Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma? Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma?
Two prominent health groups are demanding that the State Department find out.
Apr 11, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
The World Bank’s Waste of Energy The World Bank’s Waste of Energy
Expanding energy access makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is using a failed scheme—like carbon trading—to pay for it.
Apr 11, 2014 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Janet Redman and Foreign Policy In Focus
Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust
A large group of Harvard faculty release an open letter to President Drew Gilpin Faust calling forcefully for fossil-fuel divestment.
Apr 10, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against? This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against?
A small group of skeptics says rising global temperatures will have a net positive effect on the world.
Apr 10, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It
Plagued by poor infrastructure, climate denialism, unregulated fracking wells and nuclear waste sites, the United States is poised to topple itself with self-inflicted wounds.
Apr 8, 2014 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Emanuel Pastreich, John Feffer, and Foreign Policy In Focus
An Important Lesson From Right-Wing Science Dude An Important Lesson From Right-Wing Science Dude
Global warming is just one of many lies the ‘scientific community’ tries to impose on us.
Apr 8, 2014 / Blog / Tom Tomorrow
Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future
Student climate activists in Massachusetts win a meeting with Governor Deval Patrick about banning new fossil-fuel infrastructure. But they need more than a meeting.
Apr 1, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
We Are Now in the Terminal Stage of Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction We Are Now in the Terminal Stage of Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction
Senior politicians in both parties have become so intoxicated by the idea of an American surge in energy production that they have lost their senses.
Apr 1, 2014 / Michael T. Klare
If We Want to Adapt to Climate Change, We Need to Start Now If We Want to Adapt to Climate Change, We Need to Start Now
According to the IPCC’s latest report, global warming is already hurting people, especially the poor, and is bound to get worse in the years ahead.
Mar 31, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard
Why We Must Divest From Fossil Fuels: A Student’s Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust Why We Must Divest From Fossil Fuels: A Student’s Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust
Harvard graduate student Benjamin Franta implores President Drew Gilpin Faust to be honest about her opposition to divestment.
Mar 19, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson