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Will direct action against big polluters prove more successful than Capitol Hill–based attempts to fight climate change?

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

In honor of Earth Day 2011, The Nation has collected some of our strongest reporting from the past year on the environment, climate change and what can be done to protect our planet.

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.

PowerShift's green organizers descended on Washington this weekend and gave Obama some tough love.

Some Greens have embraced nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels, but the economics just aren't there.

When it looked like Obama might cave to the Republican attack on the EPA, the outcry from environmental organizations was swift. And it worked.

To confront climate change we need an alternative economic model that emphasizes the local. This will come as a shock to many, but haven't the last 50 years of globalization also been a shock?

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