List of Environment articles
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Firefighters set a backfire to protect homes in California Indian and Californian Politics Are Both Playing With Fire
Environmental crisis has become caught up in petty struggles.
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Wind turbines at a wind farm in Colorado City, Texas on Jan. 21, 2016. What Are Biden’s Climate Options if the Senate Stays Republican?
A split government would make it harder, but there are many things a president can do.
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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands before a dinner with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro What Will the U.S. Election Mean for Brazil’s Diplomacy?
China’s growing influence in Latin America and climate change will both continue to shape the future of the bilateral relationship.
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Residents of the Galápagos Islands hold a demonstration outside the court where the crew of a Chinese-flagged ship confiscated by the Ecuadorian Navy is attending a hearing, on Aug. 25, 2017. China’s Hunger for Seafood Is Now Latin America’s Problem
Massively in debt to Beijing, countries in the region can’t stand up to China to protect their coasts.
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A Turkana woman carries firewood near Lokitaung in northern Kenya, where a drought ravaged the livestock population, on March 21, 2017. In Northern Kenya, the Climate Crisis Shifts Gender Roles
Drought has disrupted the traditional way of life for pastoralists, pushing many women into business for the first time.
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india_clean_energy-pollution-debunker-mark-harris-illustration-sm Surprise! India Is Leaping Ahead in Clean Energy
Long considered climate policy’s problem case, India is exceeding targets and breaking records thanks to fast-advancing technology.
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A man walks along a street near India Gate amid heavily polluted conditions in New Delhi on Dec. 6, 2019. Welcome to the Final Battle for the Climate
The great powers have taken big steps to fight global warming. Now attention turns to the rest of the world.
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Abandoned machinery in Pulacayo, a former mining center in Bolivia Clean Energy Can’t Have Dirty Roots
Securing human rights in the supply chain of critical minerals is vital for a green future.
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Arctic Competition Power Map Arctic Competition – Part One
In Part I of FP Analytics’ Arctic Competition Power Map, we visualize how climate change is physically transforming the Arctic, lay out the scale of potential resources that will be made available, and detail the positions and interests of major players in the region.
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climate-reparations-nicolas-ortega-foreign-policy The Case for Climate Reparations
The world’s poorest will bear the worst consequences of the climate crisis. Redirecting international resources to address entrenched inequalities provides a way out.
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Paramilitary police march near the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, China. COVID-19 Might Not Change the World
Pandemics are not always transformative events. While some worrying preexisting trends could accelerate, it’s incorrect to assume that the coronavirus will end globalization, kill liberal democracy, or enhance China’s soft power.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about climate change at the Delaware Museum of Natural History on Sept. 14. The Democrats Have Quietly Given Up Their Old Myths About Climate Change
And that might be a good thing for the environment.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia meet at the Al-Yamamah Royal Palace in Riyadh on Oct. 14, 2019. Everything You Think About the Geopolitics of Climate Change Is Wrong
The transition to a zero-carbon world will shift power in very unexpected ways.
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Chinese workers ride a boat through a large floating solar farm project in Anhui province on June 13, 2017. Beijing Is Winning the Clean Energy Race
The technology to build new green economies is mostly produced in China. That’s bad for the United States.
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Art for the Global Goals campaign at Liu Bolin Studio in Beijing on Aug. 28, 2015. The World’s Sustainable Development Goals Aren’t Sustainable
There are big problems with the most important metric used to assess progress toward the U.N.'s environmental goals.
