Environment
Nuclear Winner
Environmentalist icon turned nuclear-power booster Stewart Brand tells Foreign Policy why, even after the Fukushima disaster, he thinks nuclear is the energy of the future.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 22, 2011
Meltdowns and Misinformation
What do we actually know about Japan's nuclear crisis?
BY JOSEPH CIRINCIONE | MARCH 18, 2011
Atomic Dogs
Fukushima wasn't the only nuclear accident waiting to happen. From Bulgaria to New York, here are five other nuclear power plants to keep an eye on.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 17, 2011
Dam Nation
When Beijing counts hydropower as "green energy," it's doing the environment -- and its economy -- no favor.
BY PETER BOSSHARD | MARCH 8, 2011
China's Big Dam Problem
Chinese rulers have always tried to control their country's massive rivers. But will they be overwhelmed by the environmental backlash?
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | MARCH 8, 2011
FP Book Club: Charles Kenny's Getting Better
An FP discussion on contributing editor Charles Kenny's new book: Are we winning the global war on human suffering?
MARCH 7, 2011
This Week at War: Lost in Space
Can the Pentagon afford to protect its orbital interests?
BY ROBERT HADDICK | FEBRUARY 11, 2011
I Was a Rare Earths Day Trader
How a naval confrontation in the South China Sea created a global investment bubble -- and cost me half my life savings.
BY JASON MIKLIAN | JANUARY 21, 2011
The Serpent King
How a notorious Malaysian wildlife smuggler was brought to justice -- and what it tells us about stopping the world's most profitable black market.
BY BRYAN CHRISTY | DECEMBER 28, 2010
Thank God It's Over
Before we say say goodbye to 2010, a look back at the year's achievements and disasters, natural and otherwise.
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Next Christmas in Chernobyl
Nuclear blast zones, floating landfills, volcanic moonscapes, and other must-visit destinations for the disaster tourist.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | DECEMBER 23, 2010
Long Shots
Why throwing money at today's clean-energy technologies could keep us from discovering tomorrow's.
BY VINOD KHOSLA | DECEMBER 10, 2010
The Expectations Game
The U.N. climate summit now under way in Cancún won't rival last year's roller-coaster ride of hopes and disappointment in Copenhagen. Thank goodness.
BY CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 30, 2010
The Plundered Planet
From Global Thinker No. 29 Paul Collier, an examination of the divide between environment and economy, and a plea for reconciliation.
BY PAUL COLLIER | DECEMBER 2010
Global Warning
Mohamed Nasheed, president of the climate-change-threatened Maldives, speaks via email with Foreign Policy's Charles Homans about the difficulty of diplomacy, the promise of protest, and why moving his whole country might be more difficult than he once thought.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | DECEMBER 2010
How We Got Trapped by Carbon
Vaclav Smil, Global Thinker No. 49, tells Foreign Policy's Charles Homans how the West got tricked into thinking it could overcome its gasoline addiction.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | DECEMBER 2010
The Stories You Missed in 2010
Ten events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2011.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2010
Delusion Points
Don't fall for the nostalgia -- George W. Bush's foreign policy really was that bad.
BY STEPHEN M. WALT | NOVEMBER 8, 2010
Gaming the Electric Car Chase
As the four front-runners sprint around the track, some favorites could end up in the dust.
NOVEMBER 2010
What Happens to a Place After It's Covered in Toxic Sludge?
Nothing good.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | OCTOBER 6, 2010
You Don't Bring a Praseodymium Knife to a Gunfight
China thinks it can withhold its exports of obscure but important minerals to get its way with its neighbors. Why it picked the wrong weapon.
BY TIM WORSTALL | SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
The Save-the-World Clock
Global leaders promised a decade ago to end poverty by 2015. With just five years left, the U.N. General Assembly -- including an estimated 140 heads of state -- will meet this week to assess progress. How much good has been done? Here's a hint: not enough.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
A Changed Climate Skeptic?
Bjorn Lomborg has long infuriated environmental activists with his contrarian views on global warming. Has he now embraced their cause?
INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
Hell and High Water
From Pakistan's floods to Russia's wildfires to the United States' oil spill, 2010 has been an unusually bad summer for disasters, natural and otherwise -- enough so that plenty of enormous catastrophes, or just plain weird ones, have had to fight for headlines. Here's FP's list of the disasters you missed.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | AUGUST 31, 2010
Think Again: Offshore Drilling
President Obama told residents of the gulf states this weekend that he feels their pain. But the best way to help the gulf would be to let his ill-advised drilling moratorium expire early.
BY ERIC R.A.N. SMITH | AUGUST 30, 2010
Bono vs. Putin
A rumble in the Khimki forest leaves just one man standing. The question is, how many trees are left there too?
BY JULIA IOFFE | AUGUST 27, 2010
Grain Pains
Imagine if the drought this summer near Moscow happened near Chicago or Beijing. Lester Brown has, and he's afraid.
INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 26, 2010
The YIMBYS
Five places saying "yes, in my backyard" to the nasty stuff that no one else wants.
BY SYLVIE STEIN | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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