Environment

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

Zombie Nuke Plants Zombie Nuke Plants

Our crumbling atomic power stations and the government agency that loves them.

Nov 19, 2009 / Feature / Christian Parenti

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