Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Basic firefighting techniques have changed little in decades — but fires themselves are now changing as the world warms, complicating an already perilous profession. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/climate/firefighting-techniques.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Leather goods made of fungi are versatile and sustainable, a new study finds. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/science/fungus-leather.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Extreme temperatures and more severe droughts, the result of human-caused climate change, have created a world that’s ready to burn. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/climate/wildfires-globally.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists say that climate change, which has also contributed to the wildfires on the West Coast, helped intensify a storm that is unleashing a deluge in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/hurricane-sally.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists know climate change has made storms wetter. There’s evidence that it makes some slower, too. It all adds up to trouble when they hit land. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/climate/hurricane-sally-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An issue that has always been on the sidelines in presidential campaigns may be coming to the forefront as Joseph Biden seeks to cast climate change, not violence, as the real and immediate threat to the suburbs. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/politics/fires-trump-biden-suburbs.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson dismiss scientists’ determination that climate change is a key culprit in West Coast wildfires. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/business/media/wildfires-conservative-media.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Barely halfway through what one meteorologist called a “hyperactive” season, there is only one entry left on the 21-name list used for storms. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/climate/hurricane-names-2020.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Countries have made insufficient progress on international goals designed to halt a catastrophic slide, a new report found. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/climate/biodiversity-united-nations-report.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president visited California after weeks of silence on its wildfires and blamed the crisis only on poor forest management, not climate change. “I don’t think science knows” what is happening, he said. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/trump-biden-climate-change-fires.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In California, the president blamed forest management for the fires: This is your morning tip sheet. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/politics/trump-biden-climate.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Daniel Yergin’s “The New Map” is a comprehensive look at the world of energy, its past, present and future. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/books/review/the-future-of-energy.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In his new book, the journalist and co-founder of Vox argues that dramatic population growth could revitalize the nation. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/books/review/one-billion-americans-matthew-yglesias.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Trump and Joe Biden can both point to advantages in our new poll of Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire and Wisconsin. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/nyt-poll-takeaways.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Open water and rain, rather than ice and snow, are becoming typical of the region, a new study has found. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/climate/arctic-changing-climate.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Eight months after blazes devastated a wide swath of Australia, the most battered communities are trying to burn their way to safety as another fire season approaches. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/world/australia/bush-fires-preventive-burns.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A president who has mocked climate change and pushed policies that accelerate it is set to be briefed on the scorched earth and ash-filled skies that experts say are the predictable result. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/politics/california-fires-trump-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Conservation efforts have saved up to 48 mammal and bird species since 1993, but scientists say much more is needed to stem biodiversity loss. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/science/extinction-species-conservation.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment At a meeting last year, industry leaders contradicted public claims that emissions of climate-warming methane are under control Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/methane-natural-gas-flaring.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The northwest part of the state, usually much wetter, has dried out this year, enabling flames driven by powerful winds to “just explode down these canyons.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/oregon-wildfires.html