Global Warming

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

Running the World, After the Crash

Has the era of global cooperation ended before it began?

BY RICHARD SAMANS, KLAUS SCHWAB, MARK MALLOCH-BROWN | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011

Electric Company

Gen. Wesley Clark and Roger Kemp argue that a new superbattery isn't enough to make the electric car viable.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011

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

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

The Rational Optimist Goes Global

Recommended by our global thinkers, an excerpt from Matt Ridley's book on why everything is going to be OK -- even Africa and global warming.

BY MATT RIDLEY | 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

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

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 Ice Kingdom

A photographic portrait of the Arctic -- or what's left of it -- in all its glacial beauty.

AUGUST 16, 2010

Think Again: The Arctic

Everyone wants a piece of the thawing far north. But that doesn't mean anarchy will reign at the top of the world.

BY LAWSON W. BRIGHAM | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

They're Really Melting

Three glaciers that are fast receding from their icy peaks.

AUGUST 3, 2010

"It's Going to Make a Huge Mess"

The man who coined the term "global warming" looks back at 35 years of climate change.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | AUGUST 3, 2010

Who Killed the Climate Bill?

We asked the experts who is to blame.

JULY 23, 2010

Whatever It Takes

Why I won't back down on climate change.

BY JOHN KERRY | JULY 1, 2010

The Dhaka Solution

While the rest of the world debates climate change, Bangladesh has started living the reality of a warmer, more volatile world.

BY SEBASTIAN STRANGIO | JUNE 7, 2010

Don't Panic, Go Organic

Be not troubled by Robert Paarlberg's scaremongering. Organic practices can feed the world -- better, in fact, than wasteful industrial farming.

BY ANNA LAPPÉ | APRIL 29, 2010

Stormy Forecast

How climate change affects trade.

BY KAYVAN FARZANEH | MAY/JUNE 2010

The Big Thirsty

From contamination to droughts to just going without, images from the world's water crises.

MARCH 22, 2010

The FP Guide to Climate Skeptics

Can't tell the legitimate concerns from the nonsense? FP is here to help.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON, JOSHUA KEATING | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Capping It Off

How a concept became an environmental policy catchphrase.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH/APRIL 2010

Africa Heats Up

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH/APRIL 2010

Why India Is No Villain

Barbara Crossette is wrong: This rising power helps solve far more problems than it creates.

BY NITIN PAI | JANUARY 7, 2010

Coal for Christmas

The World Bank is still subsidizing one of the world's dirtiest fuels.

BY PHIL RADFORD | DECEMBER 22, 2009

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

Banking on Coal

Why is the World Bank subsidizing one of the planet's dirtiest fuels?

BY PHIL RADFORD | DECEMBER 9, 2009

The Big Freak Out

The downfall of the brains behind the Freakonomics phenomenon.

BY CLAY RISEN | NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Recipe for Failure

Why Copenhagen will be a bust, and other prophecies from the foreign-policy world's leading predictioneer.

BY BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009