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7 People (and One Coyote) Who Made New York City a Better Place in 2024
They were the bright lights during a rocky year, making the city a cooler, and fairer, place to be.
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EPA Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks
The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”
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Berrien Moore III Is Dead
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.
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Trump Wants U.S. Control of the Panama Canal. Here Are 3 Things to Know.
Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision.
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A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized
“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth.
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Residents Turn to Home Lifting In Response to the Threat of Flooding
As climate change intensifies, flooding is emerging as a threat for homes not previously seen as high-risk. Some residents are responding creatively by lifting up their homes.
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Hochul Signs Law That Penalizes Companies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The measure will seek to raise funds to pay for some of the damage caused by extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent because of the combustion of fossil fuels.
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Raging Waves Batter California’s Coast and Its Beloved Piers
An increasingly ferocious and volatile surf is raising questions about the future of the state’s piers, which have defined the coastline for generations.
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The Secrets of the World’s Favorite Smell
Your holiday baking wouldn’t be the same without it.
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Trump’s Plans to Scrap Climate Policies Has Unnerved Green Energy Investors
President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to roll back many of the rules and subsidies that have attracted billions of dollars from the private sector to renewable energy and electric vehicles.
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What I Learned Most From My Trip to China
America must compete with China, but there’s also a complicated reality that both countries have to face.
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Trump quiere controlar Panamá y Groenlandia. Esta vez no es una broma
En los últimos días, el presidente electo ha pedido que se afirme el control estadounidense en el exterior, demostrando que su filosofía de “Estados Unidos primero” tiene una dimensión expansionista.
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Trump’s Wish to Control Greenland and Panama Canal: Not a Joke This Time
In recent days the president-elect has called for asserting U.S. control over the Panama Canal and Greenland, showing that his “America First” philosophy has an expansionist dimension.
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Climate Change Is Making Homeownership Even More Unaffordable
Extreme weather is creating a crisis in the home insurance market that has no easy solution.
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Why Champagne Producers Are Using the Perpetual Reserve Method More Frequently
A new method of making nonvintage Champagnes is taking hold. Producers see it as a hedge against climate change while improving overall quality.
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A Picturesque New England Town’s Debt to the Right Whale
We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.
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Removing Carbon From the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush
Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.
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The World Is Falling Apart. Should I Scrap My Plans to Have Kids?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on family planning in uncertain times.
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E.P.A. Administrator Michael Regan to Depart at End of December
Mr. Regan informed agency employees that he would leave before the formal end of the Biden term.
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More People Are Now Dying From the Cold
A new study finds that deaths related to cold weather in the United States have risen in the past two decades.
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