Enviro.News

Gala Porras-Kim has confronted the restitution of cultural artifacts and now — with melting Antarctic ice — climate change.

As forests succumb to ever-fiercer wildfires, the federal government and some adventurous private companies are trying to resuscitate an industry.

A new technology is attempting to brighten clouds and bounce some of the sun’s rays back into space.

The automaker said it would delay new battery-powered models and shift its focus to hybrid cars, sales of which are rising fast.

The E.P.A. said the fund will spur a clean energy transition in overlooked communities. Republicans called it a “greendoggle.”

Blocking solar rays. Sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ideas that sound like science fiction are now starting to become reality, raising concerns about safety.

Artificial intelligence is peering into restaurant garbage pails and crunching grocery-store data to try to figure out how to send less uneaten food into dumpsters.

The Italian energy giant Eni sees future profits from collecting carbon dioxide and pumping it into natural gas fields that have been exhausted.

A landscape architect in China has a surprising strategy to help manage surges of water from storms supercharged by climate change.

A new Vermont bill would create a “climate superfund.”

A trial in California is testing a machine designed to reflect sunlight back into space. “All my colleagues hope that we never use these things,” one researcher said.

As governments impose limits on plastic food packaging, climate-friendlier alternatives are in the works. Here are some that might be coming to a grocery store near you.

How to stay safe when the snow is coming down.

A rush of precipitation lifted the state to its second straight year with above-average snowfall, though Gov. Gavin Newsom warned residents not to grow used to it.

Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year, even as other automakers sold more battery-powered vehicles.

To lure swiftlets, whose saliva-built nests fetch high prices in China, people in Borneo compete to build them the most luxurious accommodations: safe, clean, dark and with pools for bathing.

The G.O.P. speaker’s proposed conditions for sending a fresh infusion of military assistance to Kyiv are the strongest sign to date that he plans to defy critics in his own party and push through the aid package.

Ambitious projects are trying to engineer the atmosphere.

Decades of buried trash is releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at higher rates than previously estimated, the researchers said.

Farm protests are changing not only Europe’s food system but also its politics, as the far right senses an opportunity.