Nation Topics - Environmental Issues | The Nation

350.org’s caravan heads to Washington, DC, to push President Obama to address climate change in his second term.

What does this election mean for the future of the country? Are electoral politics really a mechanism for change? 

The recovery could be an opportunity to realign our relationship with the natural world.

If there was ever a response to Mitt Romney’s smug RNC laugh line about climate change—or to Obama’s failure to address it—Hurricane Sandy delivered.

If we can learn one thing from Superstorm Sandy, it's that we ignore climate change at our own peril.

The recovery could be an opportunity to realign our relationship with the natural world.

We can choose to ignore scientific warnings about climate change—or we can choose to act.

Without immediate action, cities like New York and Washington face a future of massive levees, floodgates and ecological catastrophe.

It’s time to ditch the political euphemisms, and start calling lies, theft and greed by their true name.

A tribute to the pioneering environmentalist who put science in the service of social justice.