List of Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 El Khadra Still Can’t Breathe
This devastated community has been calling for help for years. Even in the new Tunisia, no one’s listening.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rare-Earth Market
By monopolizing the mining of rare-earth metals, China could dictate the future of high-tech.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 From Cocaine Cowboys to Narco-Ranchers
As the drug trade takes over Central America, drug barons have found an increasingly reliable option for laundering their cash: cows.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 White House Issues Strict Rules for Arctic Drilling
New regulations could be a disincentive for companies to look for oil in the Arctic.
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Kushner_image1-FULL copy1 The Coldest Case
Eugene Mallove gave up everything to pursue the holy grail of nuclear energy. Did it cost him his life?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: When Do African Problems Need African Solutions?
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and Ory Okolloh discuss the continent's brain drain and debate the best ways to keep talent at home.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapped: Killings of Environmental Defenders Surged in 2015
Almost 40 percent of those killed were indigenous people like Berta Cáceres.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 India, One of the World’s Biggest Polluters, Will Join Climate Change Accord
New Delhi said it will formally join the Paris climate agreement this year, a potentially big step to curbing harmful global temperature increases.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Actually Care About Saving Leopards
A high-profile, Putin-backed campaign to protect the habitat of Persian leopards has been quietly abandoned, clearing the way for the country’s richest man to expand his ski resort.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Democracy Is the Answer to Climate Change
Contrary to popular belief, elected leaders are better equipped to address the problem than their autocratic rivals.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Life After the Mud
In Indonesia, the world’s largest mud volcano has been erupting continuously for 10 years. A wealthy family's gas company may be to blame. But it’s the poor who’ve paid the price.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Green Movement and its Inconvenient Truths
2015 Global Thinker Marjan Minnesma and Gasland director Josh Fox debate the best—and perhaps only—way to spurn action on climate change: Terrify people.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat Headache Just Got Worse
The world's largest sovereign wealth fund is now targeting the company for its emissions cheat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hajj Closed to Iranians After Year of Discord
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia are set to keep tens of thousands from the anual pilgrimage.