Climate and Environment

A multibillion-dollar effort to build the first in a new generation of American nuclear power plants is underway outside a small town in Wyoming.

By Sabrina Tavernise, Brad Plumer, Alex Stern, Diana Nguyen, Sydney Harper, Shannon M. Lin, Lexie Diao, Brendan Klinkenberg, Rowan Niemisto, Pat McCusker and Chris Wood

They can be, but it depends on your driving habits. We break it down for you.

By Jack Ewing

Plug-and-play solar panels are popping up in yards and on balcony railings across Germany, driven by bargain prices and looser regulations.

By Melissa Eddy

After a period of openly using movies to display progressive values, studios seem to be heeding a message from many ticket buyers: Just entertain us.

By Brooks Barnes

A growing cohort of young farmers is experimenting with ways to mitigate the impact of flooding and other extreme weather.

By Jenna Russell

Blazes that generate such stormy conditions can be nearly impossible to put out and pose special dangers to firefighters.

By Austyn Gaffney

Your climate change and environment questions answered by Times journalists and experts.

Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Safiya Sinclair, Michael Cunningham, Tasha Sylva and more.

By Shreya Chattopadhyay

Wildfire smoke from the Western United States and Canada is blowing across the Northeast, lowering air quality and endangering vulnerable populations.

By Austyn Gaffney

The authorities arrested a man believed to have started the fire north of Sacramento. A second fire in eastern Oregon, affecting more than 268,000 acres, is now the largest in the country.

By Heather Knight, Mike Baker and Amanda Holpuch

Possible contenders to join the Harris ticket include three governors who welcome clean energy and a senator concerned by extreme heat and drought.

By Austyn Gaffney

Vinyl chloride, used to make things like PVC pipes and packaging, is also toxic and highly flammable, and was at the center of a major train disaster in Ohio last year.

By Hiroko Tabuchi

Researchers with the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said Sunday was Earth’s hottest day. Then it happened again on Monday.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

Research showed truck-related releases of nitrogen dioxide, which can cause asthma, concentrated around some 150,000 warehouses nationwide.

By Hiroko Tabuchi

The former president’s comments on E.V.s have shifted since he has grown more friendly with Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla.

By Lisa Friedman

A waterlogged hillside above a village gave way, burying several houses in mud. Neighbors and rescue workers who had rushed to help were hit by a second slide.

By Lynsey Chutel and Kumerra Gemechu

Large blazes in the province have led to the evacuation of thousands of people.

By Qasim Nauman

She pursued polluters as attorney general in California and later staked out bold positions as a senator, including sponsorship of the Green New Deal.

By Lisa Friedman

States, tribes, local governments and territories sent in proposals aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

By Austyn Gaffney

After a blistering weekend, particularly in inland areas farther from the coast, cooler temperatures are expected beginning early this week.

By Isabelle Taft

She wants to protect the right to abortion nationally. Here’s what else to know about her positions.

By Maggie Astor

Dionne Searcey traveled to Wymore, Neb., where she grew up, to learn about some residents’ resistance to a new battery-powered bus.

By Dionne Searcey

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

Ford, General Motors and other automakers are slowing investments in electric vehicles and doubling down on more profitable gasoline cars and trucks.

By Neal E. Boudette

Analysts are seeing promising signs from the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

By Max Bearak

A Westchester County suburb updated its law about tree removals from yards, upsetting tree advocates, who want stricter rules, and residents who don’t want to be told what to do.

By Hilary Howard

The largest population of the endangered Siamese crocodiles this century hatched in Cambodia, a big moment for the conservation of a wild species once on the brink of extinction.

By Austyn Gaffney

A report by a government body that oversees efforts to reduce greenhouse gases will help underpin the Labour Party’s plans to accelerate renewable energy and other measures.

By Stanley Reed

The dated U.S. rail infrastructure is struggling to stay operational as climate change accelerates and intense heat waves, downpours and high winds become more frequent.

By Minho Kim

Landlords have to keep tenants warm in the winter, but can leave them sweating in the summer. A city councilman wants to change that.

By Hilary Howard

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

Devastating, back-to-back power outages have led some in Houston to consider whether they want to stay in the city they love.

By J. David Goodman

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

The hot spell will continue until Thursday, officials predict, and the city and surrounding areas were placed under a heat advisory.

By Lola Fadulu

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

As the event opens with a focus on energy, former President Trump and other leaders are calling for more oil, gas and coal development.

By Lisa Friedman

At a county fair near Fargo, many residents shrugged off the heat, at least for one day.

By Kate Selig

Conventional toilet paper has a big environmental impact. We’ve got the lowdown on alternatives, from bamboo tissue to bidets.

By Elizabeth Anne Brown

Property insurers are trying to force changes in construction standards that they say are necessary to protect against wildfires.

By Emily Flitter

Rental car firms are offering temporary deals on electric cars, which they are selling after they lost value more quickly than expected.

By Jack Ewing and Dionne Searcey

With Fortitude Ranch, the entrepreneur Drew Miller is betting on franchised timeshares for people who are worried about the end of the world.

By Alexander Nazaryan and Emily Najera

Huge blazes are spreading hundreds of miles across some of the most biodiverse parts of Brazil, with the worst of the annual fire season still weeks away.

By Ana Ionova

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

The Sunrise Movement, expressing concern about the president’s ability to win re-election, said he should “pass the torch to a new nominee.”

By Lisa Friedman

Land restored by local residents in Borneo drew an array of wildlife after nonprofit groups first addressed the needs of nearby villagers.

By Cara Buckley

The burning of fossil fuels has created more frequent and more intense heat waves. Experts warn these heat waves are “the new normal.”

By Austyn Gaffney

A “fossil chromosome” preserves the structure of a woolly mammoth’s genome — and offers a better grasp of how it once worked.

By Siobhan Roberts

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

A Jeep plant that closed last year will be among those that will benefit from federal grants meant to help automotive manufacturers and protect jobs.

By Jack Ewing

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

Though operators are building ships, and towns are investing in landings and other infrastructure, fluctuations in the river’s flow, exacerbated by climate change, are hampering sailings.

By Rowan Moore Gerety

The state has had more than 3,500 wildfires this year, and the peak of the annual fire season has yet to arrive.

By Jill Cowan and Jonathan Wolfe

In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately “protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.”

By Sam Roberts

Climate change is causing more fires to burn overnight, growing bigger, lasting longer and challenging the fire teams trying to control them.

By Austyn Gaffney

Melting glaciers on Peru’s highest mountain helped uncover the body of Bill Stampfl, who disappeared while climbing the mountain with two friends.

By Yan Zhuang and Mitra Taj

New restrictions are meant to reduce damage during floods. The rules were first proposed in 2016, then the Trump administration scrapped them.

By Christopher Flavelle

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

Analysts warn that the Labour Party’s proposals are unlikely to be cheap and could come at the cost of jobs in the oil and gas industry.

By Stanley Reed

Using ground-based radars, he pioneered measurement techniques that scientists now use to chart geographical changes on Earth.

By Michael S. Rosenwald

A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.

By Jack Ewing

Climate change and widely varied state regulations could mean you’re paying too much or far too little to insure your home.

By Christopher Flavelle

An Oklahoma Republican who led the Environment Committee, he took hard-right stands on many issues but was especially vocal in challenging evidence of global warming.

By Robert D. McFadden

In tiny Wymore, Neb., a sleek new battery-powered school bus became a Rorschach test for the future.

By Dionne Searcey and George Etheredge

After thousands of sequoias were destroyed by extreme wildfires, tribes are conducting cultural burns.

By Jim Robbins and Eros Hoagland

Insurance premiums are surging unevenly across the country. Your rates might be out of step with risks.

By Mira Rojanasakul and Christopher Flavelle

July has brought a record-breaking hurricane, early-season wildfires and triple-digit temperatures. Judson Jones, a meteorologist and reporter, cleared up the connections between the events.

By Emmett Lindner

Temperature records have been shattered from California and Nevada to North Carolina in the last few days, and relief is still days away, forecasters say.

By Jacey Fortin and Jonathan Wolfe

More than 100 million years ago, scientists say, warming seas and reduced oxygen may have sent some sharks higher into the water column, where they evolved to be fierce and hungry.

By Jeanne Timmons

The Danish capital is offering free museum tours, art workshops and more to visitors who take part in climate-friendly initiatives.

By Ceylan Yeğinsu

Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease.

By Kang-Chun Cheng and Apoorva Mandavilli

In this monsoon season, so far there have been more than 60 weather-related fatalities. With roads cut off and more rain expected, the toll could rise.

By Bhadra Sharma

Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, endured days of temperatures above 100 Fahrenheit, made worse by power cuts and high humidity.

By Zia ur-Rehman

Oil sands companies pushing a carbon capture project shut down their website after a law banning misleading environmental claims was passed.

By Ian Austen

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

To help make the Olympic Games in Paris greener, Le Pavé, a manufacturing start-up, is making podiums and stadium seating out of recycled plastic.

By Liz Alderman

A new analysis shows increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes could cause more devastating interruptions to the power grid.

By Austyn Gaffney

The new government, to be led by Labour, has pledged to fast-track a green energy transition. It will face big challenges.

By Somini Sengupta

Residents moved to Mountain House, Calif., to escape soaring housing costs near the coast. Now, they just have to survive the searing summer heat.

By Jonathan Wolfe and Mike Kai Chen

Gathering data from directly inside the storm can help emergency managers prepare for what’s to come.

By Austyn Gaffney

The agency reached a settlement with the automaker over the sales of SUVs and pickups that emitted excess planet-warming carbon dioxide.

By Coral Davenport

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

Global warming is hitting the entire Northeast particularly hard, according to figures provided by Climate Central, a nonprofit group.

By Hilary Howard

Here’s how the end of the Chevron doctrine could affect climate regulation.

By David Gelles and Manuela Andreoni

The speed of decline in the Juneau Ice Field, an expanse of 1,050 interconnected glaciers, has doubled in recent decades, scientists discovered.

By Raymond Zhong

The Tesla chief executive’s polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.

By Jack Ewing

The proposed regulation comes as California and Oregon brace for a punishing heat wave.

By Lisa Friedman and Noah Weiland

Cargo ships off California are reducing speeds as part of an unusual race designed to protect some very large local residents.

By Cara Buckley

President Biden had paused new natural gas export terminals to assess their effects on the climate, economy and national security. A federal judge disagreed.

By Coral Davenport

Flooding in Ruidoso, N.M., over the weekend showed how wildfire damage, worsening under climate change, can put people at even greater risk than the fires themselves.

By Austyn Gaffney

You need to weigh your budget, but it does have benefits. Including some that are not obvious.

By Susan Shain

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

The Interior Department rejected a proposed industrial road through pristine land in Alaska that was needed to reach an estimated $7.5 billion copper deposit.

By Lisa Friedman

Stress, ovarian cancer, buoyancy disorders: Every pet has its troubles, and needs a good doctor who makes house calls.

By Emily Anthes and Nic Coury

Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. But research tells a surprising story.

By Raymond Zhong, Jason Gulley, Karen Hanley and Alexandra Ostasiewicz

The calf, named Wakan Gli, is said to fulfill a Lakota prophecy that brings hope, but its birth is also a sign that more must be done to protect the Earth, a Lakota spiritual leader says.

By Aimee Ortiz

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

Ahead of the first presidential debate, we examined the climate stakes in this year’s election.

By Manuela Andreoni