Environment

Environmental crisis has become caught up in petty struggles.

Massively in debt to Beijing, countries in the region can’t stand up to China to protect their coasts.

The great powers have taken big steps to fight global warming. Now attention turns to the rest of the world.

Securing human rights in the supply chain of critical minerals is vital for a green future.

The technology to build new green economies is mostly produced in China. That’s bad for the United States.

There are big problems with the most important metric used to assess progress toward the U.N.'s environmental goals.

In a little-noticed speech this week, China permanently changed the global fight against climate change.

The choice is simple: accept devastating wildfires, extreme weather, species loss, and disease outbreaks or secure a sustainable future at a fraction of the cost.

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?