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David FicklingBloomberg |
Is China still the best justification for ongoing crude demand, or the worst? While most of the world remains fixated on the slow-motion car crash in...
The devastation from California’s wildfires is unique in its horror — but it has precedents elsewhere in the world. And some time-honored...
What could be more terrifying than a wall of flame sweeping through the suburbs of Los Angeles? The stealthy cloud of pollution seeping into...
If you yearn for a future where you can travel from place to place in safety and comfort, some of the major transport events of 2024 might feel like...
We’re now almost halfway through a decade where the world needs to drastically cut carbon emissions if we’re to avoid damaging global warming. The...
If you’re worried about China’s insatiable appetite for coal and its role in the relentless heating of our planet, you might see the building of...
Those who follow the energy transition seem perpetually pitched between elation and despair. For every fragment of positive news — surging Chinese...
There’s been no shortage of grim climate news to hit the headlines over the past year. In March, the United Nations’ weather agency declared 2023...
It’s hard to forget your first glimpse of a turtle in its natural environment. In my case, it happened about 15 years ago, on a cay in Australia’s...
How do the ecologically-minded make it through the annual festive orgy of frivolous consumerism? Nearly a fifth of non-automotive US retail...
What do you do in an energy industry that’s facing its first speed bumps after decades of meteoric growth? In the case of oil, the answer in 1960...
Getting a stay of execution doesn’t mean you’re no longer on death row. That’s the situation that General Motors Co.’s Chinese joint venture finds...
Much of the world might be hunkering down for the start of winter, but in the Southern Hemisphere a blistering summer is building. In my hometown...
You can regard the depressing denouement of the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan at the weekend as a sort of diplomatic echo of the US...
High-tech manufacturing in China over the past year has often felt like watching a looking-glass parody of the US. In America, electric vehicles...
Germany’s Carl Benz might have invented the automobile, but it’s the United States that got us to drive them. The relentless export of American...
Has there ever been a grimmer backdrop to the world’s most concerted attempt to avert global warming? COP29 — the annual conference for the United...
To many in the petroleum industry, natural gas is the unsung hero of the energy transition. It may not be a clean fuel, but it’s nowhere near as...
For all the damage that humanity is causing through our production of greenhouse gases, the numbers involved can seem impossibly slight. Every year...
France and Japan are both world leaders in design — but if you’re wanting to keep up with fashion, Paris is the unmissable trendsetter, while...
Attempts to prevent the destruction of the world’s rainforests are badly off track — and in the public mind, electric vehicles are increasingly to...
The Hongqi L5 might not be the most obvious risk to Europe’s struggling auto industry. Weighing in at more than three tons, as long from bumper to...
Could our unshakeable addiction to plastics be broken? That’s certainly the hope of activists. The US — birthplace of the modern polymers industry,...
When’s the last time you visited a gas station that sold nothing but gas? If the answer is “never,” you’ve hit on one of the key problems for the...
Over the past three years, European governments and the administration of US President Joe Biden have announced a set of ambitious plans to wean...
By any stretch of the imagination, the US is one of the world’s biggest coal producers. Even after declining by about half since 2008, output last...
We don’t yet know the details of the problem that caused Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. to cancel flights and inspect its entire fleet of Airbus SE...
For those concerned about the environmental damage caused by fossil fuels, stricken oil tankers in the Red Sea are almost as recognizable as the...
In a region that’s used to being taken for granted by its neighbors, it’s remarkable what a little agency can achieve. That’s what the...
Billionaires with an eye on their legacy rarely do things on a small scale. Take Australia’s fifth-richest person, Mike Cannon-Brookes. The...
For many people, cruise ships sound like one of the blander circles of hell: Enormous floating holiday parks laden with lukewarm buffet food, bored...
Anyone running a protection racket knows the rule: Squeeze your marks too hard, and they’ll end up breaking. That’s what appears to be happening in...
Airlines aren’t always the best allies in the fight against climate change. But one place where they’re world leaders is in their fanatical drive...
Summer rains are leaving China sodden. That’s pushing coal underwater. After several years of drought, rainfall has been lashing the country for...
In the race to clean up industry, clean energy is slipping behind fossil fuels. That’s because we’ve pinned a lot of hopes on the prospects of...
What’s the first industry to fall victim to climate change? There’s a decent argument that it already happened — more than 600 years ago. When the...
If you want evidence that the malign effect of our era’s culture wars is causing us to go backward on issues that were once considered settled,...
Among all the landscapes created by human industry, timber plantations may be one of the most maligned. Spreading across the land in rows as...
To get an idea of why the oil industry keeps failing to see the demand lift from China that it’s been waiting for all year, consider this: The area...
What’s not to like about a sparkling bathing spot in the middle of a global city? Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) bet to...
Which automotive company, more than any other, is responsible for getting the world’s population moving? Ford Motor Co., whose Model T turned the...
What’s the biggest event at the Olympic Games? There’s a good case that it’s not running, or swimming, or gymnastics, but the celebration of...
Imagine if France, or Taiwan, or the United Arab Emirates eliminated their carbon dioxide emissions in a couple of years — and no one noticed....
The world’s biggest source of renewable energy has been going through a dry patch. Generation from solar farms roughly tripled between 2018 and...