EditorialAlessandro Rotta Loria, an assistant professor at Northwestern University and the lead researcher of an underground heat study, walks through a boiler room in the basement of the Union League Club in Chicago, on May 23, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialAndriy Halavin, the priest at All Saints Church, christens 3-month-old Uliana in the building’s basement, in Bucha, Ukraine, June 24, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)