Warning: This Gasoline Is Hazardous to Your Planet Warning: This Gasoline Is Hazardous to Your Planet
A new campaign wants to warn you about the perils of climate change by putting labels on gas pumps.
Aug 9, 2013 / Blog / Madeline Ostrander
Frigid and Sweltering: The New Climate Normal Frigid and Sweltering: The New Climate Normal
A new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says weather around the world is becoming more extreme.
Aug 8, 2013 / Blog / Madeline Ostrander
The Third Carbon Age The Third Carbon Age
Don’t for a second imagine we’re heading for an era of renewable energy.
Aug 8, 2013 / Michael T. Klare
Unions and Environmentalists: A Match Made with Difficulty Unions and Environmentalists: A Match Made with Difficulty
How labor and environmentalists in California are finding common cause.
Aug 7, 2013 / Blog / Madeline Ostrander
Thousands Protest Chevron Oil Refinery in Richmond, California Thousands Protest Chevron Oil Refinery in Richmond, California
This weekend, more than 200 people got arrested in a California city known for its heavy-handed oil-industry politics.
Aug 5, 2013 / Blog / Madeline Ostrander
Democratic Voters Say They Want a Revolution on Climate Policy Democratic Voters Say They Want a Revolution on Climate Policy
Do Democrats’ words matter, even if their climate policies are gutless? It depends on what the public says next.
Aug 1, 2013 / Blog / Madeline Ostrander
The Naïveté We Need: Notes on a Climate Action The Naïveté We Need: Notes on a Climate Action
At Sunday’s march on the Brayton Point coal plant in Massachusetts, I was reminded of what it takes for a movement to win.
Jul 30, 2013 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
Fossil Fuel Divestment Is About More Than Reducing Emissions Fossil Fuel Divestment Is About More Than Reducing Emissions
A student architect of the movement to divest from fossil fuel companies assesses the growing campaign's strengths and weaknesses.
Jul 30, 2013 / StudentNation / Ali Roseberry-Polier and StudentNation
Goodbye to All That (Water) Goodbye to All That (Water)
Field notes from a drying west.
Jul 30, 2013 / William deBuys
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How Not to Make a Dust Bowl Worse This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How Not to Make a Dust Bowl Worse
The current drought in the Southwest bears echoes of the 1930s, when Nation writers and illustrators evoked what it was like to have “nice hot dust in your nose, eyes, and th...
Jul 27, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel