The Globalist

How Indonesia’s out-of-control deforestation and slash-and-burn contributes massively to global warming emissions.

How consumers in China, Europe and India fuel tropical deforestation around the world.

What percentage of global CO2 emissions from human activity stems from deforestation and land conversion?

How much of Brazil’s rainforest has been lost and what has replaced it?

How deforestation is warming the planet and what polices might rein it in.

How Chinese trade and investment in Brazil are altering the power equation in Brazilian politics.

Are Berber women in Morocco’s argan groves holding back the spreading Sahara by producing a first-world luxury?

How does the legacy of the late Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai live on?

How can alternative energy sources put human development onto a sustainable path?

In light of all the recent failures from Detroit, the Big Three and Wall Street, can we really trust the invisible hand to allocate financial or natural resources rationally?