NYTimes - Environment

The burning of fossil fuels is raising temperatures worldwide, but local factors, on land and at sea, determine which regions warm most rapidly.

Few schools in Britain or France have air-conditioning to keep children cool in soaring temperatures, leaving parents, teachers and officials divided about what to do.

France’s average temperature on Tuesday was its hottest ever, the country’s weather agency said. Several countries are under top-level heat warnings.

The database of federal global warming research recreates a website that was closed amid the administration’s broad retreat from climate science.

Records are being broken for the second time in a month, leading scientists to probe the upper limits of what the warming climate can dish out.

The federal government wants to help utilities buy large components for up to 10 large nuclear reactors. It’s unclear which, if any, companies might participate.

Searing temperatures in Western Europe are drawing comparisons to 2003, when a deadly heat wave sparked a reckoning.

It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier.

A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill on federal property.

Big parts of Europe are under high-level warnings for extreme heat, with forecasters predicting “severe” weather impact.

U.S. oil production is expected to grow only modestly next year as companies hesitate to spend more in an uncertain market.

Cameron Hamilton, who briefly led the agency on an acting basis last year but was fired for contradicting the president, also said he would get money out to states faster.

A pilot program is building solar panels over irrigation canals to generate electricity. As a bonus, the shade prevents water from evaporating.

As a new, potentially record-breaking El Niño begins, researchers are vigorously debating whether climate change is driving the phenomenon’s intensity.

More oil is getting out of the Persian Gulf, but the region’s producers are looking for signs that it is safe as they ramp up plans for alternative routes.

A lawsuit filed in California claims the automaker’s philanthropic arm stole technology intended to help poor farmers, but it is not clear to what end.

Unusually high temperatures are expected across parts of Western Europe into early next week, weather agencies said.

Tesla sales are rebounding in Europe even though many people have negative feelings about Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive. We want to know why.

The employees encouraged limits on the complexes in a series of hearings in the tech giant’s hometown, Seattle.

The reversal comes after the Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to block the removal of deep-sea monitoring instruments.