Tina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist who covers the international climate change negotiations, domestic energy policy, hurricanes, and sea level rise. Her writing has been published in Grist, The Nation, The Progressive, Sierra Magazine, and Washington Monthly. You can follow her on Twitter @TinaGerhardtEJ.
Expectations are low that the United Nations’s upcoming two-week climate conference will produce the international agreement needed to avert global warming.
Fleeing the Iraq War, increasing numbers of young refugees are forced into prostitution.