Extreme Weather Is Taxing Utilities More Often. Can A.I. Help?
From hurricanes to wildfires, a new generation of technologies could help utilities better plan for the risk of extreme weather to their electric grid.
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From hurricanes to wildfires, a new generation of technologies could help utilities better plan for the risk of extreme weather to their electric grid.
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Around the country, people with a deep distrust of government want to preemptively ban the use of aerosols to reduce heat from the sun.
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The Times hosted leaders and policymakers to talk about growing threats of climate change, and spoke with the C.E.O. of Occidental Petroleum.
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By tweaking the chemistry of rivers and oceans, humans could remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air. But huge challenges loom.
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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.
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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.
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How Does Your State Make Electricity?
There’s been a big shift in how America produces power. Each state has its own story.
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The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish
Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. But research tells a surprising story: Many islands are stable. Some have even grown.
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Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here.
What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small.
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Send Us Your Questions About Climate Change
What should The Times ask change experts, world leaders and policymakers at its Climate Forward conference on Sept. 25?
What’s the True Price of a School Lunch?
An emerging body of research aims to put dollar figures on the environmental costs of foods we eat every day.
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The Fires That Could Reshape the Amazon
Vast, diverse parts of Brazil are burning at the same time, forcing officials to rethink how to protect crucial ecosystems like the Amazon.
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Is Inequality the Key to the Climate Change Debate?
In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality.
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5 Climate Questions for the Candidates Ahead of the Presidential Debate
Here’s what the Times climate team would ask Harris and Trump about climate change, energy policy and the environment.
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Disasters in the small Himalayan nation have become more frequent as the effects of climate change intensify.
By Bhadra Sharma
With communication lines down in the mountains amid Helene, early reports were unclear about how many landslides had occurred and the extent of damage from the storm.
By Austyn Gaffney
A judge said he hoped to deter protests when he handed down lengthy terms for the two activists, who dumped soup on the painting in 2022. Later that day, activists did it again.
By Alex Marshall
A researcher followed up on a study warning that the massive trees were in danger, and found many venerable specimens thriving.
By Rachel Nuwer
Artificial intelligence’s hunger for energy has set off a boom in utility stocks and may lead to the reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, our columnist says.
By Jeff Sommer
Catastrophic storms have crippled the state’s home insurance market in the past, and some researchers say it is dangerously vulnerable.
By Christopher Flavelle
Catastrophic flooding is forecast in mountain areas and significant landslides are possible through Friday in parts of the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia.
By Mark Barrett and Austyn Gaffney
Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops.
By Amanda Holpuch
At a New York Times Climate Forward event, Kevin D. Roberts said climate change amounted to a “hot year.”
By Coral Davenport
Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet.
By David Gelles and Ian C. Bates
In his first interview with Western media since becoming president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye said the United Nations has to change to reflect changing world demographics.
By Ruth Maclean
Andy Jarvis, Bruce Friedrich, Will Harris and Katie Cantrell are part of a group focused on food who are leading conversations at the Times’s Climate Forward Changemaker Lunch.
By Jim Colgan
For over two decades the city’s mayor has reclaimed public space for people and limited vehicles in the city center, which reduced traffic and improved air quality.
By Tanya Mohn and Matilde Viegas
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Jamal Lewis and Aloja Airewele are part of a group focused on electrification. They are leading conversations at the Times’s Climate Forward Changemaker Lunch.
By Jim Colgan
A fifth-generation network at the Bankside Yards project in London offers new possibilities for the pace of decarbonization in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
By Peter Wilson
With electricity scarce, Africa’s most populated country struggles to provide lifesaving cooling without worsening the very crisis causing the heat.
By Nell Gallogly
Solutions to the problem of climate change have never been more clear. But the scale of the problem keeps getting bigger.
By David Gelles
Researchers are looking at the impact that individuals’ actions can have on reducing carbon emissions — and the best ways to get people to adopt them.
By Alina Tugend
Storm Boris dumped record amounts of rain over Central and Eastern Europe this month. A new study found climate change made the deluge more likely.
By Austyn Gaffney
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