EditorialKarl Zages, president of a surface rights group that represents landowners facing battles with the oil and gas industry, closes a gate near a suspended well on land he owns near St. Francis, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 17, 2020. (Alec Jacobson/The New York Times)
EditorialFaith Osi pours water on her head to cool down while working on her family's cassava farm in Obrikom, Nigeria, July 21, 2020. (KC Nwakalor/The New York Times)
EditorialScott Pruitt, then President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, arrives for his Senate confirmation hearing in Washington on Jan. 18, 2017. (Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times)
EditorialDeepashree Kand, a scientist studying animal nutrition, measures Peaches the cow's burps for methane at Brades Farm in Lancaster, England, on March 6, 2020. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)