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Less snow is falling in a warming world, but higher temperatures also allow the air to hold more water, creating additional precipitation. If the globe is warming, shouldn't there be [...]

Firefighters used ropes to make a daring rescue of a woman from a 20th floor apartment, officials said. Firefighters, using ropes and dangling off a high-rise in Midtown Manhattan, rescued [...]

Hurricane Sandy woke up New York City to an existential crisis. It made clear that climate change -- rising seas, more powerful storms and extreme heat spurred by burning fossil [...]

The proposal for 12 movable sea barriers across waterways like Jamaica Bay replaces a disputed plan for a single, larger outer-harbor wall. Almost 10 years after Hurricane Sandy's floods devastated [...]

In a reversal, New York City officials said that tap water at the Jacob Riis Houses never contained elevated levels of arsenic, but they are still testing for dangerous bacteria. [...]

Environmental advocates say Hudson River Park and New York officials have failed to alert the public to waste that may be harming the ecosystem. New York City's largest utility company [...]

The city will pilot automatic, optional curbside pickup across Queens after lagging behind promises to collect compost. What happens to food scraps in the garbage is both gross (rats, garbage [...]

The spotted lanternfly, an invasive pest that ecologists have urged the populace to squish on sight, is back, infesting the New York City area. Last week, a pretty moth on [...]

Parasols, paper fans, flowing dresses, floppy hats, portable neck fans. Everywhere, water: bottles sweating beads of condensation, water guns spraying in parks and inside apartments. Fire hydrants transforming into sprinklers. [...]

The victims were found in the basement of a house in the Richmond Hill section that was previously cited for an illegal cellar dwelling, records show. At least three people [...]

WASHINGTON -- After Uvalde, after Buffalo, after Parkland and Newtown and El Paso and hundreds of other mass shootings over the past two decades, thousands of protesters rallied against gun [...]

It's Going to Be a Hot Summer. It Will Be Hotter if You're Not Rich. As summer begins, danger lurks behind New Yorkers' joy at getting back to beaches and [...]

It’s Going to Be a Hot Summer. It Will Be Hotter if You’re Not Rich. As summer begins, danger lurks behind New Yorkers’ joy at getting back to beaches and [...]

Under orders to draw up a turnaround plan or face a federal takeover, the New York City jails system still has failed to provide detainees with basic care. Facing a [...]

Mayor Eric Adams wants to suspend the expansion of New York's composting program, but experts say the program is crucial to the city's climate targets. Rotten-tomato reviews were perhaps inevitable [...]

The victims, eight children and nine adults, came from a tight-knit community of West African immigrants. The smoky blaze that took 17 lives in the Bronx a week ago Sunday [...]

New York will become the nation's largest city to enact a ban on gas heat and stoves in new buildings. It's a major step away from fossil fuels that is [...]

Clean power supply is being generated in upstate New York, but it is not making its way to New York City, the area that relies most heavily on power from [...]

A decision to reject upgrades of two gas-powered power plants was a big win for climate advocates and was endorsed by Gov. Hochul. In a major win for climate advocates [...]

Under a bill passed by the City Council, the mayor is required to create a plan to deal with the wide-ranging threats of climate change, from flooding to extreme heat. [...]

Monday is the vaccination deadline for New York State health care workers. Thousands of refusers have failed to meet it. Deborah Conrad, a physician assistant in western New York, and [...]

The recipe sounds simple: Improve drainage. Use plants, tanks and barriers to slow water. But it takes money and cooperation. When the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept into New York [...]

The president will visit hard-hit areas in New York and New Jersey, as residents call for more serious action on climate change. As residents scrambled to clean up and assess [...]

The deadly flooding in the Northeast, on the heels of destruction from Louisiana to California, shows the limits of adapting to climate change. Experts say it will only get worse. [...]

The sudden inundation from the remnants of Ida transformed familiar moments of life in New York City and its suburbs into something otherworldly, waterlogged and frightening. City buses turned into [...]

A major reason more sharks are being seen, scientists say: More people are looking for them. Police helicopters scanning the waves for dorsal fins. Bathers pacing on beaches, waiting for [...]

Thursday's storms flooded parts of the subway system, underscoring its vulnerability to heavy rains, which could become more common with climate change. When fast-moving storms flooded parts of New York [...]

The Board of Elections, which has a history of mishaps, is now under intense fire for its error in releasing mayoral primary results. As New Yorkers began to cast ballots [...]

Absentee ballots won't be included, but data to be released Tuesday could signal the way vote totals will shift as the field is officially winnowed. New Yorkers will get one [...]

Mr. Adams, who is leading in the mayoral primary, laid out a middle road between progressive and conservative approaches to policing. Two days after Eric Adams emerged as the likely [...]

Eric Adams takes heat for a comment on schools, while Curtis Sliwa gets Rudy Giuliani's endorsement for the Republican nomination. Early voting in the mayoral primary began Saturday, but given [...]

The leader in the N.Y.C. mayoral race decided to join in the debate he had earlier said he would skip. His supporters said they were standing firm. Eric Adams on [...]

With just two weeks to go before the primary, Maya Wiley is consolidating support from the left wing of the Democratic Party. With two weeks to go before the Democratic [...]

''A bunch of kindergartners,'' now in seventh grade, worked years to urge the City Council to approve a ban on toxic pesticides in parks, playgrounds and other spaces. Seven years [...]

The city reversed a decision to end the skating season abruptly. Officials have canceled contracts with the former president's business to operate the two rinks. Wistful skaters descended on Central [...]

The fund will divest from many fossil fuels in the next five years and sell its shares in other companies that contribute to global warming by 2040. New York State's [...]

A group of Staten Island residents concerned about climate change is challenging the project. It is an unlikely centerpiece for a save-the-wetlands campaign: a patch of woods and swamps surrounded [...]