Environment | Opinion

The effects of ocean warming are vast, but often invisible.

Laws aren’t keeping pace with the risks climate change poses to workers laboring under sweltering conditions.

There were no trees. There was no road. I was the trees, and I was the road. That darkness was like no darkness I’ve ever known.

The city was the best-case scenario for congestion pricing. What does it mean that the plan was shelved?

Success isn’t an Instagrammable skyline.

A congestion pricing plan years in the making was suddenly postponed, threatening mass transit and ensuring continued traffic nightmares.

A “polluters must pay” law would compensate the state for damages and the costs of preparing for future impacts from warming weather.

The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.

Fossil fuel interests are spreading misinformation that renewable energy is harmful, unreliable and worse for consumers.

Currently, the fish are blocked from their most important spawning tributary.

The data shows that Black Americans are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change, from heat waves to extreme flooding.

A yawning hole in the Siberian landscape should be a warning about the dangers of extraction.

On this impossible, glorious planet, any creature who is tuned for beauty is sure to behold it.

Electric vehicles shouldn’t be a luxury item, but Biden’s tariffs mean they may remain so.

We need utilities to succeed now more than ever before. But the definition of success needs to evolve.

The seasonal allergy hill is now an all-year mountain.

Instead of continuing the environmental legacy they were once known for, Republicans have ceded the fight against climate change to Democrats.

We have become so separate from the natural world that we don’t feel safe in the presence of well maintained trees.

“Saving the planet” is the wrong goal.

To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.

The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.

The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.

We need to grapple with the many hidden and little-understood but highly damaging effects of climate change.

The global community must draw bright lines for combatants in future conflicts by creating specific protections for power grids.

Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?

Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.

To find the birds, you have to know them.

The town of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the midst of catastrophe.

I wish I could take a walk and not see the ugly carelessness.

Geologists just rejected a label for our troubled times. Good.