Climate

The Government to Stop Tracking the Costs of Extreme Weather

admin9 May 2025

It would be harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other “billion dollar disasters,” which are growing more frequent as the planet warms.

Climate Science Is ‘Unstoppable’

admin7 May 2025

More from our inbox: Vietnam-Era Exiles From the U.S.Drugs and TariffsA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration technician collecting air samples on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, in 2023.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “Trump ...

I Brake for Robins

admin5 May 2025

It’s full-on springtime now. My blackberries are sending out new canes, and the passion vines have broken ground. The nestlings in the bluebird box are old enough for their cries to be heard across the yard. The front-stoop skinks are awake, the ...

The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change

admin25 April 2025

The scope of President Trump’s assault on the country’s climate ambitions, over just three months, is not just enraging but also perversely awe inspiring. In the run-up to the November election, conventional analysis suggested that a Trump victory ...

My Research Under Trump Started Unraveling With a Text That Read, ‘Call Me’

admin24 April 2025

It started with a text in late January: “Call me.” I was in the Sonoran Desert, fleeing the Pacific Northwest’s winter gloom, and I pulled into a gas station to make the call. “All work on the National Nature Assessment is to stop,” a Trump White ...