Environment | Opinion

Laws aren’t keeping pace with the risks climate change poses to workers laboring under sweltering conditions.

There were no trees. There was no road. I was the trees, and I was the road. That darkness was like no darkness I’ve ever known.

The city was the best-case scenario for congestion pricing. What does it mean that the plan was shelved?

Success isn’t an Instagrammable skyline.

A congestion pricing plan years in the making was suddenly postponed, threatening mass transit and ensuring continued traffic nightmares.

A “polluters must pay” law would compensate the state for damages and the costs of preparing for future impacts from warming weather.

The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.

Fossil fuel interests are spreading misinformation that renewable energy is harmful, unreliable and worse for consumers.

Currently, the fish are blocked from their most important spawning tributary.

The data shows that Black Americans are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change, from heat waves to extreme flooding.

A yawning hole in the Siberian landscape should be a warning about the dangers of extraction.

On this impossible, glorious planet, any creature who is tuned for beauty is sure to behold it.

Electric vehicles shouldn’t be a luxury item, but Biden’s tariffs mean they may remain so.

We need utilities to succeed now more than ever before. But the definition of success needs to evolve.

The seasonal allergy hill is now an all-year mountain.

Instead of continuing the environmental legacy they were once known for, Republicans have ceded the fight against climate change to Democrats.

We have become so separate from the natural world that we don’t feel safe in the presence of well maintained trees.

“Saving the planet” is the wrong goal.

To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.

The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.

The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.

We need to grapple with the many hidden and little-understood but highly damaging effects of climate change.

The global community must draw bright lines for combatants in future conflicts by creating specific protections for power grids.

Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?

Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.

To find the birds, you have to know them.

The town of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the midst of catastrophe.

I wish I could take a walk and not see the ugly carelessness.

Geologists just rejected a label for our troubled times. Good.

A new satellite will show us the full extent of methane emissions. Will we act?

High-stakes geoengineering science requires transparency and accountability to the public.

Standard time leads to far more vehicles colliding with deer.

The departing climate envoy on what the world has and hasn’t achieved.

We’re entering clima incognita.

Do we really want America to become a backwater of bloated, expensive, gas-guzzling cars?

Flaco’s short life showed that freedom bundled with danger is worth the risk that it may be short and might end badly.

Carve the names of climate change deniers deep and large, so that those who come after us need not search the archives.

Heat death and cataclysmic storms are only the start of our worries.

What the Las Vegas Sphere reveals about the climate crisis.

Climate change, ecology and fire suppression have combined to bring us the return of the “urban firestorm.”

Cultivated meat offered a delicious fantasy: that we can consume our way out of climate catastrophe.

A federal judge’s ruling may hold a glimmer of hope for the Mobile-Tensaw Delta.

Pollution is contributing to Black Americans’ decision to move South, in a trend that is as worrying as it is moving.

In expanding pockets of the West, citizens across the political spectrum are finding common ground as they adjust to living beside wolves.

Information about climate risks is becoming increasingly valuable to companies that want to sell it.

The justices should leave it to federal agencies to resolve ambiguities Congress creates when it writes laws those agencies enforce.

To make it through the gathering disquiet, I will need embodied connection.

The Elfstedentocht, the Dutch skating race through the 11 historic cities of Friesland, hasn’t been held in 26 years. But nobody can admit that it’s gone.

The phrase “wintry mix” fills me with despair. But even so, the lack of cold and ice in 2023 felt unsettling.

President Biden seems nervous about sealing a deal that would improve the health and quality of life of millions of Americans through a stricter rule on truck emissions.

Expanding herds of cashmere goats are causing severe damage to grasslands on the Mongolian plateau in Central Asia.

The idea that free markets can solve societal problems and that climate change can be fixed without regulation is a ruse.

As the climate crisis grows ever more urgent, the U.A.E. is championing a dangerously seductive approach to the problem.

The spare but overpowering landscape celebrated by Willa Cather is one of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet.

The fate of a square mile of Wyoming state land, surrounded by federal land, rests with state officials.

Backpedaling on the environment is not just bad for the future; it’s bad for political prospects.

Rich countries must bear responsibility for the climate crisis and help developing nations end their reliance on fossil fuels.

In the short term, recycling might be the best option we have against our growing waste crisis.

The Aral Sea’s demise matters to us all.

Electric vehicles really are better for the environment than hybrid vehicles that have both gas and electric motors.

Efforts to bring these animals back to America can be a much-needed redemptive act of healing.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate.

America needs to invest in mining and build resilient supply chains for the building blocks of electric batteries.

The rebuilding of Paradise, Calif., feels like a test of human fortitude.

Rich countries must deepen their assistance to developing countries in the path of the weather pattern.

The help Americans receive after disasters isn’t just inadequate; it’s complicated to navigate and painfully slow to arrive.

The simple act of picking up trash, I’ve found, has an outsize effect on my worrying over climate change and ecological catastrophe.

By doubling down on fossil fuels, Exxon Mobil is choosing to profit through the most harmful way to the rest of us.

There is increasing evidence that global warming has accelerated over the past 15 years rather than continued at a gradual, steady pace.

With his latest missive, he has moved from grief and exhortation to a more strident position.

Countries like the Maldives want to move away from fossil fuels but have been stymied by the high cost of solar projects.

Instead of receiving funds to address the climate crisis, African nations are borrowing money to rebuild at a cost up to eight times that of the rich world.

The climate establishment is declaring war on fossil fuels, demanding we keep them in the ground.

Despite their intent to make coastal communities safer, Florida’s building codes can actually complicate long-term resilience efforts.

Why hasn’t the federal government stepped in to remove his cattle from federal land?

The state’s governor has asked the Supreme Court to resurrect a widely opposed plan rejected by the federal government.

We have betrayed the millions of other species with whom we share this leafy paradise with an extractive culture.

The president’s answer to the climate crisis has been, in one word, more. But more won’t cut it with fossil fuels.

Aging dams are a threat around the world. Our best tool is removing them altogether.

The oceans may be our best shot at addressing the climate catastrophe.

We have to come to terms with 20-year setbacks in a time of rapid, if uneven, progress.

We need to meet people resisting wind and solar power with gentleness and curiosity.

If the trash is on the street, the rats are going to eat.

A hapless effort to protect a shrinking caribou herd has come in for criticism by wildlife experts.

As the red rock desert broils us in beauty, will we have to leave?

Ten years ago, I swam from Cuba to Florida. I couldn’t make that swim today.

Like other island dots in our rising oceans, Hawaii is unusually imperiled and must do something about planetary crisis.

It seems increasingly evident that the oil industry is unable or unwilling to help chart a path toward a cleaner energy future.

Unpredictable climate change is the new status quo.

The idea of a “new normal” steals from us the possibility of being transformed, for better or worse.

Evolution’s curse of creeping deafness changes how a biologist experiences nature.

With few exceptions, you either let yourself learn from your competitors or you fail to compete with them at all.

In Vermont, the climate is jumping the banks and blowing past the guardrails.

Global warming is accelerating, and it’s starting to show.

Extreme heat is the engine of planetary chaos. We ignore it at our peril.

As regulated monopolies, utilities have the unique ability to force customers to fund their political activities through monthly bills.

Like the smoke particles that seep into our homes through a window crack, the effects of fossil fuel pollution put nearly every child at risk.

The sky has enormous power to shape our lives and to signal how disrupted our climate is becoming.

A recent study said preserving existing forests was more important than planting new ones in the limited time we have to slow global warming.

Legislators took a major step in making sure that American agriculture policy has a climate lens. But the next Farm Bill could derail it.