Even as the 12-day UN meeting in Marrakesh that has been tasked with finishing the rulebook for the Paris Agreement got underway on Monday, all eyes are on the crucial US presidential elections. The fate of the climate talks largely hinges on the US polls. Climate negotiators are rooting for Republican Donald Trump’s defeat. His win could throw cold water …

  Back in 2008, incoming President Barack Obama inherited a U.S. financial crisis that was to some degree made in China. The next U.S. president may well confront a Chinese financial crunch with its origins in the U.S., as China unwinds the credit imbalances built up over the last eight years to defend against that global slump. China’s Debt Bomb …

  The results of a new Pew Research Center poll on politics and climate change surprised even some of those who study public attitudes toward science. Forty-five percent of respondents who identified as conservative Republicans said they had little or no trust in climate scientists, compared with 6 percent of self-described liberal Democrats. Only 15 percent of conservatives said they …