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What’s Behind the Weird Weather That’s Dominated 2026

What’s Behind the Weird Weather That’s Dominated 2026

NYT > Climate and Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

While iguanas were stunned by freezing cold in Florida, would-be skiers were loo...

Contentious Weedkiller Gets a Green Light, in a Blow to the MAHA Agenda

Contentious Weedkiller Gets a Green Light, in a Blow to...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

The chemical, dicamba, is used to control weeds on genetically engineered crops....

Japan Ocean-Mining Test Successfully Hauls Up Potentially Valuable Mud

Japan Ocean-Mining Test Successfully Hauls Up Potential...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

It’s the latest twist in the controversial global race to mine the deep sea for ...

A First Look Below Antarctica’s Most Menacing Glacier

A First Look Below Antarctica’s Most Menacing Glacier

NYT > Climate and Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

Scientists on the Thwaites Glacier attempted to install equipment beneath the ic...

Snow Drought, Political Shifts and Strikes Batter Ski Industry in Western U.S.

Snow Drought, Political Shifts and Strikes Batter Ski I...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Feb 2, 2026 - 15:54

Little snowpack, strikes by mountain staff and Trump administration policies tha...

An attempt to study Thwaites Glacier from below meets an icy end.

An attempt to study Thwaites Glacier from below meets a...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Feb 2, 2026 - 15:54

Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable ...

Governors Dive Into an Impasse Over Colorado River Water Use

Governors Dive Into an Impasse Over Colorado River Wate...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 30, 2026 - 19:25

State leaders gathered in Washington amid threats of lawsuits over a diminishing...

Climate Change Is Fueling Extremes, Both Hot and Cold

Climate Change Is Fueling Extremes, Both Hot and Cold

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 29, 2026 - 15:26

The possibility of snow in Tampa, Fla. Record heat and fires in Australia. Scien...

Unions Sue FEMA Over Work Force Cuts They Say Threaten Readiness

Unions Sue FEMA Over Work Force Cuts They Say Threaten ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 28, 2026 - 15:54

The suit argues that the recent dismissals and plans for further cuts violate la...

How Does Climate Change Affect Winter Storms?

How Does Climate Change Affect Winter Storms?

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 26, 2026 - 18:23

A warmer atmosphere has the potential to hold more moisture, which can contribut...

What Is Thundersnow, One of Weather’s Rarest Spectacles

What Is Thundersnow, One of Weather’s Rarest Spectacles

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 25, 2026 - 15:53

A clap of thunder can come as a surprise in the steady calm of falling snow. Her...

Setting Foot on the Melting Thwaites Glacier

Setting Foot on the Melting Thwaites Glacier

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 23, 2026 - 21:21

Bad weather delayed expedition scientists’ efforts to set up camp on Thwaites...

How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History

How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 23, 2026 - 18:23

Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to...

Winter Storm Forecast: 5 Key Things to Know Across the US

Winter Storm Forecast: 5 Key Things to Know Across the US

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 23, 2026 - 15:55

Here are five key things to know about the forecast.

Alfred McLaren, 93, Dies; Submariner Led Secret Cold War Missions

Alfred McLaren, 93, Dies; Submariner Led Secret Cold Wa...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 23, 2026 - 15:55

He participated in the first baseball game at the North Pole. Later, he became a...

National Park Service Removes Sign on Climate Change From Fort Sumter

National Park Service Removes Sign on Climate Change Fr...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 22, 2026 - 16:54

The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising ...

Why Climate Isn’t a Top Business Priority at Davos

Why Climate Isn’t a Top Business Priority at Davos

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 22, 2026 - 16:54

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was once ground zero for an unof...

E.P.A. Revives Plan to End Testing on Animals by 2035

E.P.A. Revives Plan to End Testing on Animals by 2035

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 22, 2026 - 16:54

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Tr...

The New Wild Card on Travelers’ Itineraries: Uncertainty

The New Wild Card on Travelers’ Itineraries: Uncertainty

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 21, 2026 - 15:55

Politics, military action and climate change have increased risk for destination...

Forecasters Warn of a Major Storm Brewing for the South

Forecasters Warn of a Major Storm Brewing for the South

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 21, 2026 - 15:55

One meteorologist warns that “the main ingredients” are fitting into place for a...

At last, the team pitches tents on the Thwaites Glacier.

At last, the team pitches tents on the Thwaites Glacier.

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 20, 2026 - 16:57

Explore a century of The Times’s reporting from Antarctica.

Explore a century of The Times’s reporting from Antarct...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 19, 2026 - 16:27

A Century of The New York Times in Antarctica

A Century of The New York Times in Antarctica

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 18, 2026 - 18:25

Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong takes a trip into the New York Times archives...

Kristina Gjerde, Advocate for Ocean Biodiversity, Dies at 68

Kristina Gjerde, Advocate for Ocean Biodiversity, Dies ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 17, 2026 - 18:24

She played a key role in negotiating a landmark United Nations treaty to protect...

An Antarctic Icebreaker Takes a Pioneering Sail

An Antarctic Icebreaker Takes a Pioneering Sail

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 16, 2026 - 20:23

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inl...

Sailing Through a ‘Death Trap’ Once Covered by Antarctic Ice

Sailing Through a ‘Death Trap’ Once Covered by Antarcti...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 16, 2026 - 17:53

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inl...

Preparing to drill into a glacier

Preparing to drill into a glacier

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 16, 2026 - 16:53

What Does Antarctica Sound Like?

What Does Antarctica Sound Like?

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 15, 2026 - 17:25

Our reporter answers another batch of reader questions from an expedition to Ant...

The Cities That Broke Heat Records Last Year

The Cities That Broke Heat Records Last Year

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 15, 2026 - 16:53

Thousands of cities around the world saw their hottest year on record in 2025 as...

A Look At Antarctica From Above

A Look At Antarctica From Above

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 14, 2026 - 18:53

After nearly two weeks at sea without being able to launch his drone, New York T...

Orsted Moves to Save Its U.S, Wind Farm Projects

Orsted Moves to Save Its U.S, Wind Farm Projects

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 13, 2026 - 16:24

Orsted’s C.E.O. says it plans to move quickly to complete a $6.2 billion wind fa...

Camping on a Glacier? Watch Your Step

Camping on a Glacier? Watch Your Step

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 12, 2026 - 21:53

Experienced Antarctica guides tell Raymond Zhong, our climate reporter, how they...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 12, 2026 - 15:52

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when sett...

Climate Change Threatens Way of Life for Native American Tribes in Pacific Northwest

Climate Change Threatens Way of Life for Native America...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 10, 2026 - 15:53

Warming seas and increased flooding threaten a way of life for Native Americans ...

Billions at Stake in the Ocean as Trump Throttles Offshore Wind Farms

Billions at Stake in the Ocean as Trump Throttles Offsh...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 10, 2026 - 15:53

The Trump administration has repeatedly ordered work to stop on offshore wind fa...

What It Takes to Drill Into an Antarctic Glacier

What It Takes to Drill Into an Antarctic Glacier

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 10, 2026 - 00:55

Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong meets with Paul Anker, a drilling engineer ab...

Disasters Cost U.S. More Than $100 Billion in 2025

Disasters Cost U.S. More Than $100 Billion in 2025

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 8, 2026 - 16:54

A record-setting 21 thunderstorm events each caused at least $1 billion in damag...

A Closer Look at Sea Ice Encountered on the Way to Antarctica

A Closer Look at Sea Ice Encountered on the Way to Anta...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 7, 2026 - 15:24

FEMA Staff Bracing for Dismissal of 1,000 Disaster Workers

FEMA Staff Bracing for Dismissal of 1,000 Disaster Workers

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 6, 2026 - 22:22

The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the Homeland Security sec...

Entering the Frozen Continent

Entering the Frozen Continent

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 6, 2026 - 19:23

As the icebreaker heads into the sea ice zone around Antarctica, penguins and se...

Approaching Antarctica, the Icebreaker Araon Encounters Thick Sea Ice

Approaching Antarctica, the Icebreaker Araon Encounters...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 6, 2026 - 16:52

The sea ice changed completely over the course of a few hours, from disconnected...

An Homage to Our Last Sunsets

An Homage to Our Last Sunsets

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 5, 2026 - 21:54

A trip to Antarctica at this time of year means a month of no darkness. Our clim...

Entering the Antarctic Sea Ice, and a New World

Entering the Antarctic Sea Ice, and a New World

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 5, 2026 - 17:21

After 10 days with only the open ocean and the occasional iceberg at our sides, ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, Kennedy Daughter Who Wrote of Her Cancer, Dies at 35

Tatiana Schlossberg, Kennedy Daughter Who Wrote of Her ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 5, 2026 - 16:00

An environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, she wrote of her stru...

Ringing in 2026 on an Icebreaker Bound for Antarctica

Ringing in 2026 on an Icebreaker Bound for Antarctica

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 3, 2026 - 17:22

Scientists aboard the icebreaker Araon welcomed 2026 with games, another time ch...

What did our photographer take to Antarctica? A lot of cables.

What did our photographer take to Antarctica? A lot of ...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Jan 3, 2026 - 17:22

See the First Iceberg of the Times’s Trip to Antarctica

See the First Iceberg of the Times’s Trip to Antarctica

NYT > Climate and Environment, Dec 31, 2025 - 23:50

For Antarctic veterans and novices alike, the first sighting of an iceberg on an...

Leaving London: Step one in a long commute to the bottom of the Earth.

Leaving London: Step one in a long commute to the botto...

NYT > Climate and Environment, Dec 31, 2025 - 23:50

Antarctica bound on a search for clues to Earth’s future.

Antarctica bound on a search for clues to Earth’s future.

NYT > Climate and Environment, Dec 31, 2025 - 23:50

As vast, wild and beyond our comprehending as Antarctica may seem, its melting i...

Why scientists are studying the Thwaites glacier.

Why scientists are studying the Thwaites glacier.

NYT > Climate and Environment, Dec 31, 2025 - 23:50