Environment

Avoiding a Climate-Change Apocalypse

Avoiding a Climate-Change Apocalypse Avoiding a Climate-Change Apocalypse

With Hurricane Sandy still on the public’s mind, Obama should take action on carbon emissions and disaster response.

Jan 8, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Obama Versus Physics Obama Versus Physics

Why climate change won’t wait for the president.

Jan 7, 2013 / Bill McKibben

Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Wraps Up First Semester on 192 Campuses

Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Wraps Up First Semester on 192 Campuses Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Wraps Up First Semester on 192 Campuses

A new campaign to push colleges and universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry spread like wildfire this past semester.

Jan 2, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Remembering Becky Tarbotton

Remembering Becky Tarbotton Remembering Becky Tarbotton

Brilliant, young, dynamic, female environmental visionaries are hard to find, so this loss is enormous.

Jan 1, 2013 / Peter Rothberg

2013 Is Year Zero for Climate Change

2013 Is Year Zero for Climate Change 2013 Is Year Zero for Climate Change

The victories of 2012 demand we double down in the fight against global warming. 

Dec 26, 2012 / Rebecca Solnit

David Koch Now Taking Aim at Hurricane Sandy Victims David Koch Now Taking Aim at Hurricane Sandy Victims

Having lost the election, the Koch political machine, Americans for Prosperity, now takes aim at Hurricane Sandy relief legislation.

Dec 22, 2012 / Lee Fang

Middlebury to Consider Fossil Fuel Divestment Middlebury to Consider Fossil Fuel Divestment

In the wake of a high-profile student protest and amid a growing university movement to combat climate change, Middlebury College announced that it would initiate steps to address ...

Dec 20, 2012 / StudentNation / Bronwyn Oatley and Kelsey Collins

Crime and Crisis: Think ‘We’ Not ‘They’ Crime and Crisis: Think ‘We’ Not ‘They’

Two interviews have new resonance since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

Dec 20, 2012 / Laura Flanders

New ALEC Documents Show Regulatory Capture in Action

New ALEC Documents Show Regulatory Capture in Action New ALEC Documents Show Regulatory Capture in Action

ALEC is playing lobbyist match-maker with state regulators to push an anti-environmental agenda.

Dec 19, 2012 / Lee Fang

Elizabeth Royte: It’s Time to Talk about Food and Fracking

Elizabeth Royte: It’s Time to Talk about Food and Fracking Elizabeth Royte: It’s Time to Talk about Food and Fracking

Ranchers and farmers working the land near fracking sites are seeing their livestock suffer, and their own health deteriorate.

Dec 18, 2012 / WNYC

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