Environment

A Mexican Navy vessel chases masked men on skiffs fishing illegally inside the Vaquita Refuge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California, off San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico March 3, 2020 in this picture released by the Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT SEA SHEPHERD.

Order from Chaos

Illegal fishing in Mexico and policy responses

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, September 14, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the bulk carrier ship MV Wakashio, that ran aground on a reef, at Riviere des Creoles, Mauritius, in this handout image obtained by Reuters on August 11, 2020. French Army command/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY/File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Mali coup, Mauritius oil spill, and COVID-19 updates

Chris Heitzig

Saturday, September 5, 2020

A worker adjusts a water irrigation system in a field near San Ysidro, California March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Illicit Trade

Grand theft water and the calculus of compliance

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Nature Sustainability Monday, August 24, 2020

A shot of downtown Phoenix during the summer. Sunlight and heat can combine with pollutants to form ozone.Ozone Warning For Maricopa County

PlanetPolicy

Amid COVID-19, don’t ignore the links between poor air quality and public health

Jennifer Perron and Samantha Gross

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Reports

Flames emerge from the flare stacks at the West Qurna-1 oilfield, which is operated by Exxon Mobil, near Basra, Iraq, May 20, 2019. Picture taken May 20, 2019. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani - RC1D78173900

Environment

The TAP-Plus approach to anti-corruption in the natural resource value chain

Norman Eisen, Daniel Kaufmann, Nathaniel Heller, J. Preston Whitt, Mario Picon, Victoria Bassetti, and John Hudak

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Essay

Why are fossil fuels so hard to quit?

Samantha Gross

Monday, June 8, 2020

Policy 2020

The United States can take climate change seriously while leading the world in oil and gas production

Samantha Gross

Monday, January 27, 2020

A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at "Solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, October 7, 2009. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto towers where they produce steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN ENERGY ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E5A71NB401

Climate Change

Renewables, land use, and local opposition in the United States

Samantha Gross

January 2020

Report

Africa can play a leading role in the fight against climate change

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Blog Posts

A Yanomami indian follows agents of Brazil's environmental agency in a gold mine during an operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in Roraima state, Brazil April 17, 2016. Picture taken April 17, 2016. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Up Front

Uncommon ground: The impact of natural resource corruption on indigenous peoples

Carter Squires, Kelsey Landau, and Robin J. Lewis

Friday, August 7, 2020

Zaki El-Dine, 24, a brick-maker, pours water from the Nile river onto a patch of mud to make bricks on Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan, February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "BENSEMRA NILE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Africa in Focus

The controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

John Mukum Mbaku

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Coal is transported via conveyor belt to the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant that supplied by the neighboring Jim Bridger mine that is owned by energy firm PacifiCorp and the Idaho Power Company, outside Point of the Rocks, Wyoming March 14, 2014. West Virginia mined 120 million tons (109 metric tons) of coal in 2012, second to Wyoming, or about 12 percent of total U.S. production. Kentucky was third with about 9 percent of output, according to the National Mining Association. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS)

Policy 2020

What is the Trump administration’s track record on the environment?

Samantha Gross

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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Events

2020

Jul

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Can we end corruption in oil, gas, and mining?

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Webinar: Confronting climate change in the global COVID-19 recovery

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Climate threats and climate justice: Action and adaptation for sustainable development

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

Washington, DC

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Experts

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Multimedia

Washington, DC - April 29, 2017: Thousands of people attend the People's Climate March to stand up against climate change. By Nicole Glass Photography

Podcast Episode

What’s in Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan?

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, July 24, 2020

A Greenpeace activist makes adjustments while hanging from the ceiling inside a giant model of the globe near Konin open mine, 70 km from Poznan, western Poland December 3, 2008. Greenpeace established a camp to protest against the damage it says the Konin mine is doing to the climate, regional tourism and farming, and against the planned opening of new sites. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel (POLAND) - GM1E4C406SK01

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COVID-19 and climate: Your questions, our answers

Pablo Vieira, Stéphane Hallegatte, Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, and Todd Stern

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Energy Industry

What drove oil prices through the floor this week?

Samantha Gross and David Dollar

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

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