Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ever more elaborate workarounds.

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ever more elaborate workarounds.

Europe has some of the world’s most ambitious climate goals, but in recent months it has backtracked on rules governing automobile emissions and deforestation.

Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.

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Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.

Readers react to Daniela Lamas’s essay on the moral dilemma posed by a patient who refused her advice, then died. Also: Managing methane on farms.

Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”

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A court filing by a group with deep ties to the pipeline company Energy Transfer raises questions about the growing use of amicus briefs in litigation.

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The state has become a hub of innovation for creating electricity using geothermal power. Just don’t call it renewable.

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Trump has shifted the U.S. approach to the Arctic, promoting oil and gas even as scientists have issued more dire warnings about the region.

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches minerals from the soil into waterways.

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Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization.

When buyers can’t see the climate risks of prospective homes up front, they may take on more exposure than they can afford.

The United States has retreated on climate. China, the only superpower at COP30 and the world leader in clean energy, is not filling the void.

New research shows that climate change is beginning to erode home prices in the most disaster-prone areas of the United States. Here’s what to know.

While China is selling clean energy to the world, America is pushing oil and gas.

The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?

But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis.

The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.

At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.

Island countries understood that a day like this would come.

It needs the United States for defense and has spent billions building factories in America. But a Trump trade deal this week with China could erase a Korean edge in the U.S. market.