Environment & Health

James Boyce: Cost-benefit analysis of carbon emissions has shortcomings.

Arnie Gundersen: Japan's PM claims Fukushima is safe but the nuclear disaster is underfunded and lacks transparency, causing the public to remain in the dark.

The action marked the culmination of months of preparation, as organizers in Montana decided on the best way to bring direct action against coal transportation to a new level.

Fukushima: Possibly the end of civilization, but whatever.

Not only has the question of strategy often been given short shrift, but even a full discussion of appropriate tactics has been neglected.

There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focussed on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4.

When Philadelphia public school students returned to class earlier this month, they were attending a district wracked by the firing of thousands of employees and the shuttering of 23 …

When residents with health symptoms seemed to be ignored by government regulators, Advocacy group Earthworks made startling discoveries about the effects of fracking on a Texas neighborhood.

Students at Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U) show connection between climate crisis and global human rights violations through provocative art exhibit and demand change in school investments.

Subhankar Banerjee: The Obama administration's focus on oil extraction and emphasis on fracking is not addressing climate change.