Published by The New York Times Science & Environment For the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, The New York Times went big. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/climate/NYT-first-earth-day.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment With its otherworldly conditions, Australia has become a testing ground for fire-prediction technology. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/science/australia-wildfires-technology-drones.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment How climate change is altering nature’s sonic landscape. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/science/climate-change-sound-animals.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Fifty years on, Denis Hayes is still trying to keep the spirit that made Earth Day a world-changing event alive — and to refocus its energy on climate change. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/climate/denis-hayes-earth-day-organizer.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Members of the bipartisan commission created to investigate the spill say Congress and the Trump administration have failed to take safety seriously. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/climate/deepwater-horizon-anniversary.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment O presidente Jair Bolsonaro atua de forma agressiva para abrir a floresta amazônica ao desenvolvimento comercial e representa uma ameaça existencial para as tribos da região. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/pt/2020/04/19/world/americas/bolsonaro-brasil-amazonia-indigenas-funai.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Jair Bolsonaro is moving aggressively to open up the Amazon rainforest to commercial development, posing an existential threat to the tribes living there. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-amazon-indigenous.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Songbirds are being entered into high-stakes singing competitions across the country, and conservationists say protected species are in danger. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/world/asia/indonesia-songbirds-competition.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A relatively small number of plants process much of the beef and pork in the United States, and some of them have closed because workers are getting sick. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/business/coronavirus-meat-slaughterhouses.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The coronavirus is closing meatpacking plants, adding to financial strains from the China trade war and the rise of “fake” meat alternatives. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/climate/meat-industry-climate-impact.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist has been attacked with falsehoods that he created the coronavirus and wants to profit from it. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/technology/bill-gates-virus-conspiracy-theories.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Melting ice has receded from a mountain pass, unearthing pelts, shoes and stone structures from thousands of years ago. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/norway-viking-artifacts.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The drought that has gripped the American Southwest since 2000 is as bad as or worse than droughts in the region over the past 1,200 years, a new study finds. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/climate/drought-southwest-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A delicate ecosystem was disrupted in the Comoros, off East Africa, when forests were cleared to make way for farmland. The consequences offer lessons for other parts of the developing world. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/africa/comoros-climate-change-rivers.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The E.P.A. will change the way the benefits of mercury controls are calculated, a move that would effectively loosen the rules on other toxic pollutants. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/climate/epa-mercury-coal.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The notion of forgoing children as a means of fighting global warming is entering the mainstream. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/parenting/climate-change-having-kids.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Also this week, how to stay environmentally engaged Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/climate/biden-comes-out-on-top-now-the-really-hard-part.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists found a “cliff edge” instead of the slippery slope they expected. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/climate/wildlife-population-collapse-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The videos of deer and elephants, whether or not they’re real, speak to a budding hope: that the pandemic might change society, and us, for the better. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/magazine/quarantine-animal-videos-coronavirus.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Despite an emerging link between air pollution and Covid-19 death rates, the Trump administration will decline to tighten standards on soot emissions. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/climate/coronavirus-soot-clean-air-regulations.html