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Conspiracy Theorists and Vaccine Skeptics Target Geoengineering
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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‘I Knew I Should Leave. I Couldn’t Leave.’
Terry Tempest Williams shares her experience surviving the terror and beauty of a flash flood.
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Silicon Valley Renegades Pollute the Sky to Save the Planet
Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet.
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A Remote Alaskan Island Is on High Alert for a Rat
Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops.
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Project 2025 Architect Dismisses Climate Change at Times Climate Forward Event
At a New York Times Climate Forward event, Kevin D. Roberts said climate change amounted to a “hot year.”
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Senegal’s Young President Wants a New World Order
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.
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This Grain Should Be the Next Quinoa
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
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
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.
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Pontevedra, a Spanish City That Picked Pedestrians Over Cars
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.
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Nigeria Faces a Cooling Crisis as Global Temperatures Rise
With electricity scarce, Africa’s most populated country struggles to provide lifesaving cooling without worsening the very crisis causing the heat.
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Climate Forward: Confronting Our New Reality
Solutions to the problem of climate change have never been more clear. But the scale of the problem keeps getting bigger.
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Climate Change: Researchers Study Ways Individuals’ Actions Can Reduce Emissions
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
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
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.
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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?
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Guterres Urges World Leaders to Act on ‘Whirlwind’ of Crises
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.
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California Sues Exxon Over Plastics Pollution and Recycling ‘Myth’
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?
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.
A transformed China, conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, and intractable clashes over money have pushed the prospects of progress to a new low.
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