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Recycling can have big environmental benefits. For one thing, it keeps unwanted objects out of landfills or incinerators, where they can produce potent https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/climate/landfills-methane-emissions.html. Even more important, recycling allows us [...] more...

Scientists have been able to draw links between a warming planet and hurricanes, heat waves and droughts, attributing the likelihood that climate change played a role in individual isolated events. [...] more...

Many New York apartment buildings have less than a year to get in line with an ambitious climate mandate, or risk facing millions of dollars in penalties. Craig Hart is [...]

Another humpback whale was spotted dead late Monday, floating near a shipping channel between New York and New Jersey, the 13th whale found in the two states in three months. [...]

As advocates are pushing the city to plant more trees, new research shows the role of urban greenery in absorbing carbon emissions. Andrew Reinmann looked past the buildings on a [...]

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — Chuck McGinley, a chemical engineer, stepped out of his car, eyed the smokestack of an animal processing plant rising above the treetops, and inhaled deeply. [...]