Environment

LIVE: Creating a Roadmap for Surviving Climate Change

LIVE: Creating a Roadmap for Surviving Climate Change LIVE: Creating a Roadmap for Surviving Climate Change

Tune in for a conversation with four of our country's top experts on environmental science and policy for an historic panel discussion on the urgent and confounding questions raise...

Oct 24, 2013 / Video / The Nation

Reckoning Comes to Western Coal Country

Reckoning Comes to Western Coal Country Reckoning Comes to Western Coal Country

Decades of government subsidy have cost taxpayers, wrecked the environment and could burn even more carbon than the Keystone pipeline project.

Oct 23, 2013 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter

Questions for Dayton Hyde, Cowboy and Conservationist

Questions for Dayton Hyde, Cowboy and Conservationist Questions for Dayton Hyde, Cowboy and Conservationist

In a new documentary, Running Wild, an 88-year-old rancher leads the charge against a proposed uranium mine, while the fate of wild horses hangs in the balance.

Oct 22, 2013 / Sasha Abramsky

One Year After Sandy—Ignoring Climate Change at Our Own Peril

One Year After Sandy—Ignoring Climate Change at Our Own Peril One Year After Sandy—Ignoring Climate Change at Our Own Peril

Wendell Berry’s writing and poetry provides a way forward one year after Superstorm Sandy.

Oct 22, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Wendell Berry’s Humanism and Wisdom for Our Times

This year's winner of the Roosevelt Institute’s Freedom Medal is as adept detailing the mechanics of a mine-triggered landslide as he is at critiquing the dangerous combi...

Oct 19, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Brown Divest Coal: An Honest Vote on Divestment

Brown Divest Coal: An Honest Vote on Divestment Brown Divest Coal: An Honest Vote on Divestment

The Brown Divest Coal Campaign is asking Brown University to divest from any holdings it has in America's fifteen largest coal companies and is hopeful for a “yes” ...

Oct 18, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

How Congress Just Stuck It to Monsanto

How Congress Just Stuck It to Monsanto How Congress Just Stuck It to Monsanto

Farmers, civil liberties and food safety advocates had worried that a funding resolution would extend the rider, which crippled oversight over GMOs. 

Oct 17, 2013 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter

Snapshot: Waiting for the Apocalypse Snapshot: Waiting for the Apocalypse

Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell “sunbathe” on the edge of a fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen, 2007. Arctic sea ice partially recovered this year, after a series of lows and last year’s all-time-record melt, but climatologists predict relentless long-term decline.

Oct 16, 2013 / Editorial / François Lenoir

The Time To Divest: A Response to Harvard President Drew Faust

The Time To Divest: A Response to Harvard President Drew Faust The Time To Divest: A Response to Harvard President Drew Faust

Divestment is a moral and political strategy to expose the reckless business model of the fossil fuel industry that puts our world at risk.

Oct 15, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin, Hannah Borowsky, and StudentNation

Fossil Fuel Euphoria

Fossil Fuel Euphoria Fossil Fuel Euphoria

A new elite consensus is forming around the strategic advantages of expanded oil and gas production.

Oct 15, 2013 / Michael T. Klare

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