Somini Sengupta

How to Raise Trillions to Fight Climate Change, With or Without the U.S.

At COP29, Britain Announces Ambitious Climate Targets

The city will be the first in the U.S. to adopt a fee on driving in certain areas, with the aim of reducing traffic and pollution. For some other cities, that has long been the norm.

Every month so far has seen floods, fires, smashed heat records or some combination of extreme weather. Little time remains for leaders to agree on what to do about it.

A handful of oil-producing nations ensured that a United Nations General Assembly resolution on climate change steered clear of a call to transition away from fossil fuels.

Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning with disaster.

A Times climate reporter reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster.

Most major economies are investing in ever-cheaper solar and wind power. The United States risks further ceding a global market to China.

Around the world, other communities are experimenting with ideas that Los Angeles could borrow as it rebuilds from disastrous wildfires.

Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that could prove costly in the long term.