Causeswww.flickr.com Are China’s pledges to green its Belt and Road Initiative the real deal? Some are skeptical of claims the country’s massive global infrastructure program can be sustainable.
Resiliencecommons.wikimedia.org Big water pipelines, an old pursuit, still alluring in drying West Diverting Mississippi River is not happening, though.
Politics e360.yale.edu A wave of infrastructure projects to cause widespread deforestation in coming decades, report finds A slate of new mega-projects in development around the world will open up vast tracts of land to natural resource extraction and deforestation, derailing government and private sector pledges to curb forest loss, according to a new report.
Opinion www.nytimes.com Shoshanna Saxe, Kristen MacAskill: Stop building more roads There’s a right way to do infrastructure. Why does America get it wrong?
Politics www.nytimes.com ‘Our river was like a god': How dams and China's might imperil the Mekong A river system that feeds millions of people is in danger of being starved of the nutrients needed to sustain its life.
