Climate and Environment

Residents say Mr. Musk’s data center for artificial intelligence is compounding their pollution burden and adding stress on the local electrical grid.

By Ivan Penn and Kate Conger

The vote, in a sunny state with huge solar potential, reflects a growing nationwide fight over America’s energy transition.

By Austyn Gaffney

At least 158 people were killed after the downpour, which some residents said was the worst they had ever witnessed.

By Emma Bubola, Isabella Kwai and José Bautista

“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.

By Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

The tariffs, some as high as 45 percent, are intended to protect Europe’s automotive sector, but they could escalate a trade war with China.

By Melissa Eddy and Jenny Gross

New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago.

By Franz Lidz

Ford is struggling to make money on battery-powered models while General Motors, which started more slowly, says it is getting close to that goal.

By Neal E. Boudette

A storage facility in Norway built to safeguard crop diversity recently received more than 30,000 samples as concerns grow about climate change and food insecurity.

By Amelia Nierenberg

The energy giant’s chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, has taken a profit-oriented approach and said in an interview that the company’s “principal aim” was increasing earnings.

By Stanley Reed

Dayenu, a nonprofit group, is mobilizing Jews around a threat that organizers warn every walk of life on earth must confront: climate change.

By Cara Buckley

“Tree islands” deep in a sea of grass once helped Native Americans elude capture by U.S. troops. A tour of these refuges reveals a rich culture and a new risk: rising water.

By Jennifer Reed

A philosopher journeys into the world of comparative thanatology, which explores how animals of all kinds respond to death and dying.

By Emily Anthes

They emit harmful pollutants, which makes good ventilation crucial.

By Austyn Gaffney

They play an essential role in supporting life on Earth, but many species are in decline, researchers found.

By Catrin Einhorn

Kamala Harris calls global warming an “existential threat.” Donald Trump dismisses it as a “scam.”

By Lisa Friedman

A utility sends phone alerts when wind power is cheap. A builder sells “zero bill” houses. They’re among several experiments to redefine how people value electricity.

By Somini Sengupta and Andrew Testa

With a new database of medical images, zoo and wildlife vets can finally see what healthy uncommon animals, from rhinos and tamarins to pangolins and sea stars, should look like on the inside.

By Emily Anthes

Museum and gallery shows in Seattle, New York, England and beyond are engaging visitors’ hearts and minds through all of their senses.

By Lauren Gallow

The body’s cooling defenses fail at lower “wet bulb” temperatures than scientists had estimated.

By Clayton Dalton

A third of state residents use private wells, and about four out of 10 wells tested after Hurricane Helene weren’t safe, highlighting the risks of extreme weather for millions of Americans.

By Mira Rojanasakul and Hiroko Tabuchi

Environmentalists and one of the world’s biggest oil companies support Washington State’s cap on carbon. But voters are deciding whether to repeal the law amid concerns about energy costs.

By Mike Baker and Coral Davenport

Museums, galleries and other art institutions are looking for measures to reduce their environmental footprints.

By Alina Tugend

Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases.

By Maya Misikir and Stephanie Nolen

In recent decades, fast-growing blazes were responsible for an outsize share of fire-related devastation, scientists found using satellite data.

By Raymond Zhong

She lived to 28, roaming the Yellowstone area with her many offspring while becoming a favorite among both residents and visitors.

By Christine Peterson

An annual assessment by the world body tracks the gulf between what countries have vowed to do and what they’ve actually achieved.

By Brad Plumer

The new rules consider any detectable level of lead dust in a building a “lead hazard,” requiring property owners to pay for cleanup.

By Hiroko Tabuchi

Much of the food we eat is grown with synthetic fertilizer, which is a huge source of climate change. But now, a seed with DNA-modified bacteria is reducing the amount of synthetic fertilizer that farmers have to apply to their fields. Eric Lipton, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains.

By Eric Lipton, Karen Hanley, Christina Shaman, Farah Otero-Amad, Ruru Kuo and Ray Whitehouse

By tweaking the DNA of bacteria, scientists aim to cut the use of chemical fertilizers that are worsening global warming. Some worry about unintended consequences.

By Eric Lipton and Amir Hamja

The company said profits climbed 17 percent in the third quarter. It expects car sales to rise up to 30 percent next year when it plans to begin selling new models.

By Jack Ewing

The company said other blades had a “manufacturing deviation” similar to a blade that shattered in July off the coast of Nantucket.

By Stanley Reed

Destruction arrives not via solemn news reports but in a barrage of digital scraps — first-person views of what it looks like when the world changes.

By Brooke Jarvis

Fuel prices, which had soared after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have dropped to their lowest level since February.

By Rebecca F. Elliott

We explain how the country is responding in three different ways to disasters.

By Christopher Flavelle

Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. The stalled work threatens to leave the West without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up.

By Jacob Judah

Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop.

By River Akira Davis, Hisako Ueno and Noriko Hayashi

When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative.

By Rory Smith and Andrew Testa

Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient.

By Ivan Penn and Rebecca F. Elliott

Delegates from around the world are meeting in Colombia in what is expected to be the biggest U.N. biodiversity conference in history.

By Catrin Einhorn

Deadly landslides are increasing around the world. But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial.

By Austyn Gaffney and Christopher Miller

We’ve got tips to make the holiday more sustainable, and maybe more fun, too.

By Austyn Gaffney

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up.

By Julie Turkewitz, Ana Ionova and José María León Cabrera

By learning the secrets of 2,000-year-old cement, researchers are trying to devise greener, more durable modern options.

By Amos Zeeberg

The Supreme Court’s decision to not temporarily block an E.P.A. rule this week signals ‘rising influence’ of Justice Barrett, one analyst said.

By Karen Zraick

Eoghan Daltun rewilded his land in West Cork and wants more of Ireland to do the same.

By Cara Buckley

Some 90 percent of the economy in this coastal California region relies on visitors. But overtourism, the high cost of living and most worrisome, the effects of global warming, create a future of uncertainty.

By Lauren Sloss

Winter is coming. But will it bring snow? NOAA announced its annual winter outlook on Thursday.

By Judson Jones

Carbon emissions from forest fires increased more than 60 percent globally over the past two decades, according to a new study.

By Austyn Gaffney

Mary Barra, G.M.’s chief executive, said that the company had fixed battery-manufacturing problems and that its electric vehicles would soon be profitable.

By Jack Ewing

With a new kind of microscope, researchers got a different view of how marine snow falls to the seafloor.

By Veronique Greenwood

Food production is concentrated in too few countries, many of which face water shortages, the researchers said.

By Somini Sengupta

The justices heard arguments on Wednesday in a long-simmering dispute between San Francisco and the E.P.A. over regulation of water pollution.

By Abbie VanSickle

It was a provisional victory for the Biden administration, whose climate initiatives have been stymied. A challenge to the rule at issue is still moving through a lower court.

By Abbie VanSickle

Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for artificial intelligence and other businesses.

By Ivan Penn and Karen Weise

In an elaborate experiment, scientists discovered that the insects chose to hibernate in soil full of pesticides and other poisons.

By Darren Incorvaia

Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found polyester and other plastics in every animal they tested.

By Hiroko Tabuchi

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form.

By Daryln Brewer Hoffstot and Kristian Thacker

A surge in power use worldwide could make it harder for nations to slash emissions and keep global warming in check.

By Brad Plumer

On the west coast of Florida, a town built to weather hurricanes hosted more than 2,000 people during Hurricane Milton. Could communities like this help shape Florida’s future?

By Austyn Gaffney

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned.

By Mara Hvistendahl and Joy Dong

These productions are grappling with climate change, reproductive rights, the Arab Spring and accusations of sexual assault.

By Kellina Moore

Millions of Americans, many poor and vulnerable, live in mobile and manufactured homes. When catastrophe strikes, they’re often on their own.

By Hilary Howard, Christopher Flavelle and Caitlin Ochs

A second Trump administration would be expected to shred climate policies. California officials are devising ways to insulate its environmental regulations.

By Coral Davenport

Greenhouse gas emissions added rain, intensified winds and doubled the storm’s potential property damage, scientists estimated.

By Raymond Zhong

We cover each presidential candidate’s climate policies.

By Lisa Friedman

Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do they manage it? Scientists built a flight chamber to find out.

By Emily Anthes and Ian Willms

Millions of Americans have moved to the Sunshine State over the last several decades, only to see Florida’s future collide with climate change.

By David Gelles

The lawsuit alleges that the utility knew of the dangers of burning fossil fuels and misled its customers.

By Karen Zraick

Travel is an opportunity. It’s an economic driver. But it also contributes to global warming. So a Travel editor went back to school to explore the moral dilemma it poses.

By Elisabeth Goodridge

The results from an important ongoing assessment look grim. But the survey is often misunderstood.

By Catrin Einhorn

In his next documentary, Michael P. Nash takes on A.I. and how it might be used to address environmental issues.

By Shivani Vora

MacDill Air Force Base, south of Tampa, was swamped by Helene’s storm surge, and may see worse flooding from Milton.

By Rachel Nostrant

How did Hurricane Milton, and Hurricane Helene before it, get so strong, so fast? Raymond Zhong, a reporter focusing on climate and environmental issues for The New York Times, explains.

By Raymond Zhong, Christina Shaman, Gabriel Blanco, David Seekamp and James Surdam

E.V. batteries that are submerged in saltwater can catch fire after the floods subside, but experts say it’s a rarity.

By Austyn Gaffney and Brad Plumer

A sprawling network of ravines threaded through Canada’s largest city offers urban explorers an oasis of birdsong, burbling creeks and whispering trees.

By Meghan Davidson Ladly

In cooler times, a similarly rare storm over the Southeast would have delivered less rain and weaker winds, a team of scientists concluded in an analysis.

By Raymond Zhong

A famed explorer was sure the ice hid something profound. Ninety years later, scientists have put forth the strongest evidence yet that he was right.

By Raymond Zhong and Jason Gulley

John Morales, who has forecast weather for decades, went viral after choking up on air while discussing Hurricane Milton.

By Cara Buckley

In her last newsletter for the Times, a Climate Forward reporter reflects on the intertwined problems of climate change and biodiversity loss.

By Manuela Andreoni

Milton grew into a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day as it crossed warm oceans across the Gulf of Mexico.

By Austyn Gaffney and Mira Rojanasakul

New rules will require utilities to replace lead pipes nationwide. That will take time, but you can protect yourself by taking these steps.

By Hiroko Tabuchi

The “historic” rule aims to eliminate a major source of lead poisoning and comes a decade after a drinking-water crisis in Flint, Mich.

By Zach Montague and Hiroko Tabuchi

The waters of the Atlantic Ocean have been abnormally warm, providing copious amounts of energy that can intensify storms.

By Raymond Zhong and Mira Rojanasakul

Fewer than 10 percent of the agency’s disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities.

By Christopher Flavelle

The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.

By Lydia DePillis

School closures and traumatic experiences could affect children long after schools reopen. Experts worry that similar scenarios are happening with much more frequency because of climate change.

By Troy Closson and Edgar Sandoval

They’re almost everywhere. And they’re bad. But there are some things you can do to avoid them.

By Hiroko Tabuchi

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway.

By Ana Ionova

Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted from one of the world’s most polluting industries.

By Stanley Reed

After Helene, it may be time to rethink how to communicate the risks posed by storms, especially extreme rain.

By Aatish Bhatia

Experts offered plenty of advice about ways to make the disaster-recovery process work. Here’s what to do and what to avoid.

By Christopher Flavelle and Emily Flitter

City officials have refused to provide estimates of when the devastated water system in Asheville, N.C., will be back in operation.

By Mark Barrett, Jacob Flannick and Nick Madigan

Republican-led states and industry groups argued that the Environmental Protection Agency had moved too fast and imposed onerous regulations.

By Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak

The discovery that sound improves the growth rate of beneficial fungus suggests that dirges in the dirt may help restore forests.

By Veronique Greenwood

A severe overnight rainstorm in the Balkans left several towns and villages flooded. Record summer temperatures had caused a drought that hampered the absorption of floodwaters.

By Lynsey Chutel

Two proposals in Northern England, led by the energy giants BP and Eni, aim to establish an industry in burying emissions from industrial plants.

By Stanley Reed

European Union officials say the duties are meant to protect the region’s automakers from what they say are unfair trade practices in China.

By Melissa Eddy and Jenny Gross

Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It dates to the time of the Neanderthals.

By Franz Lidz

Who was behind a national campaign to ban geoengineering? One reporter went down a few rabbit holes to find out.

By Christopher Flavelle

In a new weekly feature of our Climate Forward newsletter, we’re covering the vast amount of investment, ingenuity and scientific expertise that are going toward stopping climate change.

By David Gelles