Environmental Issues

The Politics of Global Climate Change The Politics of Global Climate Change

Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya on the UN deliberations and what can be expected at the climate summit in December.

Sep 23, 2009 / GRITtv

Scientific Integrity Lost on America’s Parks Scientific Integrity Lost on America’s Parks

Though Ken Salazar has vowed to clean up the mess at the Interior Department, his selection for director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, only compounds it.

Sep 15, 2009 / Feature / Tess Elliott

Factoring People Into Climate Change Factoring People Into Climate Change

More and more experts now say that climate change and population increase should be viewed together. Local politicians in developing countries often try to heat up the issue.

Sep 14, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette

EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal

An important announcement suggests that environmental justice may be coming to the Appalachian coalfields.

Sep 11, 2009 / Feature / Jeff Biggers

People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down

From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.

Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

Inside the Politics of Climate Change Inside the Politics of Climate Change

The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin discusses the prospect of climate change legislation in 2009: Will the 'ACES' bill, passed in the House, also pass the Senate?

Jul 28, 2009 / The Nation Video

The G-8 Abdicates The G-8 Abdicates

To prevent catastrophic climate change, wealthy nations must pony up on emissions cuts and subsidies to the developing world.

Jul 15, 2009 / The Editors

Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump? Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?

Is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?

Jul 14, 2009 / Feature / Michael T. Klare

Fuel Fuel

A new documentary explores how alternative and sustainable energies can reduce our country's and the world's addictive dependence on fossil fuels.

Jul 14, 2009 / Books & the Arts / YouTube

Shades of Green Shades of Green

Washington and Beijing should launch an efficiency revolution, the quickest path to large emissions cuts.

Jul 1, 2009 / Mark Hertsgaard

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