Environmental Issues

How to Rehouse the American Dream How to Rehouse the American Dream

Our car-dependent, suburban, homeowner culture is no longer affordable. An exhibit at MoMA examines what to do about it.

Mar 21, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Alex Ulam

90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like

90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like 90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like

The last days of winter and the first days of spring have seen hundreds of record-breaking high temperatures. Worry.

Mar 20, 2012 / Bill McKibben

Romney Joins Gas Price Pander Romney Joins Gas Price Pander

Mitt says his opponents “don't understand the economy.” Neither does he. 

Mar 20, 2012 / Blog / Ben Adler

Jeffrey Sachs: Population Controller? (VIDEO) Jeffrey Sachs: Population Controller? (VIDEO)

Jeff Sachs, who promises he’d lead the World Bank to a new era, proposes more of the same—plus population control. That’s taking us to a new era of Malthus.

Mar 16, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders

No More Subsidies for Fossil Fuel No More Subsidies for Fossil Fuel

There's no way to move to renewable energy sources like wind and solar without ending the subsidies to an industry that's already earning record-breaking profits.

Mar 16, 2012 / Blog / Peter Rothberg

Occupy Climate Change Occupy Climate Change

The same corporations that destroyed the economy are wrecking the planet. Occupy should do something about that.

Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher

Japan’s New Antinuke Activism Japan’s New Antinuke Activism

After the Fukushima disaster, a new generation has drawn inspiration from the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.

Mar 7, 2012 / Editorial / Eric Ozawa

Lessons From Fukushima, One Year Later

Lessons From Fukushima, One Year Later Lessons From Fukushima, One Year Later

No matter how appalling the catastrophe, the nuclear industry will insist on the safety of nuclear power.

Mar 7, 2012 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn

America’s Fossil Fuel Fever

America’s Fossil Fuel Fever America’s Fossil Fuel Fever

Costly technologies have opened up new sources in the Western Hemisphere—but they pose immense environmental dangers.

Feb 29, 2012 / Feature / Michael T. Klare

Nuclear Power? Germany Says ‘Nein Danke’ Nuclear Power? Germany Says ‘Nein Danke’

The transition to a low-carbon future is ambitious and, so far, has been remarkably smooth.

Feb 29, 2012 / Feature / Paul Hockenos

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