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How a Crisis for Vultures Led to a Human Disaster: Half a Million Deaths
The birds were accidentally poisoned in India. New research on what happened next shows how wildlife collapse can be deadly for people.
By Catrin Einhorn
The birds were accidentally poisoned in India. New research on what happened next shows how wildlife collapse can be deadly for people.
By Catrin Einhorn
They can be, but it depends on your driving habits. We break it down for you.
By Jack Ewing
The city’s expanded low-emissions zone, which was politically fraught, has cut emissions that contribute to health problems like asthma, new numbers show.
By Somini Sengupta
Online sales appear to be compounding threats from climate change and habitat loss, according to new research.
By Rachel Nuwer
The government said it would phase out its purchases of single-use plastics, a significant step because it is the biggest buyer of consumer goods in the world.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
It’s unclear why a blade from one of the Vineyard Wind turbines broke into pieces, which are washing up on Nantucket beaches.
By Brad Plumer
Several speakers focused on the sharp rise in gas and electricity prices under President Biden. We scrutinized their statements.
By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman
If Donald Trump returns to the White House, he would likely face fewer legal and bureaucratic obstacles to dramatically remake the E.P.A.
By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman
High prices and growing demand have helped U.S. oil producers take in record profits despite global efforts to spur greater use of renewable energy and electric cars.
By Rebecca F. Elliott and Desiree Rios
He once said society had a climate problem but changed his position sharply while seeking Donald Trump’s endorsement in his Senate race.
By Lisa Friedman
Conventional toilet paper has a big environmental impact. We’ve got the lowdown on alternatives, from bamboo tissue to bidets.
By Elizabeth Anne Brown
The company will spend $242 million to resolve allegations that it released methane, a greenhouse gas, and other pollutants in North Dakota.
By Rebecca F. Elliott
Amid soaring temperatures, hundreds of activists are staging boisterous blockades and solemn marches at banks and insurers that support fossil fuel projects.
By Somini Sengupta and Cara Buckley
The deposit, in Zambia, could make billions for Silicon Valley, provide minerals for the energy transition and help the United States in its rivalry with China.
By Max Bearak
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The company said it effectively got all of the electricity it used last year from sources that did not produce greenhouse gas emissions. Some experts have faulted the company’s calculations.
By Ivan Penn and Eli Tan
Climate change is driving rates higher, but not always in areas with the greatest risk.
By Christopher Flavelle and Mira Rojanasakul
A New York Times investigation found that Elon Musk exploited federal agencies’ competing missions to achieve his goals for space travel.
By Eric Lipton and Meridith Kohut
Both have gotten caught up in fights over plastic packaging. When Costco recently tried to trim its plastic use by selling rotisserie chickens in bags, some shoppers disapproved.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
A new analysis shows increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes could cause more devastating interruptions to the power grid.
By Austyn Gaffney
An election over the future of a United Nations-affiliated organization could determine whether the Pacific Ocean floor will soon be mined for metals used in electric vehicles.
By Eric Lipton
Five bulls from the area around a Kenyan wildlife reserve have been shot and killed in Tanzania in recent months. The countries have very different conservation strategies.
By Shola Lawal
Four cases backed by conservative activists in recent years have combined to diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
By Coral Davenport
A foundational 1984 decision had required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.
By Adam Liptak
Half of the water flowing through regional river basins starts in so-called ephemeral streams. Last year, the Supreme Court curtailed federal protections for these waterways.
By Brad Plumer
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VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies.
By Jack Ewing
As temperatures soar around the world, practical experiments are emerging to protect people.
By Somini Sengupta
In heat waves, chemicals like formaldehyde and ozone can form more readily in the air, according to researchers driving mobile labs in New York City this week.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
People all over the world are facing severe heat, floods and fire, aggravated by the use of fossil fuels. The year isn’t halfway done.
By Somini Sengupta
They’ll be replaced in North America with paper packing, eliminating some 15 billion pillows a year. Plastic film is a major pollutant.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Macaques, reeling from a hurricane, learned by necessity to get along, a study found. It’s one of the first to suggest that animals can adapt to environmental upheaval with social changes.
By Rachel Nuwer
Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate change and habitat loss.
By Catrin Einhorn
Portfolio managers have conflicting incentives as the economic and financial risks from climate change become more apparent but remain imprecise.
By Lydia DePillis
The labor and environmental groups are pushing the change so relief funds can be used in more situations.
By Manuela Andreoni
One group in Hudson Bay might have roughly a decade left because sea ice is becoming too thin to support them as they hunt, according to new research.
By Austyn Gaffney
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The government will look at ways to extend the shelf life of foods and to create more composting and other facilities, as well as urge companies to donate more food.
By Somini Sengupta
Work is starting in Wyoming coal country on a new type of reactor. Its main backer, Bill Gates, says he’s in it for the emissions-free electricity.
By Brad Plumer and Benjamin Rasmussen
Industry groups said the E.P.A. had exceeded its authority in requiring the drinking-water cleanup. The chemicals, known as PFAS, are linked to cancer and health risks.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
After years of political consensus on the transition to cleaner energy, a ‘greenlash’ began bubbling up as prices rose and right-wing candidates gained ground.
By Somini Sengupta
Officials in Oregon say they need to cut trees, including some healthy ones. The reaction shows how complex land management has become as forest health declines.
By Anna Kramer
Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.
By Jack Ewing
His comments came as the world body’s weather agency said it expected Earth to soon surpass the record high temperatures experienced in 2023.
By Raymond Zhong
The City Council in Alameda, Calif., voted to stop tests of a device that could one day cool the Earth. Scientists and city staff had previously concluded the tests posed no risk.
By Soumya Karlamangla and Christopher Flavelle
Farmers have repeatedly protested over grievances tied to global warming, a major political and economic test given the importance of India’s rural economy.
By Somini Sengupta
The country’s south received three months’ rain in two weeks. Global warming has made such deluges twice as likely as before, scientists said.
By Raymond Zhong and Manuela Andreoni
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Meet the “bucket of doom” and other methods to manage mosquitoes and ticks.
By Catrin Einhorn
Lower-than-normal rain and snow have reduced Canada’s hydropower production, raising worries in the industry about the effects of climate change.
By Ivan Penn and Ruth Fremson
Hurdles remain as Chevron and Exxon Mobil wage a legal battle over Hess’s stake in a lucrative oil project in Guyana.
By Rebecca F. Elliott
At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos litigation, audio from the event revealed.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
The new principles aim to define ‘high-integrity’ offsets amid concerns that current practices often don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions as claimed.
By Brad Plumer
Since last May, the average person experienced 26 more days of abnormal warmth than they would have without global warming, a new analysis found.
By Raymond Zhong
Heat and drought are taking a toll on the tiny soil creatures that help to lock away planet-warming carbon, according to a new analysis.
By Sofia Quaglia
Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry.
By Delger Erdenesanaa
The damage was unusual, experts say, because turbines are built to withstand extreme weather. Iowa is a wind powerhouse, with thousands of turbines.
By Christopher Flavelle
The sale, which was mandated by Congress, is timed to the summer driving season but unlikely to have more than a modest effect on gasoline prices.
By Zach Montague
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Technically, it exists. But here’s what to think about when shopping.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Scientists say storms like those that battered Houston could become more intense as the planet warms, though pinning down trends is still challenging.
By Raymond Zhong
Scientists in the United States are reporting “unprecedented patterns” of surface warming, an ominous sign for coral.
By Catrin Einhorn
Scientists used tree rings to compare last year’s extreme heat with temperatures over the past two millenniums.
By Delger Erdenesanaa
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the biggest changes in more than a decade to the way U.S. power lines are planned and funded.
By Brad Plumer
Electrical utilities said they weathered earlier conditions as persistent geomagnetic storms were expected to cause another light show in evening skies.
By Katrina Miller, Ivan Penn and Emmett Lindner
Officials said the decision would lower bills and encourage people to use cars and appliances that did not use fossil fuels, but some experts said it would discourage energy efficiency.
By Ivan Penn
Asbestos, “forever” chemicals, E.V.s and endangered species. Here’s what 10 new rules cover, and why the administration has been churning them out.
By Coral Davenport
Beijing’s dominance raises economic and security concerns, and tensions will be high as top climate diplomats meet this week.
By Somini Sengupta
They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. And the technology is expanding rapidly.
By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich
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A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly.
By Susan Shain
The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap.
By Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn
Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet.
By Raymond Zhong
Shell and others say they plan to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico in part because doing so releases fewer greenhouse gases than drilling on land.
By Ivan Penn
The Federal Trade Commission will bar Pioneer’s chief executive, Scott Sheffield, from joining Exxon’s board, saying he colluded with OPEC to reduce oil production.
By Clifford Krauss
The low water levels that choked cargo traffic were more closely tied to the natural climate cycle than to human-caused warming, a team of scientists has concluded.
By Raymond Zhong
The carmaker dismissed 500 employees in a unit that was critical to its success and seen as important to the future of electric vehicle sales in the United States.
By Jack Ewing
The Biden administration is tightening efficiency rules for water heaters, stoves and other appliances, and conservative politicians are dialing up their criticisms.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
An effort to protect 30 percent of land and waters would count some commercial fishing zones as conserved areas.
By Catrin Einhorn
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Around the world, grass-roots organizers and Indigenous communities are taking proposed coal, oil and gas projects to court — and winning.
By Delger Erdenesanaa
Russia’s president has signaled an increase in income and corporate taxes that will help finance the war. The move reflects his firm control over Russian policy.
By Paul Sonne
REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.
By Ivan Penn
The administration issued a major climate regulation aimed at virtually eliminating carbon emissions from coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels and a driver of global warming.
By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman
The Biden administration has expressed growing alarm that efforts to fight climate change could falter unless the electric grids are quickly expanded.
By Brad Plumer
Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.
By Delger Erdenesanaa
In theory, getting deliveries can be more efficient than driving to the store. But you may still want to think before you add to cart.
By Dionne Searcey
Despite significant progress, Scotland was falling short on cutting vehicle emissions, switching to heat pumps and even restoring peatland, the government said.
By Somini Sengupta
The decision by a Massachusetts solar company to abandon plans to build a $1.4 billion U.S. factory highlights the risks amid a flood of Chinese clean energy exports.
By Alan Rappeport
Nearly 50 leaders and activists who worked with Mr. Kennedy at an environmental nonprofit group will run ads calling on him to “Honor our planet, drop out.”
By Lisa Friedman
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An international team of researchers found that heavy rains had intensified in the region, though they couldn’t say for sure how much climate change was responsible.
By Raymond Zhong
The measure elevates conservation in a number of ways, including by creating new leases for the restoration of degraded areas.
By Catrin Einhorn
The president is increasingly hitting back with tariffs and other measures meant to restrict imports, raising tensions with Beijing.
By Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
The disaster, intensified by El Niño, is devastating communities across several countries, killing crops and livestock and sending food prices soaring.
By Somini Sengupta and Manuela Andreoni
Mr. Gore spoke at a climate leadership conference hosted by his nonprofit organization.
By Cara Buckley
Rising sea temperatures around the planet have caused a bleaching event that is expected to be the most extensive on record.
By Catrin Einhorn
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