Environmental Issues

Poorest Countries Hit Hardest by Climate Change Poorest Countries Hit Hardest by Climate Change

One of the terrible ironies of the climate change crisis is that the nations that have contributed the least to the problem are the ones now working hardest to prevent consequent d...

Feb 6, 2012 / Peter Rothberg

Will the Koch Brothers Profit from Keystone XL? Will the Koch Brothers Profit from Keystone XL?

Why are the Koch Brothers so reluctant to testify before Congress?

Feb 3, 2012 / Brave New Films

Transpartisan Politics on the Plains

Transpartisan Politics on the Plains Transpartisan Politics on the Plains

The Keystone fight showed ordinary Nebraskans their power. Will their unlikely alliance stick?

Jan 31, 2012 / Feature / Madeline Ostrander

Help Peaceful Uprising Rebuild Help Peaceful Uprising Rebuild

The grassroots environmental group Peaceful Uprising recently discovered that it was one of 200 nonprofit projects that have been financially wiped out in an astonishing act of ap...

Jan 26, 2012 / Peter Rothberg

Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government

The coming big storms facing our planet can only be tackled by strong governments.

Jan 26, 2012 / Christian Parenti

Vermont vs. Vermont Yankee

Vermont vs. Vermont Yankee Vermont vs. Vermont Yankee

Should states or the rubber-stamp NRC decide whether nuclear plants continue to operate?

Jan 11, 2012 / Feature / Michael Blanding

Noam Chomsky: How Can the World Confront Peak Oil? Noam Chomsky: How Can the World Confront Peak Oil?

What is the connection between US Pentagon expenditures and the market price of oil?

Jan 9, 2012 / Press Room

Compassion Is Our New Currency Compassion Is Our New Currency

Notes on 2011’s preoccupied hearts and minds.

Dec 22, 2011 / Rebecca Solnit

The Four Occupations of Planet Earth The Four Occupations of Planet Earth

How the occupied became the occupiers.

Dec 19, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt

Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show

Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show

Thanks to a new and frightening breed of climate denier, our chances of avoiding catastrophe just got worse.

Dec 14, 2011 / Mark Hertsgaard

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