Nation Topics - Environmental Issues | The Nation

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.

In Japan, fears about nuclear fallout have only been getting worse as disaster cleanup crews struggle with radioactive water leaking out of the Fukushima plant.

Joel Salatin outlines the key issues America faces as its citizens increasingly rely on concentrated animal feeding operations that require cheap energy in order to operate profitably.

Even as Fukushima threatens to unleash the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl, the president champions nuclear power in the United States.

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.