List of Energy and the Environment articles
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MarApr2016_Aperture_1 Rock Bottom
Despite a sinking summit, 15,000 laborers continue to claw at the mines in a Bolivian mountain.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Climate Change Is Undeniable. So Why Is the GOP Still Denying It?
Florida could be underwater in a few decades. Can Republicans win the battleground state if they refuse to heed environmental warnings?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With Power Plants Getting Hacked, Senate Looks For Ways To Keep The Lights On
A new measure is designed to make it harder for cyber attackers to take down the nation's electrical grid, but will it do more harm than good?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Volkswagen’s American Chief Michael Horn Falls on His Sword
Michael Horn, head of Volkswagen America, is suddenly out of a job.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 VW’s Labor Chief: U.S. Fines For Emissions Cheat Could Cost U.S. Jobs
A top Volkswagen official says U.S. fines for emissions cheat could lead to U.S. job losses.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pakistan’s Big Threat Isn’t Terrorism—It’s Climate Change
To Pakistan, terrorists seem a more formidable enemy than rising temperatures and sea levels. But what happens when climate change upends Karachi, the country's economic backbone?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Was This Prominent Honduran Activist Murdered in Her Own Home?
Honduran activist Berta Cáceres feared for her life before she was shot dead.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Models Dressed in Trash Save Dakar?
2015 Global Thinker Fabrice Monteiro discusses how plastic-bag couture can teach a generation to respect its environment.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Mysterious Pipeline Closure Is Bankrupting Iraqi Kurds
The export pipeline connecting Kurdish oil fields to Turkey has been offline for two weeks, costing Erbil at least $200 million.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Warns of ‘Catastrophic Failure’ of Iraq’s Mosul Dam
After years of quiet warnings that the “world’s most dangerous dam” is in danger of collapse, American officials lay out a terrifying picture of the devastation Iraq could suffer.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Limits of Evo Morales’s Identity Politics
Not all of Bolivia’s indigenous people are happy with the country’s first indigenous president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 America’s Natural Gas Exports Won’t Be Enough to Blunt Putin’s Energy Weapon
The United States is shipping gas overseas for the first time in decades, but private companies sell to the highest bidder — and not just to the countries Washington might want for geopolitical reasons.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Irrational Exuberance About the Iranian Economy
The nuclear deal was supposed to spark a new era of prosperity for Iranians. But Iranian politics — and American politics — still stand in the way.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saudi Oil Minister: Production Cut ‘is Not Going to Happen’
Cheap oil will last a while longer, as Saudi Arabia makes clear it’s not going to take it on the chin to save beleaguered U.S. producers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Snap Poll: Who Will Make the Best Foreign Policy President?
From climate change to the Islamic State, from Russia to China, we asked scholars who they want tackling America's biggest problems.
