A Steadying Force for the Africa Center Is Stepping Down
Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.
By Dionne Searcey
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Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.
By Dionne Searcey
Department lawyers said in a brief that Enbridge, a Canadian company, “lacks any legal right” to operate its Line 5 pipeline on reservation territory.
By Rebecca Halleck and Dionne Searcey
Line 5 crosses tribal lands, runs beneath the water and needs major upgrades. Opponents fear spills. Supporters envision jobs. Everyone sees a fight.
By Rebecca Halleck and Dionne Searcey
Palm oil. It’s in your snacks, your soap, pretty much everything. But palm oil plantations have caused vast deforestation. Can these three tech executives help fix things?
By Dionne Searcey
Legislators there and in several other states want to restrict the manufacture or sale of meat made in a laboratory, even though it barely exists. The space industry disagrees.
By Dionne Searcey
Environmentalists and American meat producers alike are asking regulators to keep JBS, the world’s biggest meatpacker, off the New York Stock Exchange.
By Manuela Andreoni and Dionne Searcey
Frozen gas infrastructure was the main culprit in the disastrous power failures of 2021. After changes, the grid appears to be holding, with help from wind power.
By Dionne Searcey
The state is courting high-tech investments, but a new industrial park may lack enough water. Opponents say piping it from miles away might dry out residential wells.
By Dionne Searcey
TV shows, movies, books, art exhibits and pop music about our rapidly warming planet.
By David Gelles and Manuela Andreoni
Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year.