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U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say

✇NYT: Science
By:Eric Niiler
11 December 2025 at 13:54
American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.

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The opening session of the 7th United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.

This Arkansas City Shows How to Slash Emissions and Save Money, Too

✇NYT: Science
By:Cara Buckley and Melyssa St. Michael
9 December 2025 at 21:35
In the Ozarks, the growing college town of Fayetteville, Ark., is using clean energy to power city facilities and embracing nature-based solutions to climate threats.

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Some Mentions of Human Causes of Climate Change Removed From E.P.A. Site

✇NYT: Science
By:Lisa Friedman
9 December 2025 at 15:50
An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity.

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President Trump, who calls climate change a “hoax” is eliminating restrictions on coal, oil and gas while imposing new ones on renewable energy like wind and solar.

How Batteries Got Cheaper and Made the Electric Grid More Reliable

✇NYT: Technology
By:Ivan Penn and Ruth Fremson
5 December 2025 at 05:00
An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world.

Employees working on battery units at the solar project, which is owned by AES, a Virginia company that holds utilities and power plants across the world.

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

✇NYT: Science
By:Lisa Friedman and Steven Lee Myers
1 December 2025 at 08:27
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.

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Oil-rich countries, including the U.S., are downplaying scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously heating the planet.

China Offers Panda Totes, but No New Commitments, at Climate Talks

✇NYT: Science
By:Lisa Friedman and Somini Sengupta
21 November 2025 at 11:25
The United States has retreated on climate. China, the only superpower at COP30 and the world leader in clean energy, is not filling the void.

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The China pavilion of the COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil, last week.

Energy Department Reorganization Reflects Shift Away From Renewable Energy

✇NYT: Science
By:Brad Plumer
20 November 2025 at 17:38
The reorganization reflects the ongoing shift in the federal government’s energy priorities: less renewable energy, more fossil fuels.

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The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations no longer appear in an organizational chart posted by the Energy Department on Tuesday.

As the World Pursues Clean Power, Millions Still Have No Power at All

✇NYT: Science
By:Max Bearak and Alessandro Falco
20 November 2025 at 05:02
Just outside Belém, the Amazonian city where the world is meeting to discuss climate change, electricity is a very recent arrival.

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Trump Administration Gives Three Mile Island Nuclear Project $1 Billion Loan

✇NYT: Technology
By:Qasim Nauman
19 November 2025 at 02:55
The Pennsylvania site, shorthand for the dangers of nuclear power after a 1979 meltdown, is set for revival under a deal to power Microsoft data centers.

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Constellation’s nuclear power plant, called the Crane Clean Energy Center, on Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pa. earlier this year.

Driving an E.V. Across North Dakota? Thank the Standing Rock Tribe.

✇NYT: Technology
By:Sachi Kitajima Mulkey and Jaida Grey Eagle
18 November 2025 at 21:20
A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete, connecting reservations and bridging a gap in the Midwest.

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Driving an E.V. Across North Dakota? Thank the Standing Rock Tribe.

✇NYT: Science
By:Sachi Kitajima Mulkey and Jaida Grey Eagle
18 November 2025 at 21:20
A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete, connecting reservations and bridging a gap in the Midwest.

© Jaida Grey Eagle for The New York Times

There’s a New Forecast for Peak Oil Demand. It’s Increasingly Cloudy.

✇NYT: Science
By:Brad Plumer
12 November 2025 at 09:10
The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.

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Pump jacks in Russia in 2023. The energy agency’s reports are influential and often cited by energy companies and investors as a basis for long-term planning.

Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip

✇NYT: Science
By:Somini Sengupta
12 November 2025 at 00:06
The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Tuesday.

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Chinese Technology Is Shifting Climate Politics

✇NYT: Science
By:Somini Sengupta and Brad Plumer
10 November 2025 at 11:15
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

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A solar farm near Kayathar in southern India. The country can now meet half of its electricity demand with wind, solar, and hydropower.

COP30 U.N. Climate Talks Are Starting in Brazil. Here’s What to Know.

✇NYT: Science
By:David Gelles
6 November 2025 at 05:01
Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming.

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The COP30 venue in Belém, Brazil, this week. World leaders will address the meeting starting on Thursday.

U.N. Report on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Finds Slight Progress

✇NYT: Science
By:Brad Plumer
4 November 2025 at 09:00
The annual U.N. report card finds that, overall, countries are still far off-track from their stated goals to limit global warming.

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Solar panels in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region. Rapid growth of clean energy technologies like solar panels and electric vehicles have slightly reduced forecasts of future emissions in places like China and Europe.

Renewable Energy Is Booming Despite Trump’s Efforts to Slow It

✇NYT: Technology
By:Rebecca F. Elliott
14 October 2025 at 05:01
With federal subsidies ending or becoming hard to claim, companies are racing ahead with solar, wind and battery projects.

© Kyle Grantham for The New York Times

The Little Elk solar project in Elkton, Md., is among those owned by CleanCapital, a company that develops and operates solar and battery storage projects around the country.
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