EditorialA platform encircles an old-growth redwood on the Revelation Trail in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in California, May 28, 2023. (Alexandra Hootnick/The New York Times)
EditorialRedwood Materials employee, John Caylor, dismantles discarded electric scooter batteries in Carson City, Nev., on March 2, 2022. (Nina Riggio/The New York Times)
EditorialA mourner places flowers at a makeshift memorial for the seven victims of a mass shooting that occurred the day prior, including four at a mushroom farm and three more nearby at an agricultural nursery, in Half Moon Bay, Calif. on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialBen Jealous, the civil rights activist, author and new executive director of the Sierra Club, in Pasadena, Md., Dec. 11, 2022. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times)
EditorialHeath Millim shovels discarded batteries while two other employees sort battery types at Redwood Materials in Carson City, Nev., March 2, 2022.. (Nina Riggio/The New York Times)
EditorialA redwood with a hidden speaker plays songs in Chochenyo, an indigenous language, at Cafe Ohlone, on the terrace at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, Aug. 24, 2022. (Nicholas Albrecht/The New York Times)
EditorialContrails in the sky above Reeves Canyon Road in Redwood Valley, Calif., near the site where Air Force Capt. Kevin Larson took his life, on April 7, 2022. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County, Calif., in November 2021. (Beth Coller/The New York Times)
EditorialPoll worker Richard Thompson during voting at the Redwood Playhouse in Garberville, Calif. on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (Alexandra Hootnick/The New York Times)
EditorialA slice of petrified dawn redwood from Oregon that has turned to stone after being buried for millions of years at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on April 30, 2021. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialRegistered nurse Yvonne Redwood, left, demonstrates how to safely put on, and take off protective gloves for students at the Sunnyside Community Program Home Care Health aide training program in Queens on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialAn interpretative sign still stands before a redwood that was burned and toppled in the recent wildfires, at Big Basin Redwoods State Park, southwest of San Jose, Nov. 10, 2020. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
EditorialAndres Pantoja in a garden he tends at the Boys and Girls Club in Redwood City, Calif., on Thursday, May 28, 2020. (James Tensuan/The New York Times)
EditorialDonald Kennedy, then commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, stands while speaking during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in 1977. (George Tames/The New York Times)