Environment

Robin Hahnel makes a plea to the environmental movement as she writes that they are “ making a serious strategic mistake by categorically rejecting international carbon trading.”

The idea of using nuclear power in the tar sands has taken flight once again in our own era, though this time disguised as a Green Energy solution.

The secretary of state has been stumbling and bloviating from one crisis to the next, one debacle to another, surrounded by the well-crafted imagery of diplomatic effectiveness.

Andrea Flynn: This is nothing short of a crisis situation.

The fossil-fuel industry has invested billions of dollars in propaganda - funding phony ‘scientists’ and bankrolling politicians - to confuse the public about the threat from global warming.

The current crisis of American democracy centers on the craziness that has engulfed the Republican Party, once considered home of the responsible ‘adults’ but now more like an island …

Exploring the scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses.

ALEC describes itself as the largest voluntary group of state legislators in the country, but it is really a corporate-financed lobby that facilitates getting special interest legislation into the …

With only five US Representatives in attendance, a Pakistani school teacher and his two children brought tears to the House this week describing the drone attack that killed his …

Naughty Leopards, Sassy Space Girls, and Warrior Ninjas: What do our Halloween costumes reveal about gender in our society? An exploration.