NYT Global Warming Climate Change

Matthew M. Wielicki has criticized the scientific consensus on global warming as alarmist. Now he’ll oversee a major federal report on the topic.

Changing deer populations, rising temperatures and other factors are driving ticks and their diseases into new areas.

A team of engineers, foresters and scientists is helping the continent prepare for wildfires from a giant science park in Italy. Their arsenal includes satellites, weather models and expert analysis.

In the past weeks, two sites in the United States have halted operations.

Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.

The Trump administration wants to roll back some Biden-era restrictions on smog-causing emissions from heavy-duty vehicles.

Recent technological advances have brought the president’s goals a bit closer to reality.

An unusually early heat wave smashed records across France, Britain and Spain. Temperatures in some areas are starting to soar again.

Our July 4 bash was troubled, and America may go the way of the Ghaznavid Empire. But here are reasons to be more positive.

Higher sea temperatures have followed scorching weather across Europe, prompting Britain’s weather service to declare a “severe” marine heat wave.

Hotter temperatures and harsher droughts could cause Indigenous societies to lose many of the species they have used for medicine, rituals and more, scientists found.

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet destabilizes glacial ice.

The native plant movement says that we can combat environmental disaster from our own backyards. Is it really so simple?

Scientists have never quite understood how hail works. Meet the storm chasers trying to change that.

In New York City, emergency rooms last week logged the highest number of patients treated for heat-related illnesses in years.

Bill Frist, a surgeon who also served as Senate majority leader, has emerged as an outspoken advocate for environmental health. “A healthier planet means healthier people,” he said.

The birds are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, and France’s torrid June took a heavy toll.