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Global Warming at an Intolerable Level »

By Amitabh Pal, May 13, 2013

Our only hope lies in organized efforts to pressure the Obama Administration to do the right thing.read more

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Sometimes You Have to Be There »

By Bill McKibben, January 2013 Issue

The definition of someone at odds with his ideals: a crusader against climate change who spends virtually every day of his life in another airplane, bound for another city, spewing carbon behind him.read more

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Global Warming: Holding Obama’s Feet to the Fire »

By Jason Mark, April 2013 Issue

Green activists press the President to live up to his rhetoric.read more

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Disaster at 400 Parts Per Million

May 13, 2013

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Michael Brune

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My guest this week is Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.read more

This Earth Day, let’s be on Mother Earth’s side »

By Winona LaDuke, April 22, 2013

This Earth Day, let’s quit being extremists.read more

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Wis. Tribal Leader Challenges Walker »

By Rebecca Kemble, April 10, 2013

While stressing collaboration, the tribal chairman held firm on fishing rights and on mining.read more

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Arundhati Roy

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Ruth Conniff, subbing in for Matt Rothschild, interviews Arundhati Roy this week.read more

SF Protesters Tell Obama No Go on Keystone XL »

By Tina Gerhardt, April 4, 2013

They dog him outside a high-priced fundraiser and urge him not to release an “enormous carbon bomb.”read more

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Down the Hole »

By Julie Dermansky, March 27, 2013

A portrait of devastation of a rural Louisiana community from a fracking-induced sinkhole.read more

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How to save water on World Water Day »

By Danielle Nierenberg, March 22, 2013

Friday, March 22, is World Water Day, and here in the United States we must learn to preserve this precious resource.read more

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Walker’s Colossal Giveaway to Mining Co. in Wis. »

By Rebecca Kemble, March 5, 2013

“This bill is the biggest giveaway of resources since the days of the railroad barons.”read more

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Massive Environmental Noncompliance in Wisconsin Mining Industry »

By Kate Prengaman, March 4, 2013

Frac Sand Mines Have Huge Violation Rates.read more

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The Tower that Toppled a Terrible Technology »

By Harvey Wasserman, February 27, 2013

There it stood, 500 feet of insult and injury. And then it crashed to the ground.read more

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A Reporter’s Notebook from Forward on Climate Rally »

By Jason Mark, February 19, 2013

Watching Bill McKibben almost get hit by a car, and talking to activist students from Smith and Spelman, I had the privilege of covering the largest rally against global warming in U.S. history.read more

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