List of Environment articles
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A rescuer checks a partly damaged building in Turkey. The Quake That Exposed Erdogan’s Fault Lines
Last week’s earthquake killed tens of thousands of people, made many more individuals homeless, and exposed the shoddy underpinnings of the AKP economic miracle.
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People stand in front of a huge mound of rubble. How Corruption and Misrule Made Turkey’s Earthquake Deadlier
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hollowed out state institutions, placed loyalists in key positions, and enriched his cronies—paving the way for this tragedy.
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Protesters sit above the Garzweiler II open cast lignite coal mine near the settlement of Luetzerath on January 14, 2023 near Erkelenz, Germany. Other nearby settlements that were also slated for demolition will now be spared, though critics point out that Germany has sufficient energy production capacity and does not need the coal lying beneath Luetzerath. Europe’s Climate Movement Is Radicalizing in Real Time
Compromises are condemning the continent’s climate goals to failure—and eliciting blowback.
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Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in the town of Jableh in Syria's northwestern province of Latakia following an earthquake, on February 7, 2023. Syria’s Earthquake Victims Are Trapped by Assad
Russia left the war-torn region with only a single border crossing—and it’s no longer open for aid.
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A deforested area of the Amazonia rainforest is pictured in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Sept. 15, 2021. Who Shapes Environmental Policy Worldwide?
In the Amazon and elsewhere, nature’s last best hope is a hodgepodge of forces.
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An employee of Deutsche ReGas watches a tugboat pull a floating storage and regasification unit into a new import terminal for natural gas in Lubmin, Germany, on Dec. 15, 2022. Europe’s Hunger for Gas Leaves Poor Countries High and Dry
Rich countries are pursuing energy security at the rest of the world’s expense.
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German Economy Minister and Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, Norway's Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland and Norway's Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre talk with journalists during a visit to the hydrogen company NEL on Herøya, Norway, on Jan. 6, 2023. Norway Is Planning to Profit From Climate Change
The oil-rich Nordic country is laying the groundwork to become a renewable energy superpower.
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Protestor standing in front of a river, holding a sign against the Amazon River Club Development. Amazon’s New Africa HQ Pits Indigenous South Africans Against Each Other
The planned development will bring jobs, but raises questions about who speaks for Khoi and San peoples, what is sacred, and how to commemorate injustice.
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Physicist Vaughn Draggoo inspects a huge target chamber at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California in October 2001. Could Fusion Overcome Public Opposition to Nuclear Power?
Recent progress might lead to a nuclear energy source that produces no high-level radioactive waste and presents fewer proliferation concerns.
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An illustration shows US President Joe Biden surrounded by the foreign-policy issues he has faced in his first two years in office. Biden’s Midterm Report Card
We asked 20 experts to grade the administration’s foreign policy after two years in office.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Valley Generating Station in Sun Valley, California, on Dec. 11, 2008. Is America’s Climate Policy Helping—or Hurting—the World?
A climate envoy who has advised four U.S. presidents responds to European and Asian complaints over the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Video grabs of FP Live conversations 5 Memorable Conversations in 2022
From Fiona Hill on Putin to NATO’s leader on the war in Ukraine, here are the interviews that continue to resonate with subscribers.
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Damage is seen in Turkey’s Mugla province. Did This Year Move the Needle on Climate Change?
Climate action was needed more than ever in 2022. Here’s what changed—and what didn’t.
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A man walks through a relief camp for people displaced by the floods in Keamari, Pakistan. Pakistan’s Climate Migrants Face Tough Odds
People displaced by climate disasters remain vulnerable, as this year’s floods show.
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Electricity workers check solar panels in China. How the World Learned to Love Fossil Fuels Again
In 2022, happy visions of a green future gave way to existential worries about energy.
