Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president will begin selling his proposal on Wednesday, saying it would fix 20,000 miles of roads and 10,000 bridges, while also addressing climate change and racial inequities and raising corporate taxes. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/business/economy/biden-infrastructure-plan.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Terry Tempest Williams, an author and environmental activist, on bird song, Keith Jarrett and slowing down. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/arts/music/terry-tempest-williams-music.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment There were bright spots, but the total lost acreage increased by 12 percent over all from the year before, according to new research. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/climate/deforestation-amazon-brazil.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Divers practicing blackwater photography are helping marine scientists gain new insights into fish larvae. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/science/blackwater-photography-fish-larvae.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The tortoises were found on Sunday wrapped in plastic inside a red suitcase that was bound for mainland Ecuador. A police officer has been taken into custody, the authorities said. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/climate/galapagos-tortoises-smuggling.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The White House said the program could create tens of thousands of new jobs while moving the country toward clean energy Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/climate/biden-offshore-wind.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy intends to ask all agency leaders to identify political tampering in science-based policies and decisions over the past four years. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/climate/biden-trump-science.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As vice president, Joe Biden oversaw a “green jobs” stimulus package that produced notable failures. This time, with more money and more demand for clean technology, will be different, Democrats say. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/climate/biden-climate-stimulus.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Frigid temperatures last month froze pipelines and forced companies to flare vast amounts of planet-warming gases that they suddenly had nowhere to send. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/climate/texas-blackout-flaring-natural-gas.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Gavin Schmidt, a leading climate scientist, will fill a newly created job of climate adviser to NASA, in a prominent example of Biden’s pledge to focus on climate policy. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/climate/gavin-schmidt-climate-change-nasa.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In rejecting a request from some provinces to strike down national carbon pricing, the court declared that the measure meets an important national need. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/world/canada/canada-supreme-court-carbon-pricing.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The transportation secretary defended the Biden administration’s broad plans in a hearing as Democrats laid the groundwork for legislation and Republicans expressed skepticism. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/us/politics/buttigieg-infrastructure.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment There were only about 72,000 bald eagles in the lower 48 states in 2009. Researchers say the population is now above 300,000. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/climate/how-many-bald-eagles-united-states.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Public transit offers a simple way for cities to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but the pandemic has pushed ridership, and revenue, off a cliff in many big systems. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/climate/buses-trains-ridership-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by blocking sunlight, citing the lack of progress fighting global warming. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/climate/geoengineering-sunlight.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A queasiness has set in among some people who have made ads promoting fossil fuels. One executive likened the shift to the ad industry’s move away from tobacco. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/business/media/climate-ad-agencies-fossil-fuels.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A key conservation group counted the continent’s elephants as two species for the first time, highlighting the dire threat to forest elephants. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/science/elephants-africa-endangered.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Matt Leacock, the inventor of the hit board game Pandemic, has spent the past year making a game about an even weightier subject. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/arts/matt-leacock-climate-crisis-pandemic.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Democrats hope to wipe out some of the executive-branch policies enacted in the last days of the Trump administration. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/us/politics/senate-democrats-climate-change-rule.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Pescatarians take note: Farmed fish are eating more veggies and less wild fish, according to new research. That’s good news for nature. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/climate/salmon-vegetarian-fish.html