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Conspiracy Theorists and Vaccine Skeptics Target Geoengineering

September 26, 2024 - 05:00
Around the country, people with a deep distrust of government want to preemptively ban the use of aerosols to reduce heat from the sun.
Categories: Climate

‘I Knew I Should Leave. I Couldn’t Leave.’

September 25, 2024 - 17:17
Terry Tempest Williams shares her experience surviving the terror and beauty of a flash flood.
Categories: Climate

Silicon Valley Renegades Pollute the Sky to Save the Planet

September 25, 2024 - 16:49
Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet.
Categories: Climate

A Remote Alaskan Island Is on High Alert for a Rat

September 25, 2024 - 16:16
Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops.
Categories: Climate

Project 2025 Architect Dismisses Climate Change at Times Climate Forward Event

September 25, 2024 - 12:47
At a New York Times Climate Forward event, Kevin D. Roberts said climate change amounted to a “hot year.”
Categories: Climate

Senegal’s Young President Wants a New World Order

September 25, 2024 - 05:06
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.
Categories: Climate

This Grain Should Be the Next Quinoa

September 25, 2024 - 05:02
As climate change threatens the availability of food, we must diversify what’s on our plates.
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Climate Forward: Taking on Food Emissions at Their Origin and Consumption

September 25, 2024 - 01:31
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.
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Two Leaders Try to Expand Access to Electrification

September 25, 2024 - 01:30
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.
Categories: Climate

Pontevedra, a Spanish City That Picked Pedestrians Over Cars

September 25, 2024 - 01:30
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.
Categories: Climate

Nigeria Faces a Cooling Crisis as Global Temperatures Rise

September 25, 2024 - 01:30
With electricity scarce, Africa’s most populated country struggles to provide lifesaving cooling without worsening the very crisis causing the heat.
Categories: Climate

Climate Forward: Confronting Our New Reality

September 25, 2024 - 01:30
Solutions to the problem of climate change have never been more clear. But the scale of the problem keeps getting bigger.
Categories: Climate

Climate Change: Researchers Study Ways Individuals’ Actions Can Reduce Emissions

September 25, 2024 - 01:30
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.
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Study Finds Climate Change Doubled Likelihood of Recent European Floods

September 24, 2024 - 23:02
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.
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Biden Boasts of Climate Wins and Warns of Reversals Under Trump

September 24, 2024 - 18:25
At an event in New York, the president said federal investments in climate action would be at risk if former President Donald J. Trump retook the White House.
Categories: Climate

Send Us Your Questions About Climate Change

September 24, 2024 - 14:01
What should The Times ask change experts, world leaders and policymakers at its Climate Forward conference on Sept. 25?
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Guterres Urges World Leaders to Act on ‘Whirlwind’ of Crises

September 24, 2024 - 11:53
António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, said the world was “edging towards the unimaginable” amid deepening challenges of war and climate change.
Categories: Climate

California Sues Exxon Over Plastics Pollution and Recycling ‘Myth’

September 23, 2024 - 16:16
The lawsuit, seeking ‘multiple billions of dollars,’ opens a new front in the legal battles with oil and gas companies over climate and environmental issues.
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The U.S. Lost the Battery Race to China. Can It Make a Comeback?

September 23, 2024 - 15:00
The cutting edge of American battery technology is rusty.
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The World Is a Mess. That Makes the Climate Crisis Harder to Solve.

September 23, 2024 - 13:55
A transformed China, conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, and intractable clashes over money have pushed the prospects of progress to a new low.
Categories: Climate