Last week, the big news was that the Obama administration had unveiled a new Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon emissions from United States power plants 30 percent by 2030.

But E.P.A. legislation aside, it has already been a banner year for climate news. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report confirmed once again that human-caused global warming is proceeding rapidly. Last month, scientists reported the irreversible disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and, closer to home, the National Climate Assessment asserted that the United States is already falling victim to severe, global warming-related droughts.

In light of this, a new series from The New York Times called The Big Fix will examine potential solutions to climate change. In the first installment, Justin Gillis examines a worldwide experiment that may create economic incentives for companies to invest in emission-control projects. One such project takes Wisconsin dairy cows and extracts power from their excrement, which is paid for by California. See how that works in this slideshow.

For latecomers to the global warming discussion, a new digital Flipboard called Temperature Rising showcases some of the Times’s best climate coverage to date. Once you’re all caught up, the Opinion section’s DotEarth blog offers continuous, breaking climate news and occasional analyses — did you know, for example, that Americans take the term “global warming” far more seriously than “climate change”?