Environment | Opinion

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.