Trading just ended in the last of China’s seven carbon markets and the compliance rate was high, but only thanks to flexible deadlines.

ISIS rules its territory brutally, and its hold over local populations is the key to its success or failure. Western policy must acknowledge that the war must be fought locally, not from thousands of feet in the air.

Washington’s new relationship with Cuba is poised to face its first test: negotiations about billions of dollars worth of unresolved property disputes.

To the extent that the $14 million dollar a year cost is borne by individual campuses rather than the UC as a whole, it will likely disproportionately effect the most vulnerable campuses in the cash-starved system.

Scientists have genetically modified rice to boost crop yields while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. How can greens reject this?

Tokyo and Beijing’s latest row is over Chinese rigs that are drilling near—but not in—Japanese waters.

Euroskeptic parties, eager to capitalize on Greece’s apparent humiliation a week ago, appear to be facing some political headwinds lately.

After two years ConocoPhillips is pulling out of a Chinese shale play in the Sichuan basin. Fracking is harder than the US makes it look.

As of today, WaPo reporter Jason Rezaian has been imprisoned in Iran on manufactured charges for a full year—and he’s not the only America languishing behind Iranian bars.

Burundians took to the polls on Tuesday, but did so in a climate of fear and violence.