US: Cash for Exxon? Yes. Cash for Climate Change? No. US: Cash for Exxon? Yes. Cash for Climate Change? No.
Obama Administration is poised to provide an Exxon-led consortium with a $3 billion loan while remain uncommitted to financing climate adaptation.
Dec 7, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman
The Physics of Copenhagen The Physics of Copenhagen
Why all the normal political calculations are likely to prove disastrous in Copenhagen.
Dec 7, 2009 / Bill McKibben
Averting a Flop-in-‘Hagen Averting a Flop-in-‘Hagen
As Copenhagen kicks off, pressing questions about emissions cuts and financing for poor countries to deal with climate change are already on the table.
Dec 7, 2009 / Feature / Robert S. Eshelman
COP15: What’s at Stake? COP15: What’s at Stake?
The most important international summit in history? Given what latest scientific reports tell us about the quickening pace of global warming, the sense of urgency driving attention...
Dec 4, 2009 / Feature / Robert S. Eshelman
Climate Fog Climate Fog
Congress is finally ready to address climate change--but the American public seems headed in the opposite direction.
Dec 2, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Day of Action on Climate Crisis Day of Action on Climate Crisis
As world leaders start gathering next week in Copenhagen, the people hit hardest by the climate change crisis -- the global poor -- will continue to be systematically excluded from...
Nov 30, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Tony Kushner on Climate Change Tony Kushner on Climate Change
Kushner speculates on why it's so hard as an artist to write meaningfully about climate change--and why policy change has come so slowly.
Nov 30, 2009 / The Nation Video
Coal Country Coal Country
A stunning film that exposes the devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining to the forests, streams, and communities of Appalachia, Coal Country puts the personal stories of re...
Nov 23, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Gore to ‘Get Crazy’ on Climate Change Gore to ‘Get Crazy’ on Climate Change
Because no one is responding to his more rational pleas, Al Gore has some new, creative ideas that might finally elicit a response.
Nov 23, 2009 / Saturday Night Live
Searching for CCS Searching for CCS
Will carbon capture and sequestration help us avoid runaway climate change?
Nov 19, 2009 / Feature / Holly Wren Spaulding