Nation Topics - Environment | The Nation

One anthropologist’s place in his field’s ongoing battle over questions of power, means and ends.

One of the youngest and poorest senators, Martin Heinrich rose to the top as a supporter of labor and environmental issues.

Climate change and its political repercussions.

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?

James Hansen bravely told the truth even when the Bush administration tried to silence and penalize him.

Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?

Our twenty-first-century, American-dictated, unipolar moment is a planetary time bomb.

Repression after 9/11 is nothing compared to what's come before, and our tools to fight it are greater.

Some of big green's most powerful players still invest in energy companies.

Farming communities are being turned into huge, open-air laboratories by energy companies—with ordinary people serving as guinea pigs.