List of Energy and the Environment articles
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks with Lloyd Austin. Ukraine’s President Finally Has His White House Meeting
But Volodymyr Zelensky is irked with the Biden administration over its acquiescence in Russia’s big pipeline.
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A wildfire which engulfing a Mediterranean resort region on Turkey's southern coast near the town of Manavgat, on July 30, 2021. The Middle East Is Becoming Literally Uninhabitable
One of the regions hardest hit by climate change is also one least equipped to deal with it.
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Forest fire in Greece Conspiracy Theories Rise From the Ashes of Greece’s Fires
The government can claim real successes amid the disaster, but rumors are running wild.
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A soldier stands over debris in Haiti. Haiti’s Convenient Disaster
Last weekend’s earthquake was a catastrophe. But for the country’s political class, it came at exactly the right time.
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Demonstrators take part in a climate march in Bonn, Germany. The End of Coal Is Coming Sooner Than You Think
Despair elides the progress made over the last two decades.
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U.S. climate envoy John Kerry speaks in Russia. John Kerry Wants the ‘Greatest Economic Transformation Since the Industrial Revolution’
But others question the “market-based” approach of Biden’s chief climate envoy.
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The sun rises over Lindsey oil refinery. Why The World’s Governments Should Pay Polluters
Britain’s decision to compensate slaveholders was unjust, unpalatable—and effective.
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Fires at sunset in the agriculture town of Ruropolis, in northern Brazil, on Sept. 6, 2019. The Realist Guide to Solving Climate Change
Put aside all your idealistic fantasies about the world’s biggest crisis, and here’s what’s left.
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Serbian firefighters use a water hose to extinguish the burning blaze of a forest fire in the Greek village Glatsona on Evia (Euboea) island on Aug. 9. Four Key Takeaways From the IPCC Climate Report
The future is bleak—unless policymakers take aggressive actions now to cut global emissions.
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un-climate-tooze-social Present at the Creation of a Climate Alliance—or Climate Conflict
The United States and Europe are on the brink of decisions that could save the planet—or tear apart the West.
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National Guard helicopters spray water as a wildfire approaches in California. Climate Change Disaster Response Is the Military’s New Forever War
Wildfires in drought-stricken American West suck in military resources, in a sign of the new normal.
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The Dead Sea shoreline is receding. Can Enemies Become Allies in the Fight Against Climate Change?
There are many incentives for cross-border military cooperation—even among adversaries—as climate change worsens.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Joe Biden Ukraine Won’t Stop Fighting the Nord Stream Deal
Kyiv feels let down by supposed allies in Berlin and Washington.
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Electric energy-generating wind turbines are on a wind farm. Energy Independence Doesn’t Mean What It Used To
And here’s why that’s a national security issue.
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Merkel and Biden at the White House Biden’s Surrender to Merkel on Nord Stream 2
His support for the pipeline abandoned a bipartisan consensus, got nothing in return, and made the world less secure.