Environment

Think Again: Oil

It protects wealthy autocrats, poisons the environment, and fuels international conflicts. Yet it won't be the false threat of scarcity or the rise of an Asian energy axis that convinces the world to finally kick the oil habit. An auto revolution courtesy of Silicon Valley and Shanghai may deliver an end to the defining addiction of our age.

BY VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN | OCTOBER 11, 2007

Full of Hot Air?

OCTOBER 11, 2007

A Chorus of Solutions

There are no easy solutions. We may have to try them all at once.

BY THOMAS HOMER-DIXON | APRIL 18, 2007

Expert Sitings: Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas is a columnist for Britain's New Statesman magazine and the author of High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis. His blog can be found at marklynas.org.

DECEMBER 27, 2006

Warm New World

OCTOBER 10, 2006

The Green Rose of Texas

BY SALLY MCGRANE | OCTOBER 10, 2006

The Failed States Index

Democracy may be spreading, but is the world more stable? In the second-annual Failed States Index, FP and the Fund for Peace track the countries on the edge of collapse.

BY FOREIGN POLICY & THE FUND FOR PEACE | APRIL 25, 2006

Natural Dangers

The destruction of New Orleans reminded us all of the awesome power of nature. But many had warned about the possibility of bad days for the Big Easy. FP highlights some other cities that could make nature's hit list.

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

Auto Emissions

BY JOHN BROWNE | AUGUST 30, 2005

In Green Company

If Kyoto is so dangerous, why is corporate America already playing by its rules?

BY STUART EIZENSTAT, RUBÉN KRAIEM | AUGUST 30, 2005

Debate: The State of Nature

Is the world getting greener? Or are we selling it short for a fistful of greenbacks? Apparently, even committed environmentalists can disagree. When Carl Pope looks out his door, he sees the polar ice caps melting, ecosystems on life support, and clean water disappearing. But Bjørn Lomborg believes humanity's backyard has never looked better. Who's got it right? For young and old, rich and poor, the answer might just mean the world.

BY CARL POPE, BJØRN LOMBORG | JULY 1, 2005

Observing Earth

MARCH 1, 2005

Covered for Climate Change

NOVEMBER 1, 2004

Pollution Solution

BY JENNIFER L. RICH | SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor

The war against poverty is threatened by friendly fire. A swarm of media-savvy Western activists has descended upon aid agencies, staging protests to block projects that allegedly exploit the developing world. The protests serve professional agitators by keeping their pet causes in the headlines. But they do not always serve the millions of people who live without clean water or electricity.

BY SEBASTIAN MALLABY | SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

The Clone Wars

JULY 1, 2004

Free-Range Markets

In poor countries, hunting endangered species may be the best way to save them.

BY JOSHUA KURLANTZICK | MAY 1, 2004

Diaper Development

MAY 1, 2004

On Faulty Ground

MAY 1, 2004

A Development Nightmare

What if poor nations actually caught up with rich ones?

BY KENNETH ROGOFF | JANUARY 1, 2004

An Indigenous World

How native peoples can turn globalization to their advantage.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Unsustainable Development

NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Pipe Dreams in Iraq

Why won't the U.S. occupation of Iraq transform global oil markets? Ask Saudi Arabia.

BY VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN | SEPTEMBER 1, 2003

The Morality of the Market

The market economy has triumphed virtually everywhere -- and has come to be reviled virtually everywhere. Critics, including more than a few economists, charge that capitalism creates gross inequality, inflicts environmental destruction, and undermines democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. The market economy is the most just and humane economic system yet conceived.

BY MARTIN WOLF | SEPTEMBER 1, 2003

The Taming of the Amazon

BY ELIZABETH JOHNSON | MAY 1, 2003

Ranking the Rich 2003

In a groundbreaking new ranking, FOREIGN POLICY teamed up with Center for Global Development to create the first annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index, which grades 21 rich nations on whether their aid, trade, migration, investment, peacekeeping, and environmental policies help or hurt poor nations. Find out why the Netherlands ranks first and why the world's two largest aid givers -- the United States and Japan -- finish last.

BY FOREIGN POLICY, CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT | MAY 1, 2003

The Market for Civil War

Ethnic tensions and ancient political feuds are not starting civil wars around the world. A groundbreaking new study of civil conflict over the last 40 years reveals that economic forces -- such as entrenched poverty and the trade in natural resources -- are the true culprits. The solution? Curb rebel financing, jump-start economic growth in vulnerable regions, and provide a robust military presence in nations emerging from conflict.

BY PAUL COLLIER | MAY 1, 2003

Mine Weeders

MAY 1, 2003