Environment

Russia's Olympic City

Russia is pushing ahead with its projects for the 2014 Winter Olympics. But not everyone is happy.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | APRIL 11, 2013

The Disease Next Door

How the world’s nastiest and least-known outbreaks are afflicting some of the world’s wealthiest countries.

BY PETER HOTEZ | MARCH 25, 2013

America Needs a Coast Guard That Can Fight

As the Arctic becomes an arena for conflict, the United States’ forgotten naval force will need to cowboy up.

BY JAMES HOLMES | MARCH 15, 2013

The Tangled Tale of Malaysia's Dirty Battleground State

How an ex-British prime minister’s sister-in-law, a headhunter’s grandson, dodgy PR firms, and a Malaysian kingpin are colliding in a fight over the future of democracy.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 13, 2013

North Korean Pastoral

The Hermit Kingdom as you've never seen it.

PHOTOS BY ROGER SHEPHERD | MARCH 11, 2013

Terror Management

Could a shared fear of climate change unite enemies?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH 4, 2013

The United Petrostates of America

Ordinary Americans are about to find out why they call it the “resource curse.”

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

White Russia

Pictures of Moscow's snowiest winter in a century.

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

It's not just Obama -- the entire world is ready to get serious about climate change. 

BY AMY MYERS JAFFE, DANIEL SPERLING | JANUARY 24, 2013

You Can't Change the Climate from Inside Washington

If Obama wants to make good on his inaugural promise, he’ll need to remember the lessons he learned as a community organizer.

BY THEDA SKOCPOL | JANUARY 24, 2013

A New U.S. Grand Strategy

Why walkable communities, sustainable economics, and multilateral diplomacy are the future of American power.

BY PATRICK DOHERTY | JANUARY 9, 2013

Indonesia: Stop Chopping, Start Learning

Indonesia has been coasting on its natural wealth for too long. Now it's time to start investing in the country's people.

BY JONATHAN PINCUS | JANUARY 9, 2013

Eve of Disaster

Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.

BY CHARLES EMMERSON | JANUARY 4, 2013

Cursed With Plenty

America is on the verge of an energy boom. But will abundant shale gas create more problems than it fixes? 

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Convergence of Civilizations

The oft-predicted "clash of civilizations" has not materialized. If anything, values are converging across cultures.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Climate Scofflaw

Is the United States really the impediment to a universal compact on global warming?

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 7, 2012

The People's Republic of California

Why isn’t the Golden State at the climate talks in Doha?

BY MICHAEL LEVI | DECEMBER 4, 2012

Apocalypse Mao

China's Xi Jinping faces a host of challenges: a slowing economy, stagnating political reform. But the country's black skies and red rivers ought to be his top priority.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The Corruption Pandemic

Why corruption is set to become one of the defining political issues of the 21st century.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Climate Course Correction

The world has spent two decades developing policies to combat global warming -- and we have little to show for it.

BY BJØRN LOMBORG | NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Adapt or Die

Still think climate change is a joke?

BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

One Storm Away

10 major world cities that could end up underwater.

BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | OCTOBER 31, 2012

We Are All Venetians Now

Are the world's major cities ready for the rising waters and freak storms of tomorrow?

BY FRANK JACOBS | OCTOBER 31, 2012

Open Seas

The Arctic is the Mediterranean of the 21st century.

BY JAMES HOLMES | OCTOBER 29, 2012

Playing God

With efforts to halt climate change on life support, scientists are looking at some radical options to save our planet. But could the cure be worse than the disease?

BY GERNOT WAGNER, MARTIN L. WEITZMAN | OCTOBER 24, 2012

Climate Deniers

When the economy is suffering, no one wants to hear about an impending environmental catastrophe.

BY KATE SHEPPARD | NOVEMBER 2012

Too Cool

Bjorn Lomborg missed the mark in his attacks on a new report about the costs of climate change.

BY MATTHEW MCKINNON | OCTOBER 4, 2012

Not So Hot

The new climate-change study getting all the headlines is deliberately misleading. Too bad so many in the media got fooled.

BY BJORN LOMBORG | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The City with a Short Fuse

How a shrewd politician defused ethnic tension and improved public services in one of Indonesia’s most dysfunctional cities.

BY RUSHDA MAJEED | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

A World Without Water

What happens when America's fields go dry?

AUGUST 23, 2012