The Upshot
The Next Big Climate Question: Will India Follow China?
By MICHAEL GREENSTONE
China’s leaders have self-interested reasons to combat pollution, as their recent pledge suggests. India’s leaders may have the same reasons.
Seth Joel
Laurie Zoloth of Northwestern, president of the American Academy of Religion.
Laurie Zoloth, the president of the American Academy of Religion, has proposed that a future convention be called off, and the resources directed elsewhere.
Adjusting the Tune on Climate Change
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
A new documentary by Marilyn and Hal Weiner crosses the political divide to put the issue of climate change back in everyday conversations.
Energy Efficiency May Be the Key to Saving Trillions
By BETH GARDINER
Advocates say doing more with less power may be an even more critical weapon in the fight against climate change than renewable technologies.
Plan Outlines Low-Carbon Future for Germany
By DIANA S. POWERS
A computer model developed in Germany that simulates energy supply and demand shows that a push for renewable power sources can be economically viable.
Solar as Industrial Revolution
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP
Li Hejun, chairman of the Chinese renewable energy company Hanergy Holding Group, argues that solar energy will lead a third industrial revolution.
Testing the Limits of European Ambitions on Emissions
By BETH GARDINER
Experts question whether the plans that the Continent has sketched out to achieve a 40 percent cut are strong enough to meet its goal.
Three Years After Fire, a New Culprit Threatens a Texas Park’s Rebirth
By CHRISTINE AYALA
As shrubs and seedlings take hold in scorched Bastrop State Park, whitetail deer are thriving, and concerning officials enough so that they have decided to allow hunting.
E.P.A. Postpones Setting Standards for Biofuel Blends
By DIANE CARDWELL
The agency’s move comes in response to a glut in the domestic oil market and significant public comment about the proposed targets.
Special Report: Business of Green
A Dam Revival, Despite Risks
By ERICA GIES
Developing countries are continuing to build large infrastructure projects despite concerns about their environmental impact and the fact they are displacing people.
It’s a Light Green Lifestyle
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
Jen Boulden was a serial start-up entrepreneur before founding Ideal Bite, a green-lifestyle email subscription service sold four years later to Disney. She now runs JenB TV.
Multimedia
Where Oil and Politics Mix
By DEBORAH SONTAG
After an unusual land deal, a giant spill and a tanker-train explosion, anxiety began to ripple across the North Dakota prairie.
The Downside of the Boom
By DEBORAH SONTAG and ROBERT GEBELOFF
North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances.
The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever
By NATHANIEL RICH
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast.
Germany’s Grass-Roots Energy Revolution
A visit to the Aller-Leine-Tal, one of many energy cooperatives that have contributed to the success so far of Germany’s Energiewende, or energy transition.
Germany’s Offshore Wind Push
The small German island of Heligoland, a popular tourist destination, is undergoing dramatic change as the wind industry takes over.
Op-Ed Contributor
Our Cats, Ourselves
By RAZIB KHAN
Domestication happened to humans, too. We’ve evolved a lot like pets.
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