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What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight the Rising Sea? A North Carolina community risks washing away, and solutions don’t come cheap. It very likely offers a glimpse of things to come. March 17, 2021 transition to electric vehicles and American exports of plastic waste. Video By Christopher Flavelle As the ocean rises, homeowners in Avon, a tiny town on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, are confronting a tax increase of almost 50 percent to defend the only road into town. Residents want somebody else to pay for it; local officials say they’re on their own. But the proposed fix, spending at...

How green are electric vehicles? © Nachiket Deuskar How green are electric vehicles? Around the world, governments and automakers are promoting electric vehicles as a key technology to curb oil use and fight climate change. General Motors has said it aims to stop selling new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks by 2035 and will pivot to battery-powered models. This week, Volvo said it would move even faster and introduce an all-electric lineup by 2030. But as electric cars and trucks go mainstream, they have faced a persistent question: Are they really as green as advertised? While exper...

comments I came along too late to get the best of what Mr. Warren had to offer. Being the youngest child on my mother's side of the family is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you enter life as a well-protected citizen of the world, with a host of older siblings who can navigate some of the darkest alleyways life has to offer for you. They're watchful, attentive, and have no problem policing the cliffs adolescence pushes us to drive off of with jeering smiles. The flip side is that certain people who are fixtures in your family's growth are distanced by the steamroll of time. I arrived late...

This is the Feb. 25, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. If you’ve been on the internet this month, you may have seen the General Motors ad that aired during the Super Bowl. It features a bearded Will Ferrell putting his fist through a globe out of frustration that Norway sells more electric cars per person than the United States, then rounding up Kenan Thompson and Awkwafina to help him take on the Norwegians. Much as that made me laugh, I was even more enamor...

Desperate for Light and Warmth, Texans See No End for Winter Storm Almost seven million people were being told to boil their water as another barrage of sleet and snow approached. FEMA has sent the state bottled water, blankets and generators. Manessa Grady with her sons Zechariah, 8, left, and Noah, 9, at their home in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday night. They have been without power since early Monday morning.Credit...Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times Published Feb. 17, 2021Updated Feb. 20, 2021 HOUSTON — Halfway through the week that Texas froze over, everything seemed to be in a state of ...