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  1. Can 70 Moms Save a Species?

    Here’s the story of Squilla, a rare North Atlantic right whale mother, and her firstborn. To help their species continue, they’d have to navigate an increasingly dangerous ocean.

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  2. Where Americans Have Been Moving Into Disaster-Prone Areas

    As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the risk of hazards like hurricanes, floods, wildfires and dangerous heat.

     By Mira Rojanasakul and

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  3. They’ve Got a Plan to Fight Global Warming. It Could Alter the Oceans.

    By tweaking the chemistry of rivers and oceans, humans could remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air. But huge challenges loom.

     By Brad PlumerRaymond Zhong and

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  4. The Hidden Environmental Costs of Food

    Damage to the natural world isn’t factored into the price of food. But some governments are experimenting with a new way of exposing the larger costs of what we eat.

     By Lydia DePillisManuela Andreoni and

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  5. How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points?

    Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse.

     By Raymond Zhong and

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  1. Trump’s Environmental Claims Ignore Decades of Climate Science

    The former president says he wants “clean air and clean water,” but he has rolled back environmental rules and dismissed the scientific consensus on climate change.

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    Donald J. Trump at a campaign event in Waunakee, Wis., on Oct. 1. “I’m an environmentalist,” he said.
    CreditMustafa Hussain for The New York Times
  2. Can Biological Engineering Change the World?

    Altering the DNA of living organisms could be an early step in re-engineering the natural world to help curb climate change.

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    Corn plants that have been bioengineered to provide their own more of their nutrients, right, compared with untreated plants, left.
    CreditAmir Hamja for The New York Times
  3. The A.I. Power Grab

    Big tech companies say A.I. can help solve climate change, even as it’s driving up their emissions and raising doubts about their climate goals.

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    Nvidia, the chip-making juggernaut, has become one of the most valuable companies in the world.
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  4. How Times Readers Made the Switch to Heat Pumps

    Hundreds of Times readers wrote to us and shared their experiences of installing heat pumps, including the good, the bad and the daunting.

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    Installing a heat pump at a home in Shorewood, Minn., last autumn.
    CreditTim Gruber for The New York Times
  5. The Flood-Protection Rule That Trump Rolled Back

    A Trump-era rollback of flood-protection rules has left critical infrastructure projects at higher risk, experts say.

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    A bridge destroyed by Hurricane Helene in Carter County, Tenn., seen earlier this month.
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  4. Theater Reviews

    Two Climate Change Plays Keep the Flames of Hope Alive

    “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

     
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  11. Stepping Into a Hidden World in the Everglades

    “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

     
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  18. A Skeleton Bank of Understudied Species

    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

     
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  30. TimesVideo

    Inside the Effort to Change How Seeds Grow

    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

     
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  50. Our Boundless Love for Big Sur May Be Killing It

    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

     
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  65. The Panda Factories

    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

     
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  75. Times Insider

    Covering All the Corners of a Warming World

    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

     
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    Why Milton and Helene ‘Exploded’ in Strength

    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

     
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  86. Our Planet’s Twin Crises

    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

     
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  104. At Least 16 Die as Floods Sweep Through Bosnia

    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.

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  109. The Climate Fix: Solutions for a Warming World

    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

     
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