List of Energy and the Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Can a Poor City Really Do to Prepare for an Earthquake?
Earthquakes present a unique problem for cities with a lack of resources.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nepal’s Next Disaster
Kathmandu has become a city of makeshift shelters and crowded campsites — and it's setting the stage for a sanitation catastrophe that could kill thousands more.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S., China, India Race to Send Aid to Earthquake-Battered Nepal
As the death toll tops 3,700, countries around the world ramp up their ‘disaster diplomacy’ to save lives and bolster relations.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia’s Foremost Environmental Activist, in Exile: ‘Oil Is at Fault for Everything.’
Yevgenia Chirikova explains what’s gone wrong in Russia –- and what needs to change.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 EU to Gazprom: Play by the Rules
Brussels accuses Russia’s energy giant of breaching antitrust rules, potentially weakening one of the Kremlin's main foreign-policy weapons.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe Throws Down the Gauntlet at Gazprom
Antitrust charges against the Russian energy giant would add another twist to prickly relations between Brussels and Moscow.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Mind and Milieu of John Steinbruner
Remembering a generous mentor, a prodigious scholar, and a bold thinker who contemplated the bad decisions that could get us all killed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis, by the Numbers
Thousands of migrants have died making the dangerous crossing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Invests Billions in Its ‘All-Weather Friendship’ With Pakistan
New energy and infrastructure deals with Islamabad are starting to flesh out both pillars of Beijing’s Silk Road plans. That may not be a bad thing after all.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Kickback That Killed Brazil
Itaboraí was once a petro-boomtown; it’s now an empty shell. How the Petrobras mega-scandal is destroying ordinary lives and bringing down the rich and powerful.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The U.S. Needs to End Its Ban on Crude Oil Exports
We can help our allies and undermine our adversaries if we get rid of this antiquated policy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Gas Market Following in Oil’s Footsteps With Shell, BG Megamerger
The biggest energy deal in a decade is a $70 billion bet that the world is indeed entering the "Age of Gas."
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pot of Gold at the End of the Iranian Rainbow
Companies far and wide are drooling over the prospect of an opening to Iran. But doubts over the nuclear deal and the future of sanctions still dampen Tehran’s hopes for an early rehabilitation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Japan Bets on Nuclear, and Coal, for Future Power
Four years after Fukushima, Tokyo is angling to get nuclear reactors back online. But dirty old coal will be doing the real heavy lifting.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Canada Could Cash In on California’s Drought
America's water-rich neighbor to the north is seeing green in the Golden State's dry rivers and dead crops.
