Keystone XL: Beholden to the Highest Bidder
The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has illustrated the need for a comprehensive U.S. energy policy. Joseph Edgar and Brian Marrs explain how we can break away from oil.
Keystone XL: Beholden to the Highest Bidder
The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has illustrated the need for a comprehensive U.S. energy policy. Joseph Edgar and Brian Marrs explain how we can break away from oil.
Night Swimming in the Amazon
“The Peruvian Amazon never fails to impose quandaries.”
Conservation scientist Sarah Federman describes one night’s mishap near a far-flung research station in the isolated Peruvian Amazon.
On the Ground
Fish Tales: An Interview with Author Paul Greenberg
The author of the acclaimed book, “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food,” on fishing, writing, and healing the world’s oceans.
Arts & Culture
The Anti-Sushi (of Miya’s Sushi)
The concept of “sustainable seafood” has become an oxymoron, but not at Miya’s Sushi, where chef Bun Lai is tossing out old standards in favor of the local, the safe, the clean — the under-appreciated.
Ideas
The Challenge of Maintaining Ecosystem Services
n 1997, New York City decided to allocate $1.5 billion to preserve and restore the Catskill/Delaware Watershed, an ecosystem over 100 miles outside of the city limits. The venture was more than an act of ecological good will; it was a savvy investment in the well being of New York City’s 8 million residents. Unlike many cities, the five boroughs—and [...]
At Yale
On the Path to Regulating Climate Change: The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit
Should Cost-Benefit Analysis be used in the generation of climate change policy? Yale Environmental Economics Professor Matthew Kotchen and Yale Environmental Law Professor Douglas Kysar debate.
Briefs
Streaks, Leaps, Maelstroms, and Murmurations
A group of starlings is called a murmuration. A group of tigers is called a streak (or an ambush). Why?
Blogs
In its final hours, COP17 gets Occupied
Perhaps it was the spotty Internet service, two weeks subsisting on pre-sealed sandwiches, or just maybe the fact that on the heels of the latest Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban, the world seems no closer to enacting climate change solutions. But Friday evening, hundreds of NGO delegates had had enough. In yet another reminder that the fate of [...]
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