The administration has thrown into chaos a deal that Washington State worked out with local leaders, environmentalists and industry.
Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge of Antarctica.
The traditional rhetoric of the World Economic Forum centered on global integration, climate change and international cooperation. Not anymore.
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong takes a trip into the New York Times archives to see how our understanding of Antarctica has changed over the past century.
She played a key role in negotiating a landmark United Nations treaty to protect the high seas, an agreement that went into effect this weekend.
Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters enabling countries to create special conservation zones.
Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed.
Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.
Construction can continue on an $11.2 billion project off the coast of Virginia, said to be 70 percent complete.
Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retirements, some aging plants are now breaking, and costs could run to the billions.
Thousands of cities around the world saw their hottest year on record in 2025 as the planet has inched closer to a key temperature threshold.
Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.
A federal judge said the Empire Wind project off Long Island would suffer “irreparable harm” if the Trump administration continued to hold up work.
For half a century, a federal program has covered most at-risk properties. Now, a private company is pitching a plan to shrink the government’s role.
Es probable que las empresas que convierten el petróleo en gasolina y diesel tomen la ventaja, comparadas con aquellas que extraen del subsuelo.
This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.
The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.
The president’s hostility to E.V.s is hurting U.S. automakers.
The companies that turn oil into gasoline and diesel are likely to benefit more, right away, than the businesses that pump oil out of the ground.
Durante décadas, un archipiélago ártico llamado Svalbard ha sido un inusual refugio de cooperación internacional. Esos días se terminaron.
China banned the burning of coal for heat around Beijing, but natural gas subsidies have run out, leaving many villagers vulnerable in dangerously cold weather.
Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.
Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks studying up close.
The agency wants to curtail a section of the Clean Water Act that Democratic governors have used to restrict fossil fuel development.
The increase in planet-warming emissions came after two years of decline as demand for electricity has been surging.
Experienced Antarctica guides tell Raymond Zhong, our climate reporter, how they set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier so scientists can measure how fast it’s melting. The biggest safety concern? Crevasses.
The Energy Department canceled $7.5 billion in Biden-era energy spending, largely in Democratic-led states, during last year’s government shutdown.
The ruling means that construction can continue on Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion project off the coast of Rhode Island, at least for now.
The justices heard arguments over whether oil companies sued by Louisiana could move the cases from state to federal court, a venue thought to be friendlier to corporate interests.
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said.
The idea of cows grazing in a pasture seems idyllic. We asked experts how their emissions stack up compared to factory farms.
Local governments are suing oil companies over environmental damage. The companies want the suits moved out of state courts, to friendlier venues.
For decades, an Arctic archipelago called Svalbard has served as a rare refuge of international cooperation. Those days are over.
And that is bad news for our planet.
Warming seas and increased flooding threaten a way of life for Native Americans who have called the Pacific Northwest coast their home for generations.
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong meets with Paul Anker, a drilling engineer aboard the icebreaker Araon, to discuss the stakes, preparations and pressure of the mission to drill a hole in the Thwaites Glacier to measure the water beneath.
From an icebreaker sailing near the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, our photographer has captured the many faces of the ice.
Una expedición busca entender por qué la placa helada se contrae cada vez más en esa zona del mundo, aunque a un ritmo menos acelerado que su contraparte en el Ártico.
General Motors said it was writing down the value of battery and electric vehicle factories after changes in federal policy undercut demand.
A warming planet has opened up new shipping routes and turned Greenland into a geostrategic asset for the Trump administration.
Less than a day after arriving at the ice, we are already up close and personal with the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica.
The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into the water.
The Trump administration said Wednesday that the United States was withdrawing from 66 international agreements, including a major climate change treaty.
The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight climate change.
After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.
Democrats demanded information from seven top U.S. oil companies about any meetings with the Trump administration regarding plans to control Venezuela’s oil industry.
The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, to remake the agency.
As the icebreaker heads into the sea ice zone around Antarctica, penguins and seals start to appear. The lead scientist on the vessel teaches our climate reporter, Raymond Zhong, to identify different kinds of sea ice.
The Trump administration has made no secret that it covets Venezuela’s oil reserves. What happens next could have serious implications for the planet.
After 10 days with only the open ocean and the occasional iceberg at our sides, sailing into the sea ice felt like crossing into a whole new realm.
Most of the reserves in the country are extra-heavy oil that’s tough to extract and generates more greenhouse gases.
One year later, we haven’t really begun to reckon with the real meaning of the Los Angeles fires.
Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show.
As conservation efforts make the waters in the New York region more inviting for whales, increasing traffic from ships and boats has contributed to a climbing number of strandings.
Our reporter Raymond Zhong takes a first round of questions about the trip to Antarctica. First up: How can data gathered on the trip tell us how much time is left for the glaciers?
The developers of Revolution Wind off Rhode Island and Empire Wind off New York are the latest to sue the Trump administration.
A New York Times series looked at initiatives to tackle climate change in each U.S. state.
The floods that struck last week just before the first anniversary of the January wildfires show how extreme weather is defining life in the L.A. region.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation that will ultimately ban the catch and biomedical use of the crabs.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, announced several key appointments who could help implement central promises of his agenda, including universal child care.
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong gives a tour of the Araon, the South Korean icebreaker that will take him, our photographer and a team of scientists to Antarctica.
Seleccionamos algunos de los mejores artículos periodísticos que publicamos este año, y que quizá no pudiste leer por el incesante ciclo de las noticias de última hora.
Investigaciones recientes han llevado a los científicos a nuevas conclusiones sobre el glaciar que se derrite con mayor rapidez en la Antártida. Algunas son tranquilizadoras, otras todo lo contrario.
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong sets out on his journey to Antarctica and shares his biggest question for the trip ahead.
La periodista e hija de Caroline Kennedy, relató su batalla contra un raro tipo de leucemia este año. “Ahora he añadido una nueva tragedia”, escribió en The New Yorker, “a la vida de nuestra familia, y no hay nada que pueda hacer para impedirlo”.
We look at some of our best stories of 2025 that you might have missed in the year’s avalanche of news.
Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica. Here’s what to know.
An environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, she recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker, drawing worldwide sympathy.
Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, others the opposite.
Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challenging utilities.
En nuestra expedición al continente helado, avanzaríamos una hora y retrocederíamos un día. Era el primero de varios saltos que tendríamos que hacer a medida que nuestro rompehielos atravesara zonas horarias durante nuestro tránsito de 10 días.
Nuestros periodistas enviarán despachos periódicos mientras se dirigen a la Antártida acompañando a científicos que intentan calibrar los peligros del calentamiento del mar.
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong describes how the fast-melting Thwaites Glacier of Antarctica, is like a cork in a bottle: If it starts to really disintegrate, many more glaciers around it could do the same, with major consequences for sea levels.
What do a New York Times reporter and photographer pack for a two-month expedition to the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica? Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee compare the must-have gear that they’re bringing for the journey.
The clocks aboard our icebreaker will be changed several times en route to Antarctica. It’s one of many things that make the expedition feel otherworldly.
Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.
Readers submitted more than 3,200 ideas for our 50 States, 50 Fixes series. Before the year ends, we wanted to share just a few more of them.
An unusual partnership between an environmentalist and a Republican megadonor began with a fight on Twitter. It ended up in the creation of a $1 billion state fund to expand Texas park land.
Our journalists are joining scientists on a research ship sailing to the continent’s fast-melting glaciers.
Marina Vance had an E.P.A. grant to help homeowners counter the impact of wildfire smoke, until the agency deemed the research “no longer consistent” with its priorities.
OK, 2025 wasn’t the best year ever. But we’re arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.
Policymakers and investors are pursuing what’s feasible rather than promising the impossible.
The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago.
The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they head there with scientists trying gauge the dangers.
How much time does the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica have left? Our reporter Raymond Zhong and our photographer Chang W. Lee are joining scientists and engineers who measure how much sea levels could rise as a result of melting ice.
Readers respond to a guest essay arguing that it is an unfair “racket. Also: An attack on climate research and safety; the value of immigrants to America.
More rain was forecast for the Los Angeles Area on Friday, adding to wet weather that prompted emergency declarations across the state.
The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New Mexico.
The president exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An E.P.A. official guided the company that sought the exemption, emails show.
The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave utilities more time to tackle toxic coal ash.
The Trump administration had sought to require states to account for population losses tied to deportations in order to receive emergency preparedness grants.
Abandoning ship, negotiating fires or hitting an iceberg are all risks when traveling to one of the fastest-melting glaciers on the continent. Our science reporter Raymond Zhong shares a glimpse into the survival training for his upcoming Antarctic trip.
Leaders in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island are racing to save offshore wind farms targeted by the president.
The Trump administration has aggressively pulled America away from its global role in climate and environmental research, diplomacy, regulation and investment.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.
The government moves to make it easier to drill, mine and graze on 50 million acres of land in the West.
New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face deforestation.
It’s the latest in a decade-long scandal involving accusations that software “defeat devices” made diesel vehicles seem cleaner than they were.
The sweeping changes have affected everything from coal plant retirements to international diplomacy over shipping emissions.
Two weeks of “atmospheric river” deluges took a toll on business in Leavenworth, Wash., and beyond, reminding the region that a warming planet has brought new uncertainty.
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.