By MIKE IVES — PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Ouch Leng, an environmental activist who operates undercover to fight illegal logging, has had some close scrapes in what is by all

Papua New Guinea has been receiving far less finance for forest conservation than most other countries with large tropical forests. That’s the finding from a new report by the NGO,

BY ARTHUR BLUNDELL, EMILY HARWELL — Natural resources play a role in nearly half of the world’s conflicts, but when it comes to ending wars, they’re almost always forgotten. It has
By JUSTIN GILLIS — LE BOURGET, France — The climate deal being negotiated here is meant to begin a transformation of the world’s energy systems, but it has another goal that