Environmental Activism

Asking for a Friend: I’m in Love With a Republican—What Do I Do?

Asking for a Friend: I’m in Love With a Republican—What Do I Do? Asking for a Friend: I’m in Love With a Republican—What Do I Do?

Liza answers a reader in love, and another who wants to blow up the system that screwed him over.

Dec 3, 2015 / Asking for a Friend / Liza Featherstone

To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents

To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents

Once something threatens who you are and what you love, you have no choice but to take action.

Dec 1, 2015 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin

The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming

The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming

Global temperatures would still rise to 2.7 to 3.5 C above the pre-industrial level.

Nov 30, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard

Making the Paris Climate Talks Count

Making the Paris Climate Talks Count Making the Paris Climate Talks Count

At the bottom of all the jargon that will be thrown about this week’s climate conference are human lives.

Nov 29, 2015 / Video / Naomi Klein

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Letters From the December 14, 2015, Issue Letters From the December 14, 2015, Issue

Sanders, Denmark, and Debs… tourists at the end of life… all that jive… food for the mind… one side of the story…

Nov 25, 2015 / Letters / Our Readers

A Lesson for Paris Climate Talks: Follow the Activists

A Lesson for Paris Climate Talks: Follow the Activists A Lesson for Paris Climate Talks: Follow the Activists

At home and abroad, the grassroots wing of the climate movement is disrupting politics as usual. We should pay attention.

Nov 19, 2015 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard

Grand Canyon

This Conservation Program Is the Most Successful in US History. Why Are Republicans Destroying It? This Conservation Program Is the Most Successful in US History. Why Are Republicans Destroying It?

The Land and Water Conservation Fund is just the first of several vaunted nature and wildlife programs the GOP wants to kill.

Nov 18, 2015 / Jimmy Tobias

WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice

WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice

Movement leaders identify their goals as political, but they don’t see the movement as having the political power to achieve those goals.

Nov 16, 2015 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin

Hillary Clinton Lands a Key Endorsement From the League of Conservation Voters

Hillary Clinton Lands a Key Endorsement From the League of Conservation Voters Hillary Clinton Lands a Key Endorsement From the League of Conservation Voters

In its earliest endorsement ever in a presidential race, a key environmental group backs the Democratic front-runner.

Nov 9, 2015 / John Nichols

China drought

The Future of Climate Change Is Widespread Civil War The Future of Climate Change Is Widespread Civil War

Failure to cap carbon emissions will not only bring on climate shocks, but also worldwide instability, insurrection, and warfare.

Nov 3, 2015 / Michael T. Klare

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