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Articles and Prose
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Paying Their Way: Why Sharks Are Worth More Alive
The shark fin industry is worth billions of dollars every year. How can shark lovers compete against that kind of capital?
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The International Society of Tropical Foresters 2013 Photo Competition
Warm your bones and buoy your spirit with the year’s best tropical photographs, brought to you by the Yale Chapter of the ISTF.
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Can the Climate Movement Learn From Its Mistakes?
A new analysis by Yale law student Nate Loewentheil diagnoses the failures of cap-and-trade in 2010. Listen up, climate organizers.
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Rowing For Revolution: Can Roz Savage Change the World?
Roz Savage was a management consultant in London when she was struck by a crazy idea: she would row around the world to spark environmental…
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A Letter to Sage’s Readers: Thanks for Making 2012 So Great
And thanks in advance for making 2013 even better.
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Carrying the Torch: Yale’s Role at COP18
Yale President Richard C. Levin once asked, “How do we prevent the continued consumption of fossil fuels from warming our planet to the point that ecosystems…
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When a Tree Falls in the Amazon
Brazil’s environmental laws have come a long way since the 1980’s. But that doesn’t mean the Amazon is well-protected.
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“We Are All Neighbors with Joined Doors”: Climate Justice and the UNFCCC
ednesday, December 5th: deep within the bizarre landscape of minarets, oil refineries that stretch out into the sandy horizon, and a wildly ad hoc, opulent,…
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The Hunt for Accountability, From Rio to Doha
Before I started my graduate studies in August, I was campaigning incessantly with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to drive the Rio+20 Earth Summit process towards…
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Paleo-what?: Introducing the Ancient Climate Record into Modern Negotiations
s the COP18 in Doha cranks along into its second week, onlookers follow the proceedings and ponder how the results of continued negotiation will affect…
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The Lightning of Catatumbo
It’s no secret that the world’s corals are threatened by warm, acidic oceans. Are subsistence fishermen part of the problem, or part of the solution?
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New Zealand’s ultimate “COP Out” of the Kyoto Protocol
New Zealand’s government announced in a statement on Nov.9 that it is not in the country’s interests to be “stuck in the Kyoto space for another eight…