List of Environment articles
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U.S. President Joe Biden listens to the speakers during the World Leaders' Summit "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" session on day three of COP26 on Nov. 2, in Glasgow, Scotland. Will COP26 Solve Anything?
Climate apocalypse still looms while world leaders haggle over haggis in Glasgow.
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Chinese street vendors and customers gather at a local market. China’s Energy Conundrum
Chinese President Xi Jinping has short-term goals and long-term ambitions.
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People walk in the illuminated streets in a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where electricity is a rarity, on July 17, 2016. Rich Countries’ Climate Policies Are Colonialism in Green
At COP26, developed-world governments are working to keep the global south poor.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Democratic Republic of the Congo President Félix Tshisekedi, and U.S. President Joe Biden stand before speaking at the United Nations climate summit. Essential Climate Reads for COP26
Some of FP’s best arguments on ways forward for the world.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping virtually addresses the United Nations General Assembly A Green Deal at COP26 Can’t Be a Green Light for China
The idea that appeasing Beijing can save the planet is a fantasy.
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A man and woman look at a poster for the movie 2012. Hollywood Needs to Show Us Life Beyond Climate Disaster
We need a new model of civilization. Hollywood can help us envision it.
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A Zimbabwean boy does his homework by candlelight in Harare, Zimbabwe, on June 26, 2019. The Developing World Needs Energy—and Lots of It
At COP26, leaders must find ways to allow much greater economic growth across large parts of the world.
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U.S. House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney Big Oil Gets Grilled by Congress Over Climate Disinformation
Major oil executives insisted that they haven’t misled the public about the link between fossil fuels and climate change.
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U.S. President Joe Biden disembarks from Air Force One in Geneva prior to a U.S.-Russian summit on June 15. No More Trans-Atlantic Love Fest as Biden Heads to Europe
Europe and the United States were never going to be the reunited couple in a geopolitical rom-com.
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A situation room monitors traffic camera data How the Data Revolution Will Help the World Fight Climate Change
Cities are the proving ground for potent new tools to address the crisis.
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Young environmental activists hold protest signs up in front of comedians dressed as Australian Labor leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Canberra, Australia, on May 5, 2019. The Australian Climate Change Paradox, Unpacked
Australia is uniquely vulnerable in a warming world. So why have successive governments refused to act?
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A firefighter sprays water on a propane tank as a home burns due to the Dixie fire in Plumas County, California, on July 24. Humanity’s Unhappy Experiment
Understanding how the climate crisis unfolded can help us reverse course.
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The cooling tower at the Muelheim-Kaerlich nuclear power plant collapses during a controlled demolition near Koblenz, Germany. In Global Energy Crisis, Anti-Nuclear Chickens Come Home to Roost
In virtually every country that has closed nuclear plants, clean electricity has been replaced with dirty power.
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Woman working in Indian coal mine Why India Can’t Wean Itself Off Coal
Those who see India as a climate boogeyman are holding it to a standard they would never apply to themselves.
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Employees work on a high-voltage transmission tower in China. The Real Reasons Behind China’s Energy Crisis
Cheap pricing and too much coal are leaving Chinese in the dark.
