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International Society of Tropical Foresters 2012 Photo Contest
The winning photographs from this year’s International Society of Tropical Foresters Conference Photo Contest are as diverse as the tropical regions in which they were…
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The Limits of Civil Disobedience: An Interview with Director Marshall Curry
Documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry has said that he likes to “present people’s best arguments and let those smack into each other.” His third and most…
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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.
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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?
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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…
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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…
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Photos from the final day – is agreement coming?
It’s Friday, December 9th – the last day, ostensibly, of the COP17. Is a new legally-binding instrument between all major emitters to reduce greenhouse gas…
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Bridging the Emissions Gap – The Clock Is Ticking!
new and timely synthesis report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was formally launched at COP17 today, giving those concerned with our world’s future…
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Speaking but not listening – early failures of South Africa’s Indaba approach?
– This editorial is re-posted from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies official COP 17 blog, found here. It was originally titled, “Speaking…
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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…
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Occupy COP17 & the Women’s Rural Assembly
Protestors have gathered outside the fenced perimeter of the massive COP17 conference center to encourage world leaders to keep the Kyoto Protocol alive and, in…
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South Africa and the Climate Conference accelerator
The Yale student delegation is staying in a hotel as far away from Durban, and the COP17 conference center, as physically possible. A muddy trek…
