How Hot Was Your Town Last Year? Look Up Where You Live.
2025 was the third hottest year on record, but thousands of cities saw record heat and one broke a record for cold.
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CreditThe New York Times 2025: A Year of Fire and Floods
Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.
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CreditPhilip Cheung for The New York Times Walking On Antarctic Sea Ice: ‘A Universe of White’
Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local.
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CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
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We Asked for Environmental Fixes in Your State. You Sent In Thousands.
Readers submitted more than 3,200 ideas for our 50 States, 50 Fixes series. Before the year ends, we wanted to share just a few more of them.
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CreditSkateport; Susan Szeszol; The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District; Anne Little A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much.
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
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CreditThe New York Times There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away.
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
By David GellesSomini SenguptaKeith BradsherBrad Plumer and
CreditGilles Sabrié and J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing.
Did you know the “recycling” symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable? Play our trashy garbage-sorting game, then read about why this is so tricky.
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CreditRinee Shah A Climate Change Guide for Kids
The future could be bad, or it could be better. You can help decide.
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More in The Climate Forward Newsletter ›The Cities That Broke Heat Records Last Year
Thousands of cities around the world saw their hottest year on record in 2025 as the planet has inched closer to a key temperature threshold.
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CreditGo Nakamura/Reuters The View From Above Antarctica’s Fastest Melting Glacier
Times journalists were able to get tantalizingly close to the Thwaites glacier, which scientists are hoping to spend weeks studying up close.
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CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times Climate Change Has Turned Greenland Into a Target for Trump
A warming planet has opened up new shipping routes and turned Greenland into a geostrategic asset for the Trump administration.
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CreditEvgeniy Maloletka/Associated Press The Unanswered Questions About Venezuela’s Environmental Future
The Trump administration has made no secret that it covets Venezuela’s oil reserves. What happens next could have serious implications for the planet.
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Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local.
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CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times Tantalizingly Close to an Antarctic Glacier, but Weather Blocks the Way
The clock is ticking. But low clouds have prevented helicopters from moving scientists and gear onto the continent’s fastest-melting glacier.
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CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times Portraits of the Thwaites Glacier
From an icebreaker sailing near the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, our photographer has captured the many faces of the ice.
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CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times Face to Face With the Thwaites Glacier
Less than a day after arriving at the ice, we are already up close and personal with the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica.
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CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times The Icebreaker Reaches the Thwaites Glacier, and the Science Begins
After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.
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State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy
Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.
By Ivan Penn and Karen Weise
TimesVideoThe Sounds of Antarctica? Flying in the Cold? Your Questions, Answered
Is it hard to fly a helicopter in the Antarctic cold? What do penguins sound like? How about the instruments designed to test the waters below the Thwaites Glacier? Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong finds some answers to viewer questions.
By Raymond Zhong, Chang W. Lee, David Seekamp, Kassie Bracken, Jon Hazell and Stephanie Swart
In a Setback for Trump, Judge Says N.Y. Wind Farm Can Resume Construction
A federal judge said the Empire Wind project off Long Island would suffer “irreparable harm” if the Trump administration continued to hold up work.
By Lisa Friedman
How One Company Is Pushing a Private Takeover of Flood Insurance
For half a century, a federal program has covered most at-risk properties. Now, a private company is pitching a plan to shrink the government’s role.
By Scott Dance
TimesVideoA Look at Antarctica From Above
After nearly two weeks at sea without being able to launch his drone, New York Times photographer Chang W. Lee finally captures Antarctica from the air.
By Chang W. Lee, Raymond Zhong, Jon Miller, Christina Thornell and Leila Medina
A Conversation WithToby Kiers, World Champion of Fungus
This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.
By Alan Burdick
Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes
The British government provided guaranteed electricity prices to a group of wind farm developers in what it says is an effort to bring down power costs for consumers.
By Stanley Reed
Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World
The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.
By Somini Sengupta
U.S. Refiners to Profit as Trump Asserts Control Over Venezuelan Oil
The companies that turn oil into gasoline and diesel are likely to benefit more, right away, than the businesses that pump oil out of the ground.
By Rebecca F. Elliott
Beijing Won Its War for Blue Skies, but Villagers Are Paying the Price
China banned the burning of coal for heat around Beijing, but natural gas subsidies have run out, leaving many villagers vulnerable in dangerously cold weather.
By Vivian Wang
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