Climate

The Climate Fix is our twice-a-month guide to the most important solutions to climate change across the world. Have comments about what we should cover? Email us at climateforward@nytimes.com.At a time when President Trump’s tariff policies have caused parts...

On a frigid day in early January, as she worked in her office in the Boston suburb of Billerica, Mass., Siyu Huang received a two-word text message.“Spinning wheels,” it said. Attached was a short video clip showing a car...

In the sprawling flatlands of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula, near the small town of Give, a family-owned company called Welcon has been gearing up to build giant, cylindrical wind turbine towers for a multibillion-dollar project.The project, a wind farm called...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country’s most expensive disasters, those which cause at least $1 billion in damage.The move would leave insurance companies, researchers and government policymakers...

For the past year, I’ve been reporting on how “forever chemicals,” a group of toxic contaminants known as PFAS, can end up in our sewage and farmland.It’s not well known, but when wastewater treatment plants treat our sewage or...

The Trump administration has moved to end federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a showy grouse with the misfortune of inhabiting southern and central grasslands long sought-after for agriculture and energy development.In a court filing on Wednesday, officials...

A coalition of states led by Washington, Colorado and California sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, charging that it was unlawfully withholding billions of dollars allocated by Congress for electric-vehicle charging stations across the United States.The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure...

A sluggish line of storms continues to deliver repeated rounds of heavy rainfall across the already saturated ground of the Southeast this week, renewing flash flood risks. In New Orleans, where late last month storms dropped a month’s worth...

The Trump administration has earmarked dozens of National Park Service grants for elimination, including several that aim to protect public lands from the effects of climate change, according to an internal agency document detailing the plans.A spreadsheet of grants...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate Energy Star, the popular energy efficiency certification for dishwashers, refrigerators, dryers and other home appliances, according to agency documents and a recording of an internal meeting.E.P.A. managers announced during an internal staff...