Environment

Blue skies, clear water, thriving wildlife—nature has regenerated thanks to global lockdowns. How can we make the effect last?

Political ambitions make China’s emissions growth inevitable even as the economy falters.

Thanks to the pandemic, demand is flattening faster than expected. In turn, the energy economy could transform sooner rather than later.

A conversation with Nina Lakhani, author of “Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet”

A celebrated new book shows U.S. capitalism doesn’t need to damage the planet. One problem: Its data is flawed.

The global transition to renewables could lead to human rights abuses and risks exacerbating inequalities between the West and the developing world.

In the East Asian democracies, nuclear energy is tied to an increasingly unpopular political and economic model.

The Earth Day jubilee is reason to celebrate the dramatic progress in cleaning up the environment—and draw the right lessons for the fight against climate change.

The case of fracking in Pennsylvania shows that if experts and fossil fuel industry leaders can cooperate, innovation is possible.

Markets might get jittery as bids by Biden, Sanders, and Warren to restrict fossil fuels move a bit closer to reality.

The outbreak may be the push needed to help prevent zoonotic diseases.

Can planting 10 million trees shore up the country’s borders and save its environment?

Hydropower may be the future of Canadian power, but it won’t bring the environmental benefits many proponents tout.

Chinese investment has led to a crush of infrastructure development in Ghana’s tropical forests—and not everyone is happy about it.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s drive to build a new canal to bypass the Bosphorus faces a formidable opponent: Istanbul mayor and likely presidential contender Ekrem Imamoglu.

Global warming could launch socialists to unprecedented power—and expose their movement’s deepest contradictions.

Even more than fracking, tapping oceanic methane hydrates could soon upend the global energy landscape.

China’s designs in space, a drought crisis in southern Africa, and other stories you may have missed during this year’s chaotic and nonstop news cycle.

Coal mining has been reopened in the Indian state of Meghalaya, but it isn’t clear that government protections will improve life for workers or help the environment.

The world is not doing nearly enough to fight climate change, but politicians are finally starting to pay attention.