Nation Topics - Environmental Issue | The Nation

Hundreds of people continue their nonviolent protest outside the White House, urging the president to say no to the potentially environmentally disastrous Keystone XL pipeline. 

Climate scientist Stephen Vavrus says that climate change is behind the increasing number of extreme weather events.

Now that climate change is an undeniable reality around the world, the only option left requires not only reducing carbon emissions, but also adapting to the effects of man-made global warming already underway.

As the US government continues to ignore the science on climate change, we are heading down the path towards an uninhabitable world.

John Ikerd on how we cannot continue to grow at the rate we've been growing in past.

Already, eighteen countries are overpumping their aquifers, and few realize that in the event of a crisis, the US food supply would run out in three days.

There are no effective “safeguards” against nuclear disasters, and Japan’s crisis is only the latest display of the overwhelming risks involved in splitting atoms for energy.

We have to to fight back against the corporate capture of government because the companies profiting off our addiction to oil are doing everything in their power to keep us on our destructive course.

Climate change is happening and it's dangerous, so at this point, science deniers should have no say in the discussion.

The severe weather now reshaping how we live will only intensify if we ignore the damage we're doing to the planet.