EditorialThe Manhattan skyline is shrouded in smoke in this view from the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on Thursday morning, June 29, 2023. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)
EditorialDecaying trees are weathered to an eerie gray at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, June 14, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialA derelict building in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was abandoned the day after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Jan. 8, 2022. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialKent Allen checks McCoy, an Irish Sport Horse he recently brought to The Plains, Va., from Ireland, on March 30, 2021. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialKent Allen checks McCoy, an Irish Sport Horse he recently brought to The Plains, Va., from Ireland, on March 30, 2021. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialThe San Francisco skyline at 10:25 a.m., with the tops of skyscrapers lost in a mixture of smoke and fog in Oakland, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2020. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)