List of Energy and the Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In the Battle for His Legacy, Obama Opens a New Arctic Front On Trump
Obama’s surprise -- and potentially sticky ban -- on offshore drilling is the latest midnight regulation in the land of the midnight sun.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All Rex Tillerson Cares About Is Energy
But does that mean he's going to gut America’s $50 billion foreign aid budget?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Lesson for Rick Perry: The Department of Energy Doesn’t Produce Much Energy
A former governor of Texas would seem to be a natural choice for secretary of energy. Yet Perry faces a paradox.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: How to Live Like Matt Damon in ‘The Martian’
A super-powered micro-animal, a hacker-proof grid, and more.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s Too Soon to Judge Rex Tillerson
Tillerson is not the first nominee for secretary of state whose company's close ties with a foreign country cast a cloud of suspicion.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Climate Change Is Mauling the Arctic Worse Than We Even Thought
NOAA’s Arctic Report Card documents melting sea ice and a ticking time bomb of billions of tons of carbon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rick Perry Tapped to Run U.S. Energy Department He Doesn’t Believe Should Exist
The former Texas governor and Dancing With the Stars contestant waltzes his way into the Trump cabinet.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trump Expected to Tap Oil Chief As Secretary of State
ExxonMobil's CEO draws scorn from experts and lawmakers as Trump continues to build his cabinet of moguls and generals.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch Every Recorded Earthquake Around the World in the Last 15 Years (in Under 4 Minutes)
Every one of the world’s recorded earthquakes over the last 15 years turned into one terrifying animation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Latest Wikileaks Dump Sheds New Light on Erdogan’s Power In Turkey
From indirect involvement with ISIS’s oil trade to free press crackdowns, the latest Wikileaks dump isn’t very flattering to Erdogan or his family.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Is Outsourcing Its Pollution
Beijing's diplomacy is increasingly green, but its international trade is getting ever more coal-black.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trump Reaches Out to Central Asia, Looking For a Back Door to Russia
President-elect Donald Trump made his first overture to former Soviet Central Asia and may looking for ways to mend ties with Moscow.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Amid Oil Glut, OPEC Finally Agrees to Curb Crude Production
Oil prices surged after OPEC announced a new production cut. But will it be enough to help the group escape the bottom of the barrel?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pope to Trump, World Leaders: Don’t Abandon the Paris Climate Change Pact
Pope Francis urged world leaders to tackle climate change in an address on Monday. But his message evidently didn’t reach Trump Tower.