Three Ideas to Beat the Heat, and the People Who Made Them Happen
As temperatures soar around the world, practical experiments are emerging to protect people.
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As temperatures soar around the world, practical experiments are emerging to protect people.
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In a changing climate, extreme wildfire events are becoming far more common and more intense, according to a new analysis.
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A sharp increase in hardware orbiting Earth could mean more harmful metals lingering in the atmosphere, according to a new study.
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The state agreed to take steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. It’s the latest of several victories for youth-led climate lawsuits.
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As Solar Power Surges, U.S. Wind Is in Trouble
A 2022 climate law was expected to set off a boom in renewable energy. So far, that’s only come partly true.
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As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose
It’s not just California and Florida now: Insurers are losing money around the country. It means higher rates and, sometimes, cancellation notices.
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A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals
A boom in data centers and factories is straining electric grids and propping up fossil fuels.
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Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing.
Did you know the “recycling” symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable? Play our trashy garbage-sorting game, then read about why this is so tricky.
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Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here.
What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small.
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The Heat Crisis Is a Housing Crisis
A lack of affordable housing and high energy costs are making Americans more vulnerable to record-breaking heat, public health experts say.
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On-air meteorologists have become a target in the culture wars as they report on the effects of climate change.
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Why Longer Heat Waves Are So Dangerous
Researchers have found that longer-lasting heat waves can be deadlier and can pose unique health risks.
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Is the Fight Against Big Oil Headed to the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court may soon decide the fate of dozens of cases brought by cities and states that seek to hold fossil fuel companies accountable.
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Record-breaking temperatures are pushing experts and public health officials to come up with a new vocabulary to warn the public about extreme heat.
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Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. But research tells a surprising story: Many islands are stable. Some have even grown.
By Raymond Zhong and Jason Gulley
A fatal fungal disease has devastated the world’s amphibians. But the fungus has a vulnerability: It cannot tolerate heat.
By Emily Anthes
President Biden’s landmark climate law could be repealed in a Trump administration. Economists said that would jeopardize $488 billion in American investments.
By Lisa Friedman
Many American dams are aging and in need of serious repairs. Climate change only makes the problem more urgent.
By Mitch Smith
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
The deaths of at least 1,300 pilgrims during the hajj point to the growing threat that climate change poses to beloved gatherings.
By Damien Cave and Somini Sengupta
The number of deaths during the annual Islamic pilgrimage raised questions about Saudi Arabia’s preparations for intense heat and unregistered participants.
By Cassandra Vinograd and Vivian Nereim
With the sea creatures making up a growing share of illegal animal seizures around the world, U.S. officials are working to overcome struggles to safely house them.
By Jason Bittel
The heat was especially oppressive in urban areas of New Jersey, a state that climate experts say is warming at a faster rate than others in the Northeast.
By Erin Nolan and Mark Bonamo
A storm left about 9,000 people without power for three days.
By Kate Selig
Previously, local council and planning groups in Britain had to weigh only the planet-warming emissions from their own operations.
By Jenny Gross
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
Global warming has led to more extreme weather earlier and later in the year, causing New Yorkers to rethink their relationship to the seasonal calendar.
By Hilary Howard
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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
The founder of the renowned Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, he also helped shape U.S. policies on controlling toxic substances like DDT.
By Keith Schneider
Researchers analyzed a skull found in Montana of a plant-eating member of the ceratops family, finding distinct traits.
By Asher Elbein
Extreme heat across parts of Central America and the Southern United States in May and early June was 35 times more likely because of human-caused global warming, according to a new report.
By Austyn Gaffney
Most strategies in the U.S. for helping people stay cool are geared toward urban areas, leaving behind vulnerable rural populations.
By Dionne Searcey
Chris Gloninger said he was hired to talk about global warming in his forecasts. That’s when things heated up.
By Cara Buckley
Portfolio managers have conflicting incentives as the economic and financial risks from climate change become more apparent but remain imprecise.
By Lydia DePillis
In “Adventures in Volcanoland,” the geologist Tamsin Mather takes us on a global and historical investigation of her life’s passion.
By Carl Zimmer
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Thousands died and people slept on roofs to cope with the early heat wave, which was supercharged by agricultural practices.
By Tim Balk
With temperatures climbing this week, here’s how to be comfortable in your home — with or without air-conditioning.
By Anna Kodé
A new play from the writers of “The Jungle” dramatizes the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a landmark climate agreement preceded by years of arguments over its wording.
By Alex Marshall
Wet towels and body bags filled with ice water are being used to quickly cool victims, which is essential to saving lives.
By Dionne Searcey
A federal judge ruled that the case was moot after the investor, Arjuna Capital, withdrew the proposal with a promise not to try again.
By Sydney Ember
The labor and environmental groups are pushing the change so relief funds can be used in more situations.
By Manuela Andreoni
While trying to save large amphibians native to Japan, herpetologists in the country unexpectedly found a way to potentially save an even bigger species in China.
By Rachel Nuwer and Chang W. Lee
Every little bit helps. But doing it wrong can actually make matters worse.
By Winston Choi-Schagrin
Stifling conditions are forecast to spread this week over the eastern half of America — and linger for days.
By Jill Cowan
Europe’s climate change-minded parties performed poorly in the European Union elections. Is the once ambitious European green movement over, or could its electoral crash launch a rebirth?
By Matina Stevis-Gridneff
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The NOAA Climate Prediction Center announced an end to the El Niño climate phenomenon on Thursday, and predicted that La Niña could start as early as next month.
By Austyn Gaffney
In earlier races for the White House, he pledged to get miners back to work. Now, political and economic realities have shifted.
By Lisa Friedman
Leaders from India, Brazil, the Middle East and Africa joined discussions in a nod to the changing global balance of power.
By Mark Landler and Steven Erlanger
Between days of excessive heat and days of unrelenting storms, the summer rainy season is starting to feel different — and highly unpredictable.
By Patricia Mazzei
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
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
Nate Smith, an actor and activist, will have a role in a production organized by Theater of War Productions on the TKTS Times Square steps.
By James Barron
Scientists and officials spent days at sea searching for vaquitas, shy porpoises threatened by fishing gear.
By Catrin Einhorn
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
Tenjen Lama Sherpa was one of the most storied mountain guides of his generation. Now, he and two of his brothers are dead, and their youngest brother must keep climbing to make a living.
By Hannah Beech and Bhadra Sharma
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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
The Environmental Defense Fund, entering controversial territory, will spend millions of dollars examining the impact of reflecting sunlight into space as global warming worsens.
By Christopher Flavelle
Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has stepped into the spotlight as a cheerleader for oil and former President Donald J. Trump.
By Lisa Friedman
The main things to know as voters in 27 countries head to the ballot box to shape the next five years of European Union policies.
By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Sarah Hurtes
Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.
By Jennifer Szalai
The new measure requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon for all the car models they sell by 2031.
By Coral Davenport
In overheated Phoenix, firefighters are carrying giant plastic, ice-filled bags to quickly cool people, a technique pioneered in the military and at sporting events.
By Dionne Searcey
Homeowners in areas battered by climate disasters are facing dizzying insurance rate increases. But builders of housing for the homeless and other low-income families are also struggling.
By David W. Chen
Hundreds of millions of people around the world have recently voted in elections with important climate issues like extreme heat and coal dependence.
By Manuela Andreoni
Nearly 19 million people across the Southwest were under an excessive heat warning Thursday, when several cities were expected to tie or even break heat records.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
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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
They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.
By Darren Incorvaia
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
The chemical, N-Methylpyrrolidone, or NMP, has been linked to miscarriages, reduced male fertility and other health problems.
By Coral Davenport
The struggle of the world’s largest source of renewable last year could have important implications for the fight against climate change.
By Manuela Andreoni
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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Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s next leader, is an academic and a politician. Here’s what her track record reveals.
By Somini Sengupta
Several towns declared states of emergency and evacuated citizens as water submerged streets and highways and derailed a high-speed train.
By Christopher F. Schuetze
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
Under the country’s first “climate superfund” law, Vermont will charge large emitters for climate-related damage to the state.
By Manuela Andreoni
Environmental groups are making a new economic argument against coal, the heaviest polluting fossil fuel. Some regulators are listening.
By Minho Kim
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