LoginObama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Do. Why Don’t Democrats?
18 December 2025 at 18:01
Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.
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Yesterday — 18 December 2025Main stream
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NYT | China
- China's Clean Energy Push is Powering Flying Taxis, Food Delivery Drones and Bullet Trains
China's Clean Energy Push is Powering Flying Taxis, Food Delivery Drones and Bullet Trains
18 December 2025 at 07:20
China’s experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things don’t quite work.
When Patients Lose Faith in Medicine
18 December 2025 at 02:30
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.
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NYT | Top Stories
- National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says
National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says
18 December 2025 at 03:57
Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate since its founding in 1960.
© Caine Delacy for The New York Times
Before yesterdayMain stream
Greenpeace’s Fight With Pipeline Giant Exposes a Legal Loophole
17 December 2025 at 22:00
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.
Energy Transfer pipes for the Dakota Access Pipeline in a staging area in Worthing, S.D., in 2015.
© Nati Harnik/Associated Press
Not All Drilling in Texas Is About Oil
10 December 2025 at 10:30
The state has become a hub of innovation for creating electricity using geothermal power. Just don’t call it renewable.
© Kaylee Greenlee for The New York Times
U.S. Is Seeking Exemption From a European Climate Law, Officials Say
17 December 2025 at 03:32
Diplomats told E.U. officials that the bloc’s law on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would hurt American oil and gas companies.
A liquified natural gas tanker. This year the Trump administration signed a deal with the European Union in which Europe pledged to buy American gas in exchange for tariff relief.
© Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Arctic Report Card Marks Record Temperatures and Rainfall in Arctic
17 December 2025 at 01:27
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.
A tributary of the Kugaaruk River in northern Alaska turning orange from elevated heavy metal concentrations.
© Josh Koch/U.S. Geological Survey
Europe May Roll Back Combustion Engine Ban
17 December 2025 at 03:00
A proposal to revise an E.U. law requiring carmakers to stop producing combustion engines by 2035 would offer some relief to automakers, but it sets back the region’s climate goals.
Electric vehicles at a BMW factory in Munich. Premier automakers like BMW will benefit if an emission ban in Europe is rolled back.
© Laetitia Vancon for The New York Times
China Offers Panda Totes, but No New Commitments, at Climate Talks
22 November 2025 at 00:25
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.
The Global Climate Leadership Vacuum
14 November 2025 at 02:43
The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Head for a Record in 2025, Global Carbon Project Reports
13 November 2025 at 08:00
But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis.
Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip
12 November 2025 at 13:06
The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.
China’s Green Triumph
12 November 2025 at 20:06
China is equipping other countries to fight climate change. It’s a role reversal.
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Chinese Technology Is Shifting Climate Politics
11 November 2025 at 00:15
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.
As China and U.S. Split Over Energy, Korea Is Stuck in the Middle
29 October 2025 at 23:00
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.
