The New York Times Environment

Glass skyscrapers are transforming cities, but do they make sense in a world that’s getting hotter?

Racing in Chicago showed your newsletter host firsthand how warming is disrupting the sport.

Large batteries that store electricity have revolutionized power grids and car markets. Now some start-ups are betting that “heat batteries” could be just as transformative.

The Biden administration had sought to crack down on methane leaks, a big driver of climate change. Those rules are now being scaled back.

The case, La Rose v. His Majesty the King, is the first youth-led federal case in Canada to be heard.

The re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to lead to continued rainforest protections. His opponent wanted to make it easier to clear land.

They’re transforming cities with million-dollar views and a message of modernity. But climate change makes cooling them tricky and costly.

Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the Environmental Protection Agency, and then helped President Trump undo regulations meant to protect millions of Americans from toxic air pollution.

The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

Chemical plants and other industrial facilities had been required to curb their toxic emissions. A New York Times investigation shows how they got out of it.

A New York Times investigation shows how President Trump allowed companies to skirt rules designed to limit toxic pollution.

In Ohio, many voters say their frustration about the increase in electricity and fuel prices and the growth of data centers won’t influence whom they vote for.

The project will lessen the country’s dependence on imported energy, though environmental advocates say it undercuts a pledge to reduce carbon emissions.

The scientific report, identifies the United States as an outlier among the nations responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions.

Jackdaw, a natural gas field off the coast of Scotland, would be the first new gas extraction project in the North Sea since a government moratorium in 2024.

Threats hiding in plain sight could upend forests far and wide.

The National Park Service is reviving a practice that was banned by the Biden administration and condemned by conservationists.

A sugarcane crop withered by El Niño in India, the world’s second-largest producer, is hurting consumers and farmers — plus undermining the country’s energy security goals.

The ratings on real estate sites that try to convey the risk of burning in a wildfire may overcomplicate or misrepresent the risk.

In “Bogland,” Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.