Post-Copenhagen Scorecard

The deadline has passed for countries to submit CO2-reduction targets under the new climate accord. Here's the verdict.

BY DAVID ROBERTS | FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Obama's Green Bargain

Last year, around this time, the U.S. president was extolling the virtues of solar power. Now, he's talking about coal and nuclear plants. What happened?

BY KATE SHEPPARD | JANUARY 29, 2010

A $123 Trillion China? Not Likely.

The many, many reasons -- from the financial crisis to the country's aging population to environmental limitations -- why Robert Fogel's forecast for China is completely inconceivable. 

BY NICHOLAS CONSONERY | JANUARY 7, 2010

Crude Is the New Carbon

Since the world can't seem to agree on cutting carbon emissions, maybe it's time to try an easier but equally important target: oil.

BY GAL LUFT | DECEMBER 22, 2009

Todd Stern, I Feel Your Pain

Words of empathy from one former negotiator to another -- big summits are a bear. Best of luck in Copenhagen.

BY KEN ADELMAN | DECEMBER 7, 2009

Boring Summits Are Better for Everyone

Why Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh should say as little as possible when they meet in Washington next week.

BY JOHN LEE | NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Five Things Obama Should Do in China

Here's what the U.S. president needs to do to shore up what is fast becoming the most important relationship in the world.

BY JOHN WATKINS, JR. | NOVEMBER 16, 2009

China's New Colonialism

China has sought to differentiate itself from the West in Africa, investing in development instead of relying on the old donor schemes. But the effects of what it's planning -- most recently, in the iron-rich country of Gabon -- will be just as devastating as anything the West has done there.

BY KHADIJA SHARIFE | SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Inside The Digital Dump

Photos by Natalie Behring

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

A Whale of a Controversy

Japan's dolphin-hunting industry gets skewered in The Cove, a just-released documentary by director Louie Psihoyos. But after this year's setbacks at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting, dolphins aren't the only marine mammals that are in trouble.

BY BRIAN FUNG | JULY 31, 2009

A Violent Window of Opportunity

Why troubled times are the perfect chance to calm the Niger Delta.

BY MARK L. SCHNEIDER, NNAMDI OBASI | JULY 17, 2009

Think Again: The Green Economy

Going green has finally gone mainstream, and politicians from London to Seoul are spending billions on clean technologies they say will create jobs. But unless we are all willing to risk a little more pain, the green revolution could founder before it ever really starts.

BY MATTHEW E. KAHN | APRIL 15, 2009

Putin's Useful Idiots

Wonder why Russia has Europe over a barrel? Ask German environmentalists.

BY WILLIAM YEATMAN | OCTOBER 7, 2008

Global Warming? No Sweat.

APRIL 10, 2008