Environmental Issues

Climate Change Is Here—It’s Too Late for Pessimism

Climate Change Is Here—It’s Too Late for Pessimism Climate Change Is Here—It’s Too Late for Pessimism

Years of Living Dangerously will make you boiling mad about the climate calamity that awaits us in the twenty-first century.  

Apr 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Who’s Really to Blame for the Ravages of Climate Change?

Who’s Really to Blame for the Ravages of Climate Change? Who’s Really to Blame for the Ravages of Climate Change?

In Showtime’s powerful new documentary, Years of Living Dangerously, will the West’s rapacious consumption habits be let off the hook?

Apr 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Brentin Mock

Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma?

Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma? Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma?

Two prominent health groups are demanding that the State Department find out.

Apr 11, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

The World Bank’s Waste of Energy

The World Bank’s Waste of Energy The World Bank’s Waste of Energy

Expanding energy access makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is using a failed scheme—like carbon trading—to pay for it.

Apr 11, 2014 / Janet Redman and Foreign Policy In Focus

Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust

Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust

A large group of Harvard faculty release an open letter to President Drew Gilpin Faust calling forcefully for fossil-fuel divestment.

Apr 10, 2014 / Wen Stephenson

This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against?

This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against? This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against?

A small group of skeptics says rising global temperatures will have a net positive effect on the world. 

Apr 10, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It

America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It

Plagued by poor infrastructure, climate denialism, unregulated fracking wells and nuclear waste sites, the United States is poised to topple itself with self-inflicted wounds.

Apr 8, 2014 / Emanuel Pastreich, John Feffer, and Foreign Policy In Focus

An Important Lesson From Right-Wing Science Dude

An Important Lesson From Right-Wing Science Dude An Important Lesson From Right-Wing Science Dude

Global warming is just one of many lies the ‘scientific community’ tries to impose on us. 

Apr 8, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow

Climate Change Isn’t the Only Thing That Threatens the Whole Planet’s Future

Climate Change Isn’t the Only Thing That Threatens the Whole Planet’s Future Climate Change Isn’t the Only Thing That Threatens the Whole Planet’s Future

An event honoring Peter Weiss for his decades-long fight for nuclear disarmament highlighted the ongoing need for such work.

Apr 4, 2014 / Justine Drennan

Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future

Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future

Student climate activists in Massachusetts win a meeting with Governor Deval Patrick about banning new fossil-fuel infrastructure. But they need more than a meeting.

Apr 1, 2014 / Wen Stephenson

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