By CORAL DAVENPORT and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON — ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. — Each morning at 3:30, when Joann Bourg leaves the mildewed and rusted house that her parents built
By David Yarnold — Here’s how I’d describe most nonprofits’ use of technology and communications: old, slow, and ineffectual. And here’s how most tech geeks and communications professionals think nonprofits
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
Douglas Meffert guest column: Six years after BP’s devastating rig explosion and oil spill, the legal battles are behind us — finally. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has approved the
By David Yarnold — Thanks to a judge’s ruling, BP finally has to pay for what it broke on the Gulf Coast. And the Gulf states can shift their focus
By Jorge L. Ortiz — HAVANA, Cuba – Perhaps buoyed by the goodwill Major League Baseball has engendered in its return to Cuba, Commissioner Rob Manfred is confident a new
By Joel Sherman — HAVANA – A cockroach had crawled on the table, moving from in front of me toward the commissioner of baseball. After a formal news conference Monday
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 Abby Kessler, E&E reporter — As the Isle de Jean Charles in southern Louisiana sinks slowly into the Gulf of Mexico, a group of Native Americans who have inhabited
By Shreya Dasgupta — Ceasefire or peace agreements rarely cover terms about natural resources and vulnerable populations in a meaningful, comprehensive way, a new report has found, often causing conflicts
By Bob Nightengale — JUPITER, Fla. — OK, maybe it’s a little dramatic for Major League Baseball. Baseball has trouble enough deciding whether the DH should be employed in both
By David Yarnold, President, National Audubon Society — How has the most powerful El Niño in nearly two decades and the extraordinary weather patterns it spawned this winter affected birds?
In this piece, we hear from the head of one of the oldest and most respected conservation groups on the planet about how technology, citizen science and new models for
By Maury Brown — Today marks the 366th day that Rob Manfred has been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. After taking over for Bud Selig, many questioned whether Manfred
By Jerry Crasnick — Rob Manfred’s legacy as Major League Baseball’s 10th commissioner is yet to be defined. But in his first 365 days on the job, he crossed off an
By Jeff Hebert and David Muth — The recent opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway is a dramatic reminder of our region’s precarious relationship with water and the responsibility and opportunity
Editorial – When Mother Nature gives you an opportunity, you’ve got to be in position to take advantage of it. Now, with the Mississippi River hitting its crest in January, another
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 Heather Joslyn — Twice during the most recent year-end giving season, fundraisers at the National Philanthropic Trust, which solicits and manages donor-advised funds, started the paperwork for incoming gifts it
By David Yarnold — As the need for renewable energy becomes more pressing, some of the fiercest duels in the West are now being fought over where to put power lines,
By Joby Warrick and Chris Mooney — LE BOURGET, France — Diplomats from 196 countries prepared to vote Saturday on a far-reaching climate accord that seeks to halt the rapid growth
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