List of Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S., China, India Race to Send Aid to Earthquake-Battered Nepal
As the death toll tops 3,700, countries around the world ramp up their ‘disaster diplomacy’ to save lives and bolster relations.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia’s Foremost Environmental Activist, in Exile: ‘Oil Is at Fault for Everything.’
Yevgenia Chirikova explains what’s gone wrong in Russia –- and what needs to change.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis, by the Numbers
Thousands of migrants have died making the dangerous crossing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Canada Could Cash In on California’s Drought
America's water-rich neighbor to the north is seeing green in the Golden State's dry rivers and dead crops.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 White House Announces Big Climate Change Goals Ahead of Paris Summit
The U.S. pledges to accelerate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the hopes of prodding other countries to reach a binding, global accord later this year.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Greener Pope
Francis is about to put climate change front and center on his papal agenda. But can his Holiness heal the political divide?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Climate change promises to make for some interesting national security problems
Climate change already is affecting national security in a variety of ways, panelists argued at a recent meeting at Georgetown University.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hydropower and the Challenge of Climate Change
Clean hydroelectric plants are meant to help the world fight global warming. But what happens when climate change clouds hydro's own future?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Gold, Oil, and Cigarettes: How an Obscure Trade Provision Protects the World’s Biggest Companies
Investor-state provisions in free trade agreements allow companies to arbitrate disputes with governments outside of local courts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Real Inconvenient Truth: Its Class Divide
Solving China's air and water pollution will require addressing the gap between rich urbanites and rural peasants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Fog of War Over India’s Polluted Skies
The United States is putting pressure on India to get serious about air pollution. But can New Delhi keep its factories humming and cut smog at the same time?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t Get Caught Up in the Air Pollution Hype
Sure, the haze and smog problems of the developing world are awful. But they have little to do with climate change.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s National Conversation on Pollution Has Finally Begun
An "Inconvenient Truth"-style documentary has hundreds of millions suddenly talking.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch China’s Silent Assassin in Action
Air pollution still kills thousands of urban-dwelling Chinese each year. Will it take a generation to change?
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001watertopimage The Waters Beneath
From floods to droughts to plastic-bottle wastelands, a world with -- and without -- water.
