Climate

Delaware Looks to ‘Living Shorelines’ to Save Its Coasts

Delaware Looks to ‘Living Shorelines’ to Save Its Coasts

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 20, 2025 - 21:21

Along with other East Coast states, Delaware is using natural materials to prote...

North Carolina Beach Towns Brace for Dangerous Seas From Hurricane Erin

North Carolina Beach Towns Brace for Dangerous Seas Fro...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 20, 2025 - 12:00

Most of the tourists have left Ocracoke Island, and the surfers are watching clo...

Spain’s Old Ways May Show How to Keep Cool

Spain’s Old Ways May Show How to Keep Cool

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 20, 2025 - 09:06

The tradition of the siesta is no accident. Spain has been living with extreme h...

Why Can’t the U.S. Build 5-Minute E.V. Chargers?

Why Can’t the U.S. Build 5-Minute E.V. Chargers?

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 19, 2025 - 15:32

Chinese automakers have rolled out chargers that can mostly recharge a car’s bat...

The Unlikely Allure of Death Valley in the Summer

The Unlikely Allure of Death Valley in the Summer

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 18, 2025 - 06:34

Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million visitors go there i...

Environmental Groups Sue Over D.O.E. Report Downplaying Climate Change

Environmental Groups Sue Over D.O.E. Report Downplaying...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 15, 2025 - 18:23

The lawsuit seeks to block the Trump administration from repealing the legal fou...

Flash Floods in Pakistan Kill at Least 150 People in a Single Day

Flash Floods in Pakistan Kill at Least 150 People in a ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 15, 2025 - 14:33

The country has endured heavier rain during monsoon seasons, which scientists ha...

Lesser Prairie Chicken Loses Endangered Species Act Protections

Lesser Prairie Chicken Loses Endangered Species Act Pro...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 14, 2025 - 20:03

A federal judge in Texas granted a request by the Trump administration, which sa...

Why the World Is Deadlocked Over a Treaty to Stop Plastics Pollution

Why the World Is Deadlocked Over a Treaty to Stop Plast...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 14, 2025 - 16:34

After three years of talks, and despite growing warnings about the dangers of pl...

Homeless and Burning in Phoenix, America’s Hottest City

Homeless and Burning in Phoenix, America’s Hottest City

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 13, 2025 - 15:37

As the summer heat becomes increasingly extreme in Phoenix, people who can’t esc...

Homeless and Burning in America’s Hottest City

Homeless and Burning in America’s Hottest City

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 13, 2025 - 13:31

As the summer heat becomes increasingly extreme in Phoenix, people who can’t esc...

The U.S. May Be Coming Around to Balcony Solar

The U.S. May Be Coming Around to Balcony Solar

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 12, 2025 - 16:51

Small, plug-in solar power systems have become popular in Germany and several ot...

Sierra Club’s Board Fires Ben Jealous, the Group’s Executive Director

Sierra Club’s Board Fires Ben Jealous, the Group’s Exec...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 12, 2025 - 11:38

Mr. Jealous oversaw a difficult tenure at the storied environmental organization...

Tristan Duke Sees Things We Don’t

Tristan Duke Sees Things We Don’t

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 9, 2025 - 05:30

A Los Angeles artist keeps upping the ante, whether photographing Arctic glacier...

In Reversal, FEMA Won’t Deny Grants to Cities That Boycott Israeli Firms

In Reversal, FEMA Won’t Deny Grants to Cities That Boyc...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 5, 2025 - 16:33

The move by the Trump administration may be largely symbolic since official boyc...

E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy

E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar E...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 5, 2025 - 11:38

If finalized, the move would escalate the Trump administration’s efforts to claw...

Six Sublime Beaches on the Great Lakes

Six Sublime Beaches on the Great Lakes

NYT > Climate and Environment, Aug 4, 2025 - 05:08

Sandy shorelines and fresh breezes characterize these six spots in the United St...

Fossil Fuel Companies’ Profitable Bet on Trump

Fossil Fuel Companies’ Profitable Bet on Trump

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 31, 2025 - 17:00

Three big numbers that show how President Trump has directed tens of billions of...

A ‘Dagger in the Heart’ of Climate Change Regulation

A ‘Dagger in the Heart’ of Climate Change Regulation

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 31, 2025 - 07:40

President Trump took his most consequential step yet to derail federal climate e...

Candidate Trump Promised Oil Executives a Windfall. Now, They’re Getting It.

Candidate Trump Promised Oil Executives a Windfall. Now...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 30, 2025 - 15:30

New tallies of the administration’s tax breaks and other incentives add up to te...

In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 29, 2025 - 18:33

The proposal is President Trump’s most consequential step yet to derail federal ...

In a Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

In a Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kil...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 29, 2025 - 16:34

If upheld in court, the repeal would make it almost impossible for future admini...

Trump’s E.U. Trade Deal Comes With Impossible Energy Promises

Trump’s E.U. Trade Deal Comes With Impossible Energy Pr...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 29, 2025 - 13:00

The European Union pledged to buy billions of dollars’ worth of energy resources...

Coal Plants Emailed the E.P.A. to Avoid Clean-Air Rules

Coal Plants Emailed the E.P.A. to Avoid Clean-Air Rules

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 29, 2025 - 11:08

Sites including at least 15 coal plants sought exemptions from environmental rul...

Pets, Like Dogs and Cats, Have an Environmental Cost. Here’s How to Lessen It.

Pets, Like Dogs and Cats, Have an Environmental Cost. H...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 29, 2025 - 05:37

Some pets have wide-ranging effects on the planet. Here’s how to lessen them.

Controversial Interior Department Aide From DOGE to Leave Agency

Controversial Interior Department Aide From DOGE to Lea...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 25, 2025 - 14:30

Tyler Hassen, a former oil executive who had spent time on Elon Musk’s cost-cutt...

U.S. and Mexico Sign Deal to Stop Sewage Release Into Tijuana River

U.S. and Mexico Sign Deal to Stop Sewage Release Into T...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 25, 2025 - 13:06

The agreement addresses a longstanding problem that has sickened people in both ...

Readers Sent Us Hundreds of Local Climate Solutions

Readers Sent Us Hundreds of Local Climate Solutions

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 24, 2025 - 17:51

As part of our 50 States, 50 Fixes series, more than 2,400 Times readers wrote i...

New Data Shows Untraceable Fishing Fleets in Marine Protected Areas

New Data Shows Untraceable Fishing Fleets in Marine Pro...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 24, 2025 - 15:30

Many ‘dark vessels’ fish illegally in oceans worldwide. New studies show how oft...

China and E.U. Issue Joint Climate Statement

China and E.U. Issue Joint Climate Statement

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 24, 2025 - 14:30

A joint statement promised new efforts to cut emissions at a time when China is ...

Joanna Macy, Who Found a Way to Transcend ‘Eco-Anxiety,’ Dies at 96

Joanna Macy, Who Found a Way to Transcend ‘Eco-Anxiety,...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 23, 2025 - 17:23

With books and workshops, she helped others deal with the stress caused by clima...

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fi...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 23, 2025 - 11:05

According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock ...

Microforests in Elizabeth, N.J., Help Clear the Air

Microforests in Elizabeth, N.J., Help Clear the Air

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 22, 2025 - 20:55

A nonprofit planted five “microforests” to tackle environmental problems in Eliz...

Chinese Cars, Brazil Style

Chinese Cars, Brazil Style

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 22, 2025 - 16:00

China wants to dominate the market for the cars of the future, and it has set it...

A Trump Executive Order Prompts Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans

A Trump Executive Order Prompts Park Workers to Report ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 22, 2025 - 12:38

Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagge...

How China is Dominating the Electric Car Market

How China is Dominating the Electric Car Market

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 21, 2025 - 06:10

As the likes of Ford and Mercedes retreat, China is building factories and bring...

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 18, 2025 - 18:21

The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administratio...

20 States Sue Trump Administration Over Ending FEMA Funding for Disaster Mitigation

20 States Sue Trump Administration Over Ending FEMA Fun...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 17, 2025 - 22:22

FEMA announced in April that it was ending the funding to eliminate “waste, frau...

Heat Season Is Off to a Roaring Start

Heat Season Is Off to a Roaring Start

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 17, 2025 - 16:30

Temperatures are scorching, and they probably haven’t peaked yet.

Flood Season

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 16, 2025 - 08:39

We look at recent flooding — and explain what you can do to stay safe.

How to Know Your Flood Risk

How to Know Your Flood Risk

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 15, 2025 - 15:53

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many ...

How to Get Clean Energy Tax Credits Before They’re Phased Out

How to Get Clean Energy Tax Credits Before They’re Phas...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 15, 2025 - 06:05

There’s still time to claim credits that could save you thousands of dollars.

NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports

NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 14, 2025 - 22:21

An agency spokeswoman had initially stated that NASA would retain earlier assess...

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 13, 2025 - 05:34

As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump a...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Surviv...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 11, 2025 - 21:49

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from su...

Chasing Solitude, and Dinosaurs, in Comanche National Grassland

Chasing Solitude, and Dinosaurs, in Comanche National G...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 11, 2025 - 20:51

The Comanche National Grassland rewards visitors with the chance to follow dinos...

Texas Flooding Shows the Dangers Posed by Hill Country Rivers

Texas Flooding Shows the Dangers Posed by Hill Country ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 11, 2025 - 15:54

The rivers etching the terrain are a beloved feature of the rapidly growing regi...

Trump May Not Be Done Overhauling Renewable Energy

Trump May Not Be Done Overhauling Renewable Energy

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 10, 2025 - 16:51

Days after the passage of a sprawling domestic policy bill, the Trump administra...

No, Chemtrails Are Not Real or Causing Floods, E.P.A. Says

No, Chemtrails Are Not Real or Causing Floods, E.P.A. Says

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 10, 2025 - 14:30

The agency took the unusual step of creating websites debunking the conspiracy t...

Tons of Invisible Plastic Pieces Lurk in Ocean Water

Tons of Invisible Plastic Pieces Lurk in Ocean Water

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jul 9, 2025 - 14:30

A new study offers the first estimate of nanoplastic pollution in the ocean. The...