Are Flight Offsets Worth It?
A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly.
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A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly.
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Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet.
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Other states have also considered restrictions, citing concerns about farmers’ livelihoods and food safety, though the product isn’t expected to be widely available for years.
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Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.
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U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing
An effort to protect 30 percent of land and waters would count some commercial fishing zones as conserved areas.
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A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals
A boom in data centers and factories is straining electric grids and propping up fossil fuels.
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A Climate Change Guide for Kids
The future could be bad, or it could be better. You can help decide.
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Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing.
Did you know the “recycling” symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable? Play our trashy garbage-sorting game, then read about why this is so tricky.
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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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New guidelines attempt to make the aviation cleaner by relying on corn-based ethanol, but experts divided on the fuel’s environmental benefits.
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How a group of local activists saved the ‘Yosemite of South America’ in the unlikeliest of deals.
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The fight over the future of plastics
As countries negotiate a landmark agreement to reduce plastic pollution, the industry is fighting a battle over regulations and over its image.
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Your most pressing climate questions
Introducing Ask NYT Climate, where we’ll explore how climate intersects with your everyday life.
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It’s still unclear how the world will pay for developing nations to fight climate change.
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An enormous amount of work is underway to remove carbon from the atmosphere, but who will pay for it?
By Lydia DePillis
Tech giants are building power-hungry data centers to run their artificial intelligence tools. The costs of that demand surge are becoming clearer.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap.
By Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn
Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.
By Franz Lidz
Shell and others say they plan to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico in part because doing so releases fewer greenhouse gases than drilling on land.
By Ivan Penn
Mayor Eric Adams is resurrecting a budget gimmick and charging rent to the city’s Water Board, which will pass on the costs to ratepayers.
By Dana Rubinstein
The Federal Trade Commission will bar Pioneer’s chief executive, Scott Sheffield, from joining Exxon’s board, saying he colluded with OPEC to reduce oil production.
By Clifford Krauss
As part of his plan to conserve the nation’s land and waters, Mr. Biden is enlarging the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.
By Coral Davenport
Tactics to convince people to buy less aren’t working. A quirky new documentary by Patagonia takes a different approach.
By Elizabeth Paton
Cattle ranches have ruled the Amazon for decades. Now, new companies are selling something else: the ability of trees to lock away planet-warming carbon.
By Manuela Andreoni and Victor Moriyama
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