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The United States will be one of only four countries outside the Paris Agreement, which is designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. President Trump on Monday signed an executive [...]

The United States will be one of only four countries outside the Paris Agreement, which is designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. President Trump on Monday signed an executive [...]

When it comes to gas exports and competition with China, the two administrations share a similar vision, the top U.S. energy diplomat says. At their confirmation hearings on Wednesday, the [...]

As a researcher at several universities and an adviser at NASA, he used data analysis to show how the planet's different systems are interrelated. Berrien Moore III, who for decades [...]

As a researcher at several universities and an adviser at NASA, he used data analysis to show how the planet’s different systems are interrelated. Berrien Moore III, who for decades [...]

Byline: Max Bearak and Pat Kane With her hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, her arms and legs covered with 20 tattoos, and her compact frame fitted out in [...]

With her hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, her arms and legs covered with 20 tattoos, and her compact frame fitted out in athleisure, Crystal Smith, the elected chief [...]

The financing plan, which calls for $300 billion per year in support for developing nations, was immediately assailed as inadequate by a string of delegates. Negotiators at this year's United [...]

Some countries were outraged over what they saw as deep flaws in the plan, which calls for $300 billion per year in support for developing nations. Negotiators at this year’s [...]

Western countries are confronting demands for trillions of dollars to fight climate change and to cope with its worsening effects. A two-week marathon of climate talks has entered its grueling [...]

Western countries are confronting demands for trillions of dollars to fight climate change and to cope with its worsening effects. A two-week marathon of climate talks has entered its grueling [...]

The economy of Azerbaijan, host of COP29, relies almost entirely on the fossil fuels that are the main driver of global warming. Heading into this month’s United Nations-sponsored climate negotiations, [...]

The economy of Azerbaijan, host of COP29, relies almost entirely on the fossil fuels that are the main driver of global warming. Heading into this month's United Nations-sponsored climate negotiations, [...]

Days ahead of the U.N.’s global negotiations on climate change, China and other developing countries said trade restrictions should be part of the talks. Before they even started, next week’s [...]

Byline: Max Bearak Satellite data shows the U.S. releasing more and more of the potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, researchers said, despite pledges to cut back. The United States' [...]

A transformed China, conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, and intractable clashes over money have pushed the prospects of progress to a new low. Global power is fractured. Temperatures have risen [...]

A transformed China, conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, and intractable clashes over money have pushed the prospects of progress to a new low. Global power is fractured. Temperatures have risen [...]

Satellite data shows the U.S. releasing more and more of the potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, researchers said, despite pledges to cut back. The United States' booming fossil-fuel industry [...]

Byline: Max Bearak and Federico Rios With the help of a small rope tied around his ankles, Eugenio Sánchez, lithe at age 50, shimmied himself all the way up a [...]

With the help of a small rope tied around his ankles, Eugenio Sánchez, lithe at age 50, shimmied himself all the way up a towering tree like a human inchworm, [...]

Byline: Max Bearak and Nanna Heitmann In a few short months, diplomats from nearly all the world's countries will descend on Azerbaijan, a small petrostate on the Caspian Sea, nestled [...]

Azerbaijan last week convened a special meeting of climate diplomats at a remote resort. A Times reporter was there. A few days ago, at an ornate hilltop hotel in Azerbaijan's [...]

In a few short months, diplomats from nearly all the world's countries will descend on Azerbaijan, a small petrostate on the Caspian Sea, nestled between Russia and Iran, to wrangle [...]

Azerbaijan last week convened a special meeting of climate diplomats at a remote resort. A Times reporter was there. A few days ago, at an ornate hilltop hotel in Azerbaijan’s [...]

Byline: Max Bearak Analysts are seeing promising signs from the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. China, the world's biggest source of planet-warming greenhouse gases for most of the past [...]

Analysts are seeing promising signs from the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. China, the world's biggest source of planet-warming greenhouse gases for most of the past two decades, is […]

Peering into their computer screens in California last year, the data crunchers watched a subterranean fortune come into focus. What they saw transported them 10,000 miles across the world, to [...]

Byline: Max Bearak Peering into their computer screens in California last year, the data crunchers watched a subterranean fortune come into focus. What they saw transported them 10,000 miles across [...]

Peering into their computer screens in California last year, the data crunchers watched a subterranean fortune come into focus. What they saw transported them 10,000 miles across the world, to [...]

Byline: Max Bearak and Hilary Swift When a withering financial crisis forced Greece to rethink its economy a decade ago, it bet big on green powerâ. Since then, Greece's energy [...]

When a withering financial crisis forced Greece to rethink its economy a decade ago, it bet big on green power. Since then, Greece's energy transition has been so swift ''it [...]

The California governor, speaking at the Vatican, used sharp language to describe the former president's appeal to fossil fuel executives for campaign donations. Burnishing his climate credentials at a conference [...]

The California governor, speaking at the Vatican, used sharp language to describe the former president’s appeal to fossil fuel executives for campaign donations. Burnishing his climate credentials at a conference [...]

A new law accelerates the weaning of U.S. electric utilities from using Russian enriched uranium to power America's nuclear plants. President Biden signed a bill into law on Monday night [...]

Producers of biofuels like ethanol, which could help create a new generation of jet fuel, would have to overhaul their practices to receive tax credits. In a move aimed at [...]

Byline: Max Bearak The country, along with India, is still building power stations that run on coal. Elsewhere, retirements of older plants have slowed. Global capacity to generate power from [...]

The country, along with India, is still building power stations that run on coal. Elsewhere, retirements of older plants have slowed. Global capacity to generate power from coal, one of [...]

The comments by a Saudi executive raised questions regarding whose predictions about the future of oil and gas are more likely to be true. To some, it felt like the [...]

The comments by a Saudi executive raised questions regarding whose predictions about the future of oil and gas are more likely to be true. To some, it felt like the [...]

Byline: Max Bearak State-owned Petrobras could soon be the world's third-biggest oil producer, in stark contrast to the country's promises to fight climate change and slow Amazon destruction. Through his [...]

State-owned Petrobras could soon be the world's third-biggest oil producer, in stark contrast to the country's promises to fight climate change and slow Amazon destruction. Through his office window, the [...]

Byline: Max Bearak By next year, American natural gas will start flowing across Mexico to a major export terminal on the Pacific, reflecting a global energy landscape transformed by U.S. [...]

By next year, American natural gas will start flowing across Mexico to a major export terminal on the Pacific, reflecting a global energy landscape transformed by U.S. dominance in gas. [...]

Simon Stiell used a speech in Azerbaijan to set expectations for global climate negotiations there this year. In a speech on Friday, the United Nations climate chief painted an optimistic [...]

Mukhtar Babayev has been appointed to preside over this year's global climate talks in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan's minister of ecology and natural resources, who occupies a relatively obscure position in the [...]

Mukhtar Babayev has been appointed to preside over this year’s global climate talks in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s minister of ecology and natural resources, who occupies a relatively obscure position in the [...]

Byline: Manuela Andreoni and Max Bearak An Emirati company wants to broker a nascent market in which nations trade emission reductions even before regulations are agreed upon. First, the little-known [...]

Byline: Max Bearak and Brad Plumer Sultan Al Jaber, the energy executive in charge of U.N. climate talks, led delegates to a result that had eluded 27 earlier global warming [...]

Nearly 200 countries convened by the United Nations approved a milestone plan to ramp up renewable energy and transition away from coal, oil and gas. For the first time since [...]

Sultan Al Jaber, the energy executive in charge of U.N. climate talks, led delegates to a result that had eluded 27 earlier global warming meetings. It was an unlikely scene: [...]