The Tongass is the final remnant of a once-vast West Coast rainforest. Now timber companies are gunning to harvest even this enclave of old-growth wilderness.
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The Cleanest Catch
Connecticut oyster farmer Brendan Smith might just redefine what it means to fish sustainably. That is, if the hurricanes don’t get him first.
Reading the bones: In the field with a depredation detective
Big cats kill a lot of livestock in India’s Kahna Reserve, provoking local herders to retaliate. Jennie Miller is using forensics, ecology, and satellite mapping to reduce the escalating tension between large predators and people.
The Adventures of Shark Stanley and Friends: Official Book Release
Shark Stanley was already the star of a grassroots conservation campaign and an international celebrity. Now he’s the hero of a children’s book, too. Sage Magazine takes an exclusive sneak peek.
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?
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.
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.
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 awareness. Now that she’s back, has Savage’s “movement moment” arrived?
A Letter to Sage’s Readers: Thanks for Making 2012 So Great
And thanks in advance for making 2013 even better.
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 are destroyed, food supplies are threatened, and rising sea levels force hundreds of millions to relocate?” Last month in Doha, the world sought to find an answer at the 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference, […]
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.
“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, and strangely 1970’s-going-on-the-future skyline, the annual UNFCCC conferencemoves along in its second week. In these last days of COP 18, much still remains open and on the table. Itappears that there will be a second commitment […]