NYTimes - Environment

In a year of grim climate and environment news, we’ve compiled several hopeful signs about our planet’s future.

Scientists long believed it would take more than a century for animals to return to deforested land. New research shows that’s not always the case.

Faced with a devastating snow drought and record-high March temperatures, some resorts closed early. But at Aspen Mountain, die-hards celebrated the last day of the season on Sunday.

The energy industry is planning for a future where the choke point on Iran’s southern coast is a lot less important.

Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of life.

Opponents of the project, known as Kaskida, say an accident could be even worse than the Deepwater Horizon spill. The company says it’s learned from the past.

Scientists in Sweden made an unexpected discovery when they exposed the fish to the illegal drug as well as another substance.

San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies.

The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor.

The administration has invoked national security in a variety of matters, including the White House ballroom and offshore wind farms, drawing rebukes from some judges.

Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power.

In comments on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed the scientific consensus on the causes of climate change.

The New York Times obtained a trove of documents illuminating the inner workings of the court as it embraced a secretive track for making major decisions.

San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies.

The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.

Amit Forlit is accused of running a hacking operation that aimed to thwart climate litigation at the behest of a lobbying firm working for an oil giant.

Extreme heat is extremely hard on your vehicle, but a few simple precautions can help a lot.

In a setback for federal efforts to thwart climate litigation, the judge ruled that the suit, which tried to block the state from suing oil companies, was too speculative.

Microsoft is pulling back from efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere. But the nascent industry’s proponents say they are thinking in decades, not years.

The move was a victory for a Chilean company that wants to build a copper and nickel mine, which environmentalists say could devastate fragile lakes and forests.