List of Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Black Carbon’s Silver Lining in the Arctic
The Obama administration seeks a bright side for the environment after allowing oil drilling off the coast of Alaska.
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001 The Choking Point
May/June Visual Statement
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Calls Climate Denial ‘Dereliction of Duty’
The administration is emphasizing climate change’s security threat, from the melting Arctic to the boiling Middle East. It is an uphill slog.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Climate Change Could Devastate Many of China’s Major Cities
Bye-bye, Shanghai. Three maps show the immense damage rising sea levels could do.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Put Climate Change on the Agenda for India-Pakistan Relations
Why India and Pakistan need to work together on climate change before it's too late.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watching Your Country Collapse from Afar
Thousands of Nepali workers in Qatar struggle to find a way to go home -- and give back -- to a country in crisis.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Smog and the Social Contract
Rising incomes are pretty good at buying quiescence. But what causes people to say: “You can’t buy us off this cheaply”?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Shell Won’t be Producing in the Arctic Anytime Soon
Obama's decision to open Alaskan waters to oil drilling infuriated environmental groups, but low prices and high costs could push back operations for years.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rebuilding Nepal, from the Government Up
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc in Kathmandu has opened up an opportunity for the reform the country so desperately needs.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Defenders of Yarmouk
Just a few miles from downtown Damascus, pro-Assad Palestinian militias are fighting a grinding battle to the death against the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who Controls Nepal’s Helicopters?
The country has just a handful of private helicopters, which are crucial to earthquake rescue operations. But are foreign trekkers the only ones who’ve benefitted?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 War dog of the week: Off to Nepal
Here is Phayu, an urban search and rescue dog from Fairfax County, Virginia, heading to Nepal with her assistant, Jennifer Massey.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Earthquake Exposes Nepal’s Political Rot
The disaster could spur urgently needed democratization. But don't hold your breath.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Catastrophe We All Saw Coming
Nepalis have long waited anxiously for an earthquake known as The Big One. So why didn’t more of us prepare?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Can a Poor City Really Do to Prepare for an Earthquake?
Earthquakes present a unique problem for cities with a lack of resources.
