legally binding agreement and depend on getting reimbursed. The new administration has upended that expectation.
The agency issued an internal memo saying it would “pause” a regulation directing that schools, libraries and other public facilities damaged by disasters be rebuilt safely.
In his first few weeks, President Trump has frozen climate spending, shaken up staffing at agencies like the E.P.A. and set off a wave of legal challenges.
The dam project, drafted in 2018 and based on a former military training site south of Prague, had been delayed by land negotiations. Local beavers built several dams, saving the government more than one million euros.
The court ruled that the Trump administration had a narrowly defined path to withhold some funds to the city that had been approved by Congress.
The nominee, Kathleen Sgamma, has worked for nearly two decades on behalf of oil and gas companies in Western states.
Readers discuss the showdown with President Trump. Also: A report on nature; Hank Azaria’s voice; A.I. jobs; attacks on diversity.
As Trump pledges regulatory rollbacks, environmental groups say the administration’s aggressive cost-cutting tactics could make it easier for them to win some long-term battles.
If you’re scooping up a bouquet at the grocery store, here are a few things to consider.
Federal and state officials say the temporary sites for processing hazardous waste pose no threat, but residents are worried about their air and water.
The acting chair, Mark Uyeda, is directing the Securities and Exchange Commission to pause its legal defense of a rule requiring companies to make climate disclosures.
Since the inauguration, billionaires who funded climate action over the last decade have avoided criticizing Trump’s climate policies.
The 20-year move toward lower emissions won’t stop just because of the president.
Staff members search for spending on “climate science,” “climate crisis” and “pollution” as one of the world’s premier climate research agencies girds for cuts.
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
Heavy metals detected in the soil have also created health implications for Monterey County’s agriculture industry, and the workers who pick the produce.
About 80 percent of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flowed to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.
In the hospital, I learned the first lesson of parenting: You are not in control of what is going to happen, nor can you predict it.
The European Court of Human Rights took Italy to task for not protecting citizens in an area where illegal dumping and burning of toxic waste has long been linked to cancers. Residents say it’s about time.
Aid projects were designed to help Central Americans withstand extreme weather at home. Their end could undercut Trump’s goal of reducing migration.
President Trump tangled with its forecasters during his first term. As he slashes government spending, many wonder what that means for weather data.
Some have halted work on the Biden-era $5 billion program to build E.V. charging stations. Others plan to keep building. Most are confused.
The move would run counter to a Biden administration push to cut back on single-use plastic, which was considered a milestone.
The central bank has halted hiring to align with a White House directive and pulled back its work on climate change.
Emboldened by President Trump, West Virginia and other states are challenging the Climate Change Superfund Act, which makes corporate polluters pay for past emissions.
Among the programs affected by the possible freeze of American foreign aid are those that establish and support overseas national parks and conservation areas.
By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ice sheets move.
What the economics of coal-rich states like Wyoming tells us about the transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuel.
President Trump is expected to close the office as he cuts programs to help poor and minority communities that are disproportionately affected by pollution.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has sold a majority stake in his Jigsaw Productions to the philanthropist Wendy Schmidt.
Producers are struggling to stave off environmental threats to Chablis’s distinctive character.
Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which typically bring cooler temperatures.
A respected atmospheric scientist, Dr. Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics in 2019.
President Trump’s tariffs could threaten supply chains in the renewable energy industry and disrupt oil and gas markets.
What a new study found about America.
The gap between Americans’ prosperity and quality of life has grown since the 1990s.
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
The former fracking executive said in confirmation hearings that his top priority would be to “unleash” American energy production.
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.
A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.
Preliminary data from the first few weeks of New York City’s tolling plan show a possible uptick in traffic in the neighborhood.
The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states that voted Republican.
Around the world, other communities are experimenting with ideas that Los Angeles could borrow as it rebuilds from disastrous wildfires.
In announcing a $35 billion program to bring inexpensive solar power to some 300 million Africans, officials left out two words: climate change.
The former governor of North Dakota is promoting President Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda and wants more oil, gas and mining on public lands.
Executive orders and announcements by President Trump have put billions of dollars in U.S. climate commitments into question.
A court ruling requires the British government to consider the potential climate impact of the oil and gas produced in the North Sea.
The order is the latest Trump administration effort against Biden-era initiatives that intended to promote electric vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of climate change, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence.
A rule known as the endangerment finding requires the E.P.A. to regulate greenhouse gases. It has proved resilient against earlier attacks.
After a flood destroyed their town, Kentucky residents faced the agonizing choice of whether to stay or to relocate to new communities built on former strip mines.
The oil company plans to build natural gas power plants that will be directly connected to data centers used by technology companies for artificial intelligence and other services.
The president wants to convene the rarely used panel, which has the power to carve out exemptions to the Endangered Species Act. Here’s what to know.
As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors to unique higher ground.
Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.”
The wild creatures who have adapted to our ways are adept at remaining out of sight. But they are here, and they will always be with us.
States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming.
A través de una ráfaga de órdenes, el nuevo presidente comenzó rápidamente a conducir al país en una dirección diferente en muchas cuestiones polémicas.
In California’s fire-stoked debate over how aggressively to manage both nature and urban sprawl, Australia can share both empathy and insight.
Through a flurry of orders, the new president quickly began driving the country in a different direction on many contentious issues.
Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before.
After a tour of areas damaged by the California wildfires, the president sparred with local leaders and blamed them for a wide variety of issues affecting the disaster response.
On President Trump’s first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times, explains what th...
“I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said. Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.
There are 206 coal-burning power plants left in the United States, which supply about 16 percent of the country’s energy. Experts say burning more doesn’t make financial sense.
His executive orders ultimately seek to make the market for oil and gas as big as possible.
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.