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Mark Hertsgaard

San Francisco

Environment Correspondent and Editor at The Nation

Exec Dir @CoveringClimate, enviro correspondent @thenation, author (Big Red's Mercy, HOT, Earth Odyssey, On Bended Knee, The Beatles) and lucky dad.

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Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | thenation.com | Mark Hertsgaard

    June 5, 2025 Sleepwalking Through the Climate EmergencyA shrewd observer of authoritarianism warns against normalizing what should shock us. Edit Ad Policy A firefighter monitors the spread of the Auto Fire in Oxnard, outside of Los Angeles, California, on January 13, 2025. (Etienne Laurent / AFP via Getty Images) This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation strengthening coverage of the climate story.

  • 4 weeks ago | thenation.com | Mark Hertsgaard

    Environment / May 29, 2025 The False Promise of Nuclear PowerA new book by Joe Romm explains why nuclear is not much of a climate solution. Ad Policy A dollar invested in renewables delivers much more carbon-free electricity than a dollar invested in nuclear, writes Mark Hertsgaard.

  • 1 month ago | thenation.com | Mark Hertsgaard

    Environment / May 22, 2025 Warren Buffett Is a Climate-Wrecker Los Angeles Times climate columnist Sammy Roth scoops his business beat colleagues. Warren Buffett Is a Climate-WreckerLos Angeles Times climate columnist Sammy Roth scoops his business beat colleagues. Ad Policy Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, tours the exhibition floor prior to the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2014.

  • 1 month ago | thenation.com | Mark Hertsgaard

    May 15, 2025 The Fingerprints Climate Change Leaves Behind A top climate attribution scientist helps journalists understand and explain them. Ad Policy People carry a body, covered with a blanket, as they conduct a search and rescue operation after the second bombardment of the Israeli army in the last 24 hours at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza City, Gaza, on November 1, 2023.

  • 1 month ago | thenation.com | Mark Hertsgaard |Bill McKibben

    Environment / April 30, 2025 We Can Run the World Without Fossil FuelsBy lighting a green lantern in Boston’s Old North Church, environmentalists announce a new global day of action—Sun Day—to celebrate a world that no longer needs fossil fuels. Ad Policy A green lantern was lit in the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston to announce a day of action—Sun Day—to celebrate that we no longer need fossil fuels.

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Mark Hertsgaard
Mark Hertsgaard @markhertsgaard
11 Jun 25

RT @speedandscale: Research from @kylepope & @markhertsgaard shows that 89% of the world wants stronger climate action, and most people don…

Mark Hertsgaard
Mark Hertsgaard @markhertsgaard
10 Jun 25

Also check out #89PercentProject organized by @CoveringClimate where dozens of the world's leading news organizations are reporting on the overwhelming global majority of people who want governments to take stronger climate action

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Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR

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Mark Hertsgaard
Mark Hertsgaard @markhertsgaard
10 Jun 25

RT @FranceskAlbs: What is left to say, really.