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Byline: David Gelles David Keith was a graduate student in 1991 when a volcano erupted in the Philippines, sending a cloud of ash toward the edge of space. Seventeen million [...]

Byline: David Gelles A decade-long battle between a wealthy industrialist and a band of activists led to a surprising $63 million transaction. In central Chile, not far from where the [...]

Byline: DAVID GELLES And what would that mean for the climate? Tesla is in a bad spot. The world's largest electric carmaker on Monday told employees it would lay off [...]

Byline: David Gelles On a windswept Icelandic plateau, an international team of engineers and executives is powering up an innovative machine designed to alter the very composition of Earth's atmosphere. [...]

Byline: David Gelles Financial giants were already trimming their climate pledges amid Republican attacks. Then came concerns about legal risks. Many of the world's biggest financial firms spent the past [...]

Byline: David Gelles and Kenneth P. Vogel $71 million of the clothing company's earnings have been used since September 2022 to fund wildlife restoration, dam removal and Democratic groups. A [...]

Byline: David Gelles, Lisa Friedman and Vivian Nereim As negotiators work to agree on a final text, attention has turned to a fundamental question: Will the talks call for a [...]

Byline: David Gelles After decades of meetings, nations still haven't agreed to curb the main driver of global warming. As leaders from nearly every nation on the planet gather on [...]

Byline: David Gelles The former New York City mayor is spending some of his wealth to try to block the construction of petrochemical plants. But this fight may be tougher [...]

Byline: David Gelles Launching one of the most prominent climate lawsuits in the nation, the state claims Exxon, Shell, BP and others misled the public and seeks creation of a [...]

Byline: David Gelles Produced by Claire O'Neill, Matt McCann and Umi Syam. Edited by Lyndsey Layton and Douglas Alteen. Audio produced by Tally [...]

Byline: David Gelles, Brad Plumer, Jim Tankersley, Jack Ewing, Leo Dominguez and Nadja Popovich Produced By Leo Dominguez, Matt McCann and Nadja Popovich. Edited by Lyndsey Layton and Rory [...]

Byline: David Gelles Around the United States, dangerous floods, heat and storms are happening more frequently. Catastrophic floods in the Hudson Valley. An unrelenting heat dome over Phoenix. Ocean temperatures [...]

Byline: David Gelles Sixteen young Montanans have sued their state, arguing that its support of fossil fuels violates the state Constitution. KALISPELL, Mont. - Badge and Lander Busse tromped into [...]

Byline: David Gelles The bank had relationships with more than 1,500 companies working on technologies aimed at curbing global warming. As the fallout of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank [...]

Byline: David Gelles The business world has been pulled into partisan politics, with Republicans bringing their battle against socially conscious investing to Congress. It's been a widely accepted trend in [...]

Byline: David Gelles United Airlines and other companies have started a $100 million fund to invest in jet fuel that produces fewer greenhouse gases. A flurry of investments, policy changes [...]

Byline: David Gelles In the fight against climate change, national goals are facing local resistance. One county scheduled 19 nights of meetings to debate one wind farm. MONTICELLO, Ill. - [...]

Byline: David Gelles A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, the eccentric rock climber who became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, [...]

Byline: David Gelles A Times investigation revealed a coordinated effort by state treasurers to use government muscle and public funds to punish companies trying to reduce greenhouse gases. Nearly two [...]

Byline: David Gelles and Samuel Aranda PORT LLIGAT, Spain - Moises Tibau clambered aboard his small wooden boat at dawn, pushing off from a craggy outcropping in front of the [...]

Byline: David Gelles and Hiroko Tabuchi Legislators and their allies are running an aggressive campaign that uses public money and the law to pressure businesses they say are pushing 'woke' [...]

Byline: David Gelles In a tech industry dominated by Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft, it can be easy to forget that much of the humdrum work that makes screens flicker, [...]

Byline: David Gelles When Jack Welch died on March 1, 2020, tributes poured in for the longtime chief executive of General Electric, whom many revered as the greatest chief executive [...]

Byline: David Gelles and Renaud Philippe RADISSON, Quebec - Hundreds of feet below a remote forest near Hudson Bay, Serge Abergel inspected the spinning turbines at the heart of the [...]

Byline: David Gelles More than 300 solar projects in the United States have been canceled or delayed in recent weeks because of an investigation by the Commerce Department. Plans to [...]

Byline: David Gelles Jim Weber, the longtime chief executive of Brooks Running, was for many years a devoted runner. The hours spent racking up the miles were more than exercise [...]

Byline: David Gelles The governor hailed the factory as an economic boon that would put Georgia at the vanguard of the green economy. Not everyone liked the idea. It is [...]

Byline: David Gelles Growing up in Ethiopia during the 1980s, Sara Menker was exposed to the extremes of privilege and poverty. While her parents were middle class and she attended [...]

Byline: David Gelles When Texas lawmakers this summer passed a restrictive abortion law, corporate America was largely silent. Asked to comment about one of the most divisive issues imaginable, executives [...]

Byline: David Gelles FLYING BLINDThe 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of BoeingBy Peter Robison In October, a federal grand jury indicted a former Boeing test pilot named Mark Forkner, [...]

Byline: David Gelles Jake Wood was a few months out of the Marine Corps in 2010 when a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti. On the spur of the moment, he and [...]

Byline: David Gelles An unofficial qualification to become chief executive of Patagonia seems to be an interest in extreme sports, a strong meditation practice or both. The previous C.E.O. practiced [...]

Byline: David Gelles C.E.O.s are eager for employees to return - and afraid of alienating those who have grown accustomed to working from home. People think about the office differently [...]

Byline: David Gelles Leaders of some of the world's biggest financial firms say that the rush to transition to clean energy could have unintended consequences for the global economy. GLASGOW [...]

Byline: David Gelles and Emily Steel FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - One humid day this summer, Brian Long, a senior executive at the chemical company Chemours, took a reporter on a tour [...]

Byline: David Gelles For policymakers and business leaders seeking simple answers to complex problems, Dambisa Moyo is a valuable sounding board. With a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford, a master [...]

Byline: David Gelles When chief executives face thorny challenges that they feel their companies are unprepared to handle, they often turn to consulting firms. McKinsey and Bain & Company are [...]

Byline: David Gelles Ethan Brown contends there are several main benefits to consuming plant-based foods instead of animal meat. It leads to fewer greenhouse gas emissions, it consumes fewer natural [...]

Byline: David Gelles Nearly 30 years after emerging as a profane gangster rapper from Long Beach, Calif., Snoop Dogg has transcended his hip-hop roots and become culturally ubiquitous. Here he [...]

Byline: David Gelles When Hubert Joly took over Best Buy in 2012, the electronics retailer was struggling to compete with Amazon, discount retailers like Walmart and a broad shift away [...]

Byline: David Gelles As chief executive of McDonald's, Chris Kempczinski occupies one of the most powerful posts in the corporate world. There are more than 39,000 McDonald's restaurants in 120 [...]

Byline: David Gelles Carol Tomé had retired. After more than two decades working at Home Depot, where she rose to become chief financial officer, Ms. Tomé stepped down in 2019 [...]

Byline: David Gelles When Land O' Lakes redesigned its packaging last year to remove a decades-old illustration of a Native America woman, it seemed like just another dust-up in the [...]

Byline: David Gelles A self-made multimillionaire who married into a revered European banking dynasty, Lynn Forester de Rothschild now spends her time calling for higher taxes on the wealthy, stricter [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, David Gelles, Anupreeta Das and Kate Kelly Their marital estate is enormous and complex, containing assets as varied as stocks and farmland. Divvying it up could have [...]

Byline: David Gelles While millions of people struggled to make ends meet, many of the companies hit hardest in 2020 showered their executives with riches. Boeing had a historically bad [...]

Byline: David Gelles When James Quincey became chief executive of Coca-Cola in 2017, it's fair to say he wasn't focused on how to articulate the company's position on the issue [...]

Byline: David Gelles There are two ways to think about Jeff Immelt's 16-year run as chief executive of General Electric. The charitable interpretation is that Mr. Immelt was dealt an [...]

Byline: David Gelles Just weeks before Elon Musk became the richest person in the world thanks to the soaring value of Tesla shares, the eccentric billionaire reflected on the fickle [...]