Nation Topics - Environmental Issues | The Nation

Climate change is not just "bad weather." In fact, it fuels ethnic strife, religious violence and resource wars. 

The Last Mountain exposes these travesties and the growing mobilization to stand up and fight back. 

When extreme weather hits amid extreme poverty, escape becomes nearly impossible.

A thirty-year war for energy pre-eminence? You wouldn’t wish it on a desperate planet. But that’s where we’re headed and there’s no turning back.

The spent-fuel pools at our reactors, containing thousands of tons of poorly protected but highly radioactive waste, are a catastrophe waiting to happen.

Dense cities are a lot more energy efficient than decentralized sprawl, argues Harvard professor and urban advocate Edward Glaeser.

These past few years, mega-fires in the West have become ever more routine.

Investors who seek out companies that are meeting the long-term challenge of sustainability will have a strategic advantage.

Is dirty energy the only way to meet the huge demands of the modern world? New numbers suggest renewables could do the job—and more.

How droughts, the Arab Spring and the decline of nuclear power are shaping the future of global energy consumption.