California wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions more than even President Barack Obama had proposed. But can the state pull it off, or will it falter?...
A reader writes that family planning, birth control and voluntary abortion are keys to our environmental survival.
A decline in sea ice is allowing more marine travel, but experts say the remote region is unprepared to face an emergency at sea.
The newspaper strip “Arctic Circle” will focus on global warming this week to coincide with the sequel to the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”...
If China truly wants to be a climate leader, it needs to address its global climate footprint.
A new experiment showed a simple way to save endangered chimpanzees in Uganda and slow the rate of global warming and carbon dioxide emissions.
More than 8 billion metric tons of plastic have been made since the 1950s, researchers found. Because it does not degrade, most is still in the environment.
Some remember the computing scare as a bad joke. But the collective, worldwide effort to prevent calamity could be a model for handling global warming.
In an interview, the former vice president and climate change activist reflects on what comes after the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris agreement.
If you think it’s been a long time since the United States tackled a nebulous problem like climate change, you’ve forgotten the scramble to fix our old computers.
Rising temperatures will force airlines to delay flights more often and reduce the number of passengers per plane. And it’s already happening.
European leaders have tried, but so far no one has been able to shake him out of his denialism.
Hundreds of shearwaters arrived dying and dead on shores around New York City. Scientists suspect weather patterns altered by climate change.
Jeff Orlowski’s documentary emphasizes that climate change isn’t just an aboveground phenomenon — warmer oceans mean that coral reefs are in peril, too.
There’s no single solution for climate change, but there is one that would be more effective than others. What do you think it is?...
Residents are bracing for the worst, wondering whether measures taken so far are enough to keep devastation of the Queens community at bay.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration attributed the increase in part to the El Niño weather pattern. Its report makes no mention of human contributions.
All around the world, scientists are building repositories of everything from seeds to ice to mammal milk — racing to preserve a natural order that is fast disappearing.
An iceberg the size of Delaware has broken off, another sign of the rapid change underway on the world’s iciest continent.
Spiritual leaders at Mao Mountain, a sacred Taoist site, emphasize a distinctly Chinese type of environmentalism. Christians, Buddhists and Muslims are embracing it, too.
A new paper describes the threatened mass extinction of thousands of animal species around the globe. The authors say that human activities are in large part to blame.
The coalition, led by Gov. Jerry Brown of California and Michael Bloomberg, a former mayor of New York, said it will work with experts to try to meet the targets of the Paris climate deal.
Environmentalists are fighting to prevent logging in Bialowieza forest, a Unesco world heritage site, but the Polish government has dismissed their concerns.
A reader criticizes an E.P.A. plan to encourage climate change skeptics to express their views.
The Group of 20 meeting, with its divisions over climate and trade, reflected a newly confrontational tone by European leaders toward the United States.
At a G-20 summit meeting marred by violent protests, 19 other member states broke decisively with President Trump, in a victory for Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany.
A growing number of analysts say pessimism about plug-in cars could be becoming outdated, thanks in part to plunging battery prices.
In the woods, decomposing with wild things, and my burial money being used to preserve the land.
This documentary explores the endangered world of coral reefs.
The country, a major auto producer, joined Norway and India in a growing movement toward the use of electric vehicles. But the transition will be gradual.
The California governor, continuing his defiance of President Trump, said that states and cities would continue climate efforts even as Washington backed away.
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Indonesia could side with the United States against the Paris climate accord at the Group of 20 meeting this week.
A Berkeley professor writes that the mayors will not let meanspirited politics divide us and keep us from creating the world we want.
The ruling, on a regulation to restrict emissions from new oil and gas wells, signaled that President Trump’s plans to simply delay environmental actions are likely to face an uphill battle.
Scientists are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland. The experiment is seen as a path for dormant bogs and another chance for vanishing habitat.
Much of President Trump’s policy agenda is mired in delay, but Scott Pruitt has already achieved a major regulatory rollback.
China has asserted itself as a global climate leader even as Chinese companies are planning to build half of all new coal plants at home and overseas.
Speaking at a conference in Indonesia, Mr. Obama indirectly criticized President Trump for pulling out of the Paris climate agreement.
Scott Pruitt told coal industry executives that he would conduct a “red team-blue team” research exercise on climate change.
Carol M. Browner, a former E.P.A. administrator, writes that we need to preserve the critical carbon-free power we get from nuclear plants.
Crops are wilting, farmers and herders are desperate for water and economic losses are estimated to be at least $780 million so far.
The most detailed economic study yet of global warming’s cost to the United States finds that the Southeast and Midwest will be hardest hit.
The most detailed economic study yet of global warming’s cost to the United States finds that the Southeast and Midwest will be hardest hit.
Southern Company built its plant in Mississippi to show how coal could be burned with fewer carbon emissions. But it never worked as designed.
The New York Times asked teachers how they are approaching the subject of climate change in their classrooms.
Officials are considering changing a 1971 law protecting coastal areas in hopes that reopening 14 sites to industrial development will create jobs.
According to emails, the Environmental Protection Agency’s top staff member pressed a leading scientific adviser to alter her testimony and play down the dismissal of outside experts.
American mayors in Miami Beach for their annual meeting urged the federal government to fight global warming and vowed to step up their own efforts.