List of Environment articles
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A wind turbine is seen in silhouette at dusk or dawn against a hazy sky. Other buildings and smokestacks are visible in silhouette in the background. Making Sense of the World Energy Outlook
The energy transition is not inevitable—but neither is business as usual.
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A rainbow stretches across a partly cloudy sky outside a large building in the venue for COP30. Small groups of people mill about on the plaza beneath the rainbow. Brazil Tries to Keep Climate Cooperation Alive
At COP30, the global energy transition is moving forward without the United States.
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Water runs low at the Latyan Dam, which feeds Tehran, on May 8. Tehran’s Residents Are Panicking as Taps Run Dry
Years of drought and neglect have left the city nearly unsustainable.
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China-solar-energy-dominance-infographic-3-2 How China Became a Solar Power
Beijing’s green energy ambitions are fueling a global revolution.
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Climate-change-fiction-recommendations-homepage2 5 Novelists on Their Favorite Climate Fiction
Sometimes, literature meets the moment better than diplomacy.
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TRISO-X Pebbles are displayed on a blue podium, in front of a screen showing an Amazon delivery truck. AI’s Rapacious Appetite for Electricity Can Accelerate Clean Energy
Why Big Tech’s energy problem might prove crucial to fighting climate change.
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A group of people in colorful clothing wait in line with empty pots in the desert. COP30’s Dangerous Omission
Brazil’s people-centered climate vision risks abandoning the most vulnerable.
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On a sunny day outside, a line of residents in a town in Jamaica hit by Hurricane Melissa works together to unload a delivery of food supplies. In Hurricane Melissa’s Wake, Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts Face Critical Moment
The storm’s devastation is a key test of the United States’ reduced humanitarian response abilities.
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A woman with a scarf on her head sits on the ground holding a black sheep. Behind her white sheep are scattered on a grassy, rocky mountainside. The Women Carrying Water—and the World
The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.
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This view shows the COP30 logotype at Docks Station in Belem, Brazil, on Oct. 24. Will Belém Kill Paris?
COP30 in Brazil tests the 2015 climate accord at a pivotal moment.
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A woman is seen in mid-thigh deep water on a flooded street. Other people are behind her with buses on either side. Even Doomsday Will Divide Us
Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” interrogates how the have-nots get by in a climate catastrophe.
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A farmer looks at a field of paddy crops that are submerged in water. Indian Farmers Struggle as Climate Change Warps Landscape
Once-thriving crops are poorly adapting to new temperatures.
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An aerial view shows sediment in offshore from coastal erosion amid a green landscape. Suriname’s Coming Oil Boom
Can the carbon-negative country enrich itself without harming the planet?
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U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on October 9, in Washington, DC. U.S. Intelligence Is Being Blinded by Trumpian Politics
Tulsi Gabbard has killed a key report for covering climate change.
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The Zangmu hydropower station in Lhoka, Tibet. China’s Tibetan Mega-Dam Is Veiled in Secrecy
Nobody knows what the impact of the world’s biggest hydropower project will be.