NYTimes - Environment

Roger Worthington is helping to lead a $50 billion lawsuit against oil producers. This week he’ll face powerful critics in Congress.

Electric vehicle chargers are proliferating in Southern states as fast food restaurants, stores and other businesses try to lure customers.

Residents fear that the Trump administration’s plans to build a border wall will threaten the region’s spectacular starry skies.

Salt Lake City reached its highest temperature ever recorded this weekend.

While the full toll will take months to calculate, death statistics already look substantial compared with historical averages.

Many say communication was chaotic and even nonexistent as flames tore through the area, taking 12 lives in one of the deadliest wildfires on record in Spain.

Matthew M. Wielicki has criticized the scientific consensus on global warming as alarmist. Now he’ll oversee a major federal report on the topic.

Changing deer populations, rising temperatures and other factors are driving ticks and their diseases into new areas.

It’s summer on the South Fork. Care for some nuggets and caviar?

Gov. Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency after up to a foot of rain fell in the southeastern part of the state. More storms are in the forecast.

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.

The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.

The official urged requiring a fish farm to monitor for the tiny plastic particles. The E.P.A. said he had taken steps to embarrass the agency.

An accident at the lab that produces America’s nuclear bomb cores could lead to more fatalities than previously estimated by the federal government, according to new research.

Jessica Cantlon had a grant with the U.S. Navy to explore whether people could improve spatial problem-solving skills through training. Then the program was cut.

A team of engineers, foresters and scientists is helping the continent prepare for wildfires from a giant science park in Italy. Their arsenal includes satellites, weather models and expert analysis.

In the past weeks, two sites in the United States have halted operations.

The birds are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, and France’s torrid June took a heavy toll.

The lawsuit claims that the companies, including 3M and DuPont, contaminated the environment and engaged in fraud by withholding information from the public about the harms of the chemicals, known as PFAS.

The Trump administration wants to roll back some Biden-era restrictions on smog-causing emissions from heavy-duty vehicles.