Major emitter the US has officially left the Paris Agreement and global emissions keep rising a decade on from the deal. Yet renewables' growth shows climate action can work. Here's what's been done and what's missing.
A sprawling winter storm that left hundreds of thousands without power, grounded thousands of flights and disrupted travel across the eastern half of the U.S. could be the first real test of the second Trump administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency.
A new wave of takedown orders from Trump officials targets signs about climate and Native Americans at several national parks, including Grand Canyon, Big Bend and Glacier.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the Trump administration for approving an oil company's plans to restart two oil pipelines along the state's coast.
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing an accounting scheme that moves pollution “liabilities” to buyers’ books.
Facing staunch local opposition and federal roadblocks, new wind project development is teetering on the brink, despite growing power demand. Even Iowa, the nation’s most wind-powered state, is “closed for business,” experts say.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is pausing a loan program aimed at promoting anaerobic digesters — many of which are issued for large-scale farms that turn animal waste into gas — to investigate high loan delinquency rates and underperformance.
More than 12,500 extreme climate events were registered in the Amazon biome between 2013 and 2023, according to a recent study, but many more events were never recorded.
Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing relationship with the most mysterious continent.
The world needs to more than double oil production, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said at Davos, while criticising the European Union and the state of California for wasting money on what he described as inefficient green energy.
Across the country, communities that lost grants have responded in a variety of ways — suing the government, searching for other funds, or simply moving on.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill wants to tap funds from clean energy programs to offset utility bill increases, while the state pursues more solar projects and virtual power plants.
