Environmental Issues

Chávez’s Citizen Diplomacy Chávez’s Citizen Diplomacy

Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.

Dec 17, 2006 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

Chávez’s Citizen Diplomacy Chávez’s Citizen Diplomacy

Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.

Dec 14, 2006 / Liza Featherstone

Big Win for Enviros Big Win for Enviros

America's environmentalists won big in the midterm elections. But can they make real progress on climate change by 2008 and beyond?

Nov 26, 2006 / Mark Hertsgaard

A New Idea Grows in Alabama A New Idea Grows in Alabama

Poverty, race and obesity have a lot in common. In Alabama an underfunded federal program addresses the problem by providing fresh produce to low-income residents and seniors.

Nov 9, 2006 / Feature / Mark Winne

Return to Chelyabinsk Return to Chelyabinsk

A G-8 plan to ramp up nuclear energy is defended as a necessary response to global warming. But the nuclear waste it generates will hurt people and the planet.

Oct 26, 2006 / Mark Hertsgaard

Greasing the Skids Greasing the Skids

OK, market forces control oil prices. But market forces--with a lot of push from Republicans--are driving down the price of gas. And you can be sure they'll rise again after the el...

Oct 18, 2006 / Nomi Prins

Gas Pump Politics Gas Pump Politics

Will Democrats lose 50,000 votes every time the price of gasoline drops? If so, don't blame the GOP (they don't have that much power). Blame instead the greed of US consumers.

Oct 3, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Unnatural Disaster Unnatural Disaster

Three new books reappraise the massive earthquake of 1906, which was felt across an area of 400,000 miles and leveled much of San Francisco.

Sep 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Ari Kelman

CA Leads on Climate CA Leads on Climate

California's global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.

Sep 14, 2006 / Mark Hertsgaard

Honey, We Killed the Planet Honey, We Killed the Planet

As the generation of power brokers over 40 continues to blow off global warming, our dependence on a waning supply of oil will create a miserable future for their children and gran...

Aug 30, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

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