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

Adapt or Die (Climate Change)

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

Mark Hertsgaard

Killer Weather Ahead (Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Environment)

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

Mark Hertsgaard

Mutiny for the Bounty (Environmental Issues, Environment)

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

Mark Hertsgaard

Big Win for Enviros (Environmental Issues, Electoral Politics, Environment, Politics)

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

Mark Hertsgaard

Return to Chelyabinsk (Environmental Issues, Environment)

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.

Mark Hertsgaard

CA Leads on Climate (Climate Change, Environmental Issues, States, Environment, Politics)

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.

Mark Hertsgaard

The Greening of America

New York City

Mark Hertsgaard and Our Readers

The G-8's Risky Nuclear Embrace (Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Global Organizations, Environment)

As leaders of the world's richest nations gather in St. Petersburg to craft a global energy security strategy, they're poised to endorse a major expansion of nuclear power. Bad idea.

Mark Hertsgaard

Green Grows Grassroots (Social Justice, Environmental Activism, The Left, Politics)

In the Bush era, the green movement has become a paper tiger. It must
regroup, reframe and reach out across the lines of race and class that
have kept environmental issues at the political fringe.

Mark Hertsgaard

Party of a Different Color (Climate Change, Regions and Countries)

"Vote Blue, Go Green" is the new slogan of Britain's Conservative
Party, a measure of just how great a concern climate change is becoming
to politicians of all stripes.

Mark Hertsgaard