List of Energy and the Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Africa’s Energy Revolution Is Almost Here
Obama's Power Africa initiative just got a huge, bipartisan blessing from Congress. But can it overcome major bureaucratic and financing hurdles to give rural Africa the boost it needs?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What The Heck Are Cocos and Why Is Everyone Freaking Out About Them?
Worries about an obscure European investment instrument called cocos are spilling into the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nigeria Is Coming Apart at the Seams
At best, a revitalized Biafran secessionist movement will lead to mass bloodshed. At worst, it will trigger the country's unraveling.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Is What Happens When Good News Is Bad For U.S. Stocks
Here's why Wall Street is treating more jobs as bad news.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: How to Save 3 Billion Lives — By Just Adding Water
Thanks to BYU researchers, now a small, freeze-dried "kit" can produce vaccines in the world's poorest countries.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapped: The Crumbling Iraqi Dam That May Flood The Country
If the Mosul Dam goes, a lake of water will submerge cities from Mosul to Baghdad and kill hundreds of thousands. This map shows the potential devastation.
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A portrait of Sk. Aptauddin and he's destroyed house by sea water. Photograph from the series " The story of a dead horse". Photo of Jordi Pizarro © **Do not use this photograph with permission by photographer Jordi Pizarro. © all rights reserved. 2015 STORY: Ghoramara is the name of a Island, in bengalí language Ghoramara minds "a dead horse" long time ago there were Bengali tigers in the island. They say that one of them killed the horse of a British settler and that it is the discovery of the animal's dead body what gave the place its name. In only four decades Ghoramara has lost more than 75 percent of its territory. Erosion and sea rising due to climate change are responsible for such a loss. While expert look for scientific explanations, the island's five thousand inhabitants strive to protect what is left and get prepared for the worst. It is a race against time with little tools and expertise, done more with the heart than with preparedness in an effort to save their way of life in one of the world's ecosystems most vulnerable to climate change. A struggle that won't be probably mentioned in next December UN climate change summit, although recent reports warn that the island is likely to disappear within the next six to eight years. Waiting to Vanish
As their land disappears into the sea, villagers in the Bay of Bengal struggle to keep their livelihoods.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ethanol Is Holy in Iowa. So Why Is Cruz Going After It?
Corn ethanol is Iowa's golden goose. But days before the state's pivotal caucus, the senator is gambling that he can bash it — and still win the vote.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Davos Q&A: Cheap Oil ‘Another Straw on the Camel’s Back’ for Struggling Emerging Markets
PwC's chairman on why CEOs fear the Islamic State and how cheap oil will transform the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Davos Diary: Iran Insists It’s Open for Business. Will It Have Any Customers?
With nuclear sanctions lifted, Tehran wants the world to invest in its economy. It remains to be seen if it will have any takers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 America’s Looming Gas Revolution
After years of waiting, the United States is ready to start exporting natural gas — into a very different world from what it expected.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Sudan’s Next Civil War Is Starting
Just when a peace deal seemed within reach, President Salva Kiir is threatening to plunge the country back into bloody conflict.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Davos Diary: Jack Lew Urges Calm as Stocks Nosedive
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew offers an upbeat take on China and low oil prices.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t Blame China for Plunging Oil Prices
Like other markets buffeted by Chinese economic headwinds, the oil market is in free-fall. But China’s slowdown isn’t really doing much to dampen its thirst for oil.
