Nation Topics - Environmental Issues | The Nation

The moment couldn't have been more ripe for a real advance in the fight against climate change.

Climate change might be more important to voters than most politicians think.

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

If a metaphorical wall of trees gets built as grassroots activists envision, it could help save the continent from hunger, poverty and climate change.

Thanks to the antidemocratic "supercommittee," the legislation singularly responsible for shaping our food system is being written behind closed doors.

It’s not hard to understand how environmental quality and economic inequality came to be joined at the hip.

While right-wingers froth over the Solyndra mess, a scandal with far higher stakes is being swept under the rug.

As the Koch brothers continue their war against environmental regulations, their factories are causing fatal health problems for local residents.

The Chamber of Commerce and its Republican allies have launched “the Contract With America on steroids.”

Obama doesn’t have much time left to convince environmental activists that he’s worth their sweat and sacrifices in the next election.