List of Energy and the Environment articles
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Has the U.S. Lost All Credibility on the International Stage?
As Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement, rails on Iran, and does a 180° on China, America’s allies are reeling and looking elsewhere for leadership.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 01: U.S. President Donald Trump announces his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement in the Rose Garden at the White House June 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump pledged on the campaign trail to withdraw from the accord, which former President Barack Obama and the leaders of 194 other countries signed in 2015. The agreement is intended to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit global warming to a manageable level. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Why Abandoning Paris Is a Disaster for America
The Obama administration’s brain trust on how Trump’s rejection of the global climate change agreement is a monumental blunder.
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GettyImages-691259482 Trump Pulls Out of the Paris Climate Agreement
The president argues that the voluntary deal puts the United States at an economic disadvantage.
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GettyImages-688927784 Watch: Trump’s Decision on the Paris Climate Accords
Candidate Trump vowed to pull out of the voluntary, global pact -- but even administration insiders are unsure just what he’ll do.
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GettyImages-689764104 Reports: Trump To Pull Out of Paris Climate Agreement
A decision to exit would leave the U.S. isolated globally.
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McCarthy If Trump Dumps the Paris Accord, China Will Rule the Energy Future
The United States isn’t just forfeiting its environmental leadership. It’s shipping jobs and influence to Beijing.
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A woman and baby wearing face masks walk in the Forbidden City during heavy pollution in Beijing on February 28, 2013. Beijing residents were urged to stay indoors as pollution levels soared before a sandstorm brought further misery to China's capital. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) As Environmental Catastrophe Looms, Is it Ethical to Have Children?
Two philosophers discuss the morality of family planning in the age of climate change.
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UNSPECIFIED : Jane Goodall, English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist, with a chimpanzee in her arms, c. 1995 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images) Thoughts from Jane Goodall on How to Save the Planet
What chimpanzees and the trees of Tanzania can teach us about battling the effects of climate change.
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Hayhoe_top Yeah, the Weather Has Been Weird
People already care about climate change – the trick is getting them to realize it.
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TTTC_mj17 The Things They Carried: The Inuit Whale Hunter
The tools and techniques of the indigenous beluga hunt.
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Murphy_top Forget Purple Mountains’ Majesty
With corporate interests and climate change threatening America’s national parks, international cooperation and entrepreneurial competition might be the only things that keep them safe.
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Outside Geerisa, Somalia: An armed policeman stands beside a riverbank swelled from a flash flood the night before that left several people dead. As Somalia gets hotter and drier, it is also more susceptible to deadly flash floods when eventual rain hits the parched earth. To be Somali used to mean to roam the land with your camels and others herds, surviving on their milk and meat and making home wherever the rains fell. Three out of four Somalis depend on the land to survive, either by herding or farming. Yet the rains are becoming less frequent and drought the norm. Land is degraded out of desperation, and people’s historic resilience is broken down. As access to water and pasture shrink, so do people’s options. The result is a growing wave of violence that swells with each short rain, dry well and failed crop. Men with guns are as common here as dusty roads, and as the fragile ties linking communities together break down the choice becomes clear: fight or die. (Photo by Nichole Sobecki) The Key to Saving Somalia is Gathering Dust in the British Countryside
What if there were a blueprint for climate adaptation that could end a civil war? An English scientist spent his life developing one—then he vanished without a trace.
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ChinaDeniers_SW_V1 The Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in China
From Western plot to party line, how China embraced climate science to become a green-energy powerhouse.
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UN Secretary General, António Guterres attends the London Somalia Conference at Lancaster House in London on May 11, 2017. International leaders are gathering in London on Thursday to thrash out agreements with Somalia aimed at stabilising the country under its new political leadership. The one-day conference is looking to strike a new compact that will accelerate progress on security, development and the troubled east African country's economy by 2020. / AFP PHOTO / JACK HILL (Photo credit should read JACK HILL/AFP/Getty Images) U.N. Chief Takes Veiled Swipe At Trump On Climate Abdication: ‘Our World Is A Mess.’
Antonio Guterres delivers last gasp appeal to a Trump administration leaning toward quitting Paris.
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g7 Trump Goes to Sicily: Day One of the G-7
On trade, climate change, and Russia, world leaders disagree.
