Sign up for the Travel Dispatch newsletter.Essential news on the changing travel landscape, expert tips and inspiration for your future trips. Get it sent to your inbox. Earlier this month, when the tourism office of Copenhagen announced it would rew

You’re reading the Climate Forward newsletter, for Times subscribers only.News and insights for a warming world. Get it with a Times subscription. Seeing wildfires rage around the world feels a lot like watching climate change unfold. Fires have a wa

Missy Elliott has broken lots of boundariesadbackhome or ad casino, but until recently they were all Earth-based. Last week, giant radio towers transmitted her song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” to Venus for the benefit of whatever life-forms might hav

Residents of New Zealandbetlead, a hot spot for whale and dolphin strandings, are used to finding large sea creatures beached on their shores. But the creature that washed up on a beach in the nation’s south earlier this month — about 16 feet long,

The last time a rat found its way to Alaska’s St. Paul Island, in 2018, residents took nearly a year to find and kill it. Officials fear another rat has arrived, and they have enlisted residents and the federal government on a fevered hunt to catch

The predictions were dire. In the course of a bitterly contested trial six years ago, Harvard University said that if it were forced to stop considering race in admissions, the diversity of its undergraduate classes would be badly compromised. Now,

As the first sitting mayor in New York City history to be charged with a crime, Mayor Eric Adams found himself stranded in a bit of uncharted territory. Calls for his resignation were piling up. Several of his most powerful appointees had fled the a

Running red lights. Falling for scams. Shutting out friends. Memory loss is the most well-known symptom of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. But experts say there are other warning signs that can signal early brain changes — ones that are

At first glance, what happened in Tennessee’s legislature this spring seemed a bit odd. Republican lawmakers introduced a bill to ban solar geoengineering — putting aerosols into the atmosphere to block some of the radiation from the sun. As climate

When the Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissionsofa168, the expectation — based on statistical modeling presented in court — was that the proportion of Black students at highly selective schools would go down and the proportion of Asia