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Mark Hertsgaard | The Nation

Mark Hertsgaard

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Mark Hertsgaard

Environment Correspondent

Mark Hertsgaard (markhertsgaard.com), a fellow of New America Foundation and a co-founder of the group Climate Parents, is The Nation's environment correspondent. He has covered climate change for twenty years and is the author of six books, including, most recently, HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.

Articles

News and Features

The era of cheap, plentiful oil is just about over. Now what?

As carbon emissions raise the planetary temperature, environmental activists are asking Nobel laureate Al Gore to engage in civil disobedience protesting construction of coal-fired power plants. He hasn't said no.

As scenarios on the impact of global warming worsen, Senate Democrats are poised to abandon a realistic bill and support a deeply flawed measure that doesn't solve the problem.

Areas like Bangladesh and New Orleans, which promise to be hard hit by climate change, face a stark decision.

The good news on the latest global warming report: Political leaders can no longer ignore it. The bad news: It's probably too late.

We can't survive without oceans, but you wouldn't know that from the way we treat them.

America's environmentalists won big in the midterm elections. But can
they make real progress on climate change by 2008 and beyond?

A G-8 plan to ramp up nuclear energy is defended as a necessary
response to global warming. But the nuclear waste it generates will hurt
people and the planet.

California's global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is
compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.

Blogs

President Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will meet within hours in Copenhagen to try to break the deadlock.
The Alliance of Small Island Nations roils summit with call for huge emissions reductions as activists prepare for global day of action...
How Obama could save or scuttle a deal in Copenhagen, and why he needs civil society to push him.
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