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.
Laurie Zoloth, the president of the American Academy of Religion, has proposed that a future convention be called off, and the resources directed elsewhere.
China’s leaders have self-interested reasons to combat pollution, as their recent pledge suggests. India’s leaders may have the same reasons.
A new documentary by Marilyn and Hal Weiner crosses the political divide to put the issue of climate change back in everyday conversations.
Advocates say doing more with less power may be an even more critical weapon in the fight against climate change than renewable technologies.
A computer model developed in Germany that simulates energy supply and demand shows that a push for renewable power sources can be economically viable.
Li Hejun, chairman of the Chinese renewable energy company Hanergy Holding Group, argues that solar energy will lead a third industrial revolution.
Experts question whether the plans that the Continent has sketched out to achieve a 40 percent cut are strong enough to meet its goal.
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.
The agency’s move comes in response to a glut in the domestic oil market and significant public comment about the proposed targets.
Developing countries are continuing to build large infrastructure projects despite concerns about their environmental impact and the fact they are displacing people.
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.
After an unusual land deal, a giant spill and a tanker-train explosion, anxiety began to ripple across the North Dakota prairie.
North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances.
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast.
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.
The small German island of Heligoland, a popular tourist destination, is undergoing dramatic change as the wind industry takes over.
Domestication happened to humans, too. We’ve evolved a lot like pets.