Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Cutting down emissions of planet-warming methane from oil and gas production was supposed to be relatively simple. It hasn’t worked that way. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/climate/methane-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The 5-to-4 decision is the latest setback for the agency and could have sweeping implications for curtailing water pollution offshore. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/politics/supreme-court-epa-water.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A massive superberg, four times as big as New York City, has halted east of the southern tip of South America. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/climate/iceberg-antarctica-a23a.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The backlash against the electric vehicle company has intensified as the billionaire ally of President Trump exerts his power over the federal government. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/business/tesla-boycott-elon-musk.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A photojournalist was on the ground in Southern California in January to capture the fires’ devastation. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/insider/la-fires-reporting.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Biden administration had sued to force the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in Louisiana to reduce emissions of chloroprene, a likely carcinogen. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/climate/trump-administration-lawsuit-denka-carcinogen.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Saudi-led cartel said its members would start gradually pumping more oil in April. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/business/energy-environment/oil-prices-opec-production.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The environmental group, battling a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, told the North Dakota Supreme Court it can’t get a fair trial. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/climate/greenpeace-energy-transfer-dakota-access-pipeline-lawsuit.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In the city of Del Mar, near San Diego, most agree the train tracks must move off eroding bluffs. But debate over its new route has stalled the project while climate change raises the risks. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/del-mar-train-tracks-san-diego.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/climate/plankton-ocean-warming.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/climate/trump-logging-national-forests.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/climate/trump-us-climate-policy-changes.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/science/volcano-vesuvius-pompeii.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/science/climate-mycorrhizal-fungus-networks.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment “Lives are being put in danger,” one meteorologist warned, as some experts feared the cuts will harm public safety. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/weather/national-weather-serivce-cuts-trump-impact.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/world/asia/trump-zero-sum-world.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The resignations came a day after a wave of firings at the agency, a world center of climate research. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/climate/noaa-trump-staff-cuts.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The New York Times for Kids asked young people whose lives changed in an instant about what they kept, and what they lost. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/magazine/8-kids-on-what-they-saved-from-the-la-fires.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A new French ban on “forever chemicals” allows their use in nonstick pans after industry opposition, including a rally by employees of Tefal, a cookware maker. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/climate/france-pfas-ban-tefal-cookware.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A spending freeze could disrupt systems that warn communities when eruptions appear imminent. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/climate/alaska-volcano-monitoring-doge.html