Environment

Urban centers are taking international relations into their own hands.

Teenagers around the world are protesting in unprecedented numbers—and making governments nervous.

Thirty percent of global emissions come from countries led by populist nationalist leaders. Current climate policy approaches are ill-suited for these regimes. Here’s an alternative.

A political newcomer is poised to become president by standing up for liberal democratic values—and seeking to halt the spread of right-wing populism across Central and Eastern Europe.

The Islamic Republic’s corruption is draining the country of its most precious resource: water.

Rather than rushing to punish Hezbollah, the United States should be shoring up the country’s new government to avoid state collapse.

Tokyo’s pullout from international treaties may actually help save whales.

Efforts to combat climate change should be pragmatic above all else.

Global warming will produce national extinctions and international insurgencies—and change everything you think you know about foreign policy.

Seven men were convicted in the 2016 killing of environmental activist Berta Cáceres, but real accountability—and remedies for the corruption and insecurity plaguing Honduras—lag far behind.

China's future isn't just skyscrapers, but also soil.

Advances in solar and wind power mean that hydropower is no longer the only renewable game in town—and that’s good news for the world’s rivers.

Netanyahu may be changing his mind about war. If he does, it will be thanks to an environmental and health disaster that threatens to cross the border.

The Brazilian president-elect can’t pursue his environmental policies on his own. After this weekend’s state elections, he’ll have the backing he needs.

Along with their latest dire predictions, the world’s leading climate scientists offered a new path forward—but will anyone take it?

New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment—but it’s hard to do both.

Nicolas Hulot is a combination of Donald Trump and Al Gore—and the French president will regret ever putting him in his Cabinet.

Indigenous people, not environmentalists, are the key to protecting the world’s most precious ecosystems.

The war against foreign-funded NGOs — from India to Israel — is harming democratic governance, not enhancing it.

Australia’s scientists are working against time and climate change politics to save their beloved coral reef.