Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/science/snail-darter-fish-tellico-dam.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The move, expected as early as Monday, relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/climate/federal-waters-oil-drilling-ban.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment With a lucrative tax credit, the Biden administration is hoping to establish a new industry that might help fight climate change. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/climate/hydrogen-subsidies-biden-treasury.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The panels, removed under Ronald Reagan, found new homes from Maine to China. And their legacy still reverberates. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/climate/jimmy-carter-solar-panels.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Forty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carter’s environmental legacy. President Biden’s climate initiatives could face a similar fate. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/climate/jimmy-carter-joe-biden-environmental-policy.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping and trade. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/climate/trump-greenland-panama-canal-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Periods of low sun and wind, a weather pattern known as a Dunkelflaute, can increase electricity prices and stoke political tensions. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/business/energy-environment/europe-energy-solar-wind.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Plus, what you might be eating in 2025. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/podcasts/china-hacks-the-treasury-dept-and-a-hydropower-crisis.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An extraordinary drought has drained Ecuador’s rivers and reservoirs, leading to power outages of up to 14 hours. Some fear this is the beginning of a larger global crisis. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/world/americas/ecuador-hydropower-drought.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment You’ve got choices, from menstrual cups to washable pads. Here’s how they stack up. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/climate/period-products-menstruation-environment.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Wholesale coffee prices are trading near a 50-year high because of shortages related to extreme weather and increased global demand. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/business/coffee-prices-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment They were the bright lights during a rocky year, making the city a cooler, and fairer, place to be. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/nyregion/best-new-yorkers-2024.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As a researcher at several universities and an adviser at NASA, he used data analysis to show how the planet’s different systems are interrelated. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/climate/berrien-moore-dead.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/us/politics/trump-panama-canal.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment “Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/science/biomass-garbage-construction.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/climate/epa-pfas-fertilizer-3m-forever-chemicals.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As climate change intensifies, flooding is emerging as a threat for homes not previously seen as high-risk. Some residents are responding creatively by lifting up their homes. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/realestate/home-lifts-flooding-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The measure will seek to raise funds to pay for some of the damage caused by extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent because of the combustion of fossil fuels. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/nyregion/hochul-climate-change-superfund-law.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An increasingly ferocious and volatile surf is raising questions about the future of the state’s piers, which have defined the coastline for generations. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/us/california-beach-surf-pier-warning.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As holiday joy transitions to wintry malaise, New Yorkers throw tons of trees to the curb. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/realestate/which-borough-produces-the-most-christmas-tree-waste.html