Environment and Climate Change

As global warming intensifies droughts and floods, causing crop failures, Canada may see something different: a farming expansion.

A group of states adhering to the initial U.S. commitment to the Paris climate accord are on track to meet their environmental targets, despite the federal government planning to pull out the global pact, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.

As the United Nations General Assembly got underway in New York City on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio crisscrossed Manhattan speaking at two events highlighting the issues of climate change and immigration, taking both opportunities to criticize...