NYTimes - Environment

The re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to lead to continued rainforest protections. His opponent wanted to make it easier to clear land.

They’re transforming cities with million-dollar views and a message of modernity. But climate change makes cooling them tricky and costly.

Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the Environmental Protection Agency, and then helped President Trump undo regulations meant to protect millions of Americans from toxic air pollution.

The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

Chemical plants and other industrial facilities had been required to curb their toxic emissions. A New York Times investigation shows how they got out of it.

A New York Times investigation shows how President Trump allowed companies to skirt rules designed to limit toxic pollution.

In Ohio, many voters say their frustration about the increase in electricity and fuel prices and the growth of data centers won’t influence whom they vote for.

This summer’s heat was the continent’s deadliest by far this century, according to new peer-reviewed estimates.

From Brazil to the North Sea, economic interests have been edging out climate priorities this week.

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have dangled FEMA money to disaster-struck states during recent campaign rallies.

Trees are suffering one devastating epidemic after another, unleashed by insects and bacteria that enter the country because of global trade.

If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef.

The tech giant is funding one of the nation’s largest “virtual power plants,” which would pay homes and businesses to adjust their energy use when grids are strained.

The project will lessen the country’s dependence on imported energy, though environmental advocates say it undercuts a pledge to reduce carbon emissions.

The scientific report, identifies the United States as an outlier among the nations responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions.

Jackdaw, a natural gas field off the coast of Scotland, would be the first new gas extraction project in the North Sea since a government moratorium in 2024.

Threats hiding in plain sight could upend forests far and wide.

In “Bogland,” Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.

Covering a flood powerful enough to disrupt the dead.

The dire projections come from the state’s Climate Change Assessment, which analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nation’s most-populous state.