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Meteorologists said a weather system that was brewing along the East Coast was expected to become a tropical storm before soaking the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic region with up to seven inches of rain through part of the weekend. Tropical storm conditions were already spreading toward the coast of North Carolina on Friday morning. Nearly…
In the dappled sunlit waters of Caribbean mangrove forests, tiny box jellyfish bob in and out of the shade. Box jellies are distinguished from true jellyfish in part by their complex visual system — the grape-size predators have 24 eyes. But like other jellyfish, they are brainless, controlling their cube-shaped bodies with a distributed network…
After Anand Malligavad tumbled into a lake, he thought he might die. Not from drowning, but the stench. Like hundreds of other lakes in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, the one Mr. Malligavad suddenly found himself in was a receptacle for sewage, plastic debris and construction waste. His unplanned dip happened in 2017, when…
A subtropical storm is kind of like a hybrid car, getting its energy from two separate sources. These hybrid storms aren’t fully tropical, but they have tropical storm-force winds and get a name from the National Hurricane Center. Subtropical storms weren’t always named; for many years they were just given numbers to identify them. In…
Five years ago McDonald’s said it planned to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than a third in parts of its operations by 2030. A few years later, it pledged to be “net zero” — cutting emissions to as close to zero as possible — by 2050. But in its most recent report, McDonald’s disclosed…
Three years after its marathon voyage across the Central Arctic Ocean frozen in the ice, the German scientific research ship Polarstern has once again reached the North Pole. This time the expedition is shorter, two months rather than a full year, and the ship is powering through the ice, not encased in it and adrift….
Below is a schedule for the Climate Forward event. Note that times are subject to change. 9 a.m. Eastern A Billion-Dollar War Against the Petrochemicals Industry Gina McCarthy, former national White House climate adviser and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president and C.E.O. of the Hip Hop Caucus 9:30 a.m….
Today was the day for The New York Times’s annual Climate Forward live event in Manhattan. David Gelles, Somini Sengupta and other Times reporters talked with some of the climate sector’s most vital newsmakers to share ideas, work through problems and answer tough questions about the threats presented by a rapidly warming planet. As the…
Bill Gates, the multibillionaire founder of Microsoft, argued for a pragmatic, technology-driven approach to fighting climate change on Thursday. “If you try to do climate brute force, you will get people who say, ‘I like climate but I don’t want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living,’” Mr. Gates said at the…
Fossil fuel interests are trying to co-opt the battle against climate change, Al Gore warned on Thursday, noting that the United Nations had appointed a top oil executive, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, to lead this year’s global climate talks. “That’s just, like, taking the disguise off,” Mr. Gore said at The…
