NYTimes - Environment

The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.

Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget Sound.

The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.

The technology is far from the only existential risk our species faces. But weighing such cosmic fears can become a mind-bending exercise.

Low rainfall and shrinking rivers are causing shipping bottlenecks, and higher prices, around the world.

Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.

Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.

Sweltering summer temperatures put last month on par with July 2023 for global warmth, scientists said. More records could be broken in the months ahead.

Yes, El Niño is unusually powerful this time. But that’s not always a bad thing.

Two lawsuits seek to reverse the Trump administration’s moves to open the habitats of imperiled wildlife to commercial activities.

As British farmers confront intense heat waves tied to climate change, some are cultivating new crops rarely grown in their country.

Plus, the State Fair by the numbers.

The agency played an important role in responding to earlier disasters like the 2015 earthquake. But the U.S. and other countries have pulled back, Nepali officials and humanitarian groups say.

The Pentagon has again postponed PFAS cleanups at hundreds of military sites, in some cases up to 19 years, prompting bipartisan anger in Congress.

The state is considering extending the life of its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, and allowing construction of new reactors to help meet its clean energy goals.

Melting ice is opening a trade route through the Arctic. China has begun the first regular service, part of its polar ambitions.

No company in the United States has ever restarted a reactor that was seemingly closed for good, but there are now three major efforts underway to do so.

In an era of heavy rain, a transit system with 47,000 openings is bound to leak.

A recycling law coming into force now could change fashion.

The electric automaker’s new R2 takes what works from its bigger, costlier brother and adds a host of features with the mass market in mind.