For three decades the United States has shamefully failed to ratify the UN’s Law of the Sea. Now more than ever, it’s time for America to get with the program.
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Climate and the Coast: Learning to Love Filipino Culture
Maybe it was the first time I rode on a sakayan, a handmade pontoon boat; or perhaps it was when I sat down to hire my research assistant; or possibly it happened when I first saw bags of live, brightly colored reef fish being offloaded from boats into a truck, destined for sale to a pet store: somewhere along the way, […]
Perspectives from the People’s Land: First Nations, Forestry, and Ferocious Flies
Have you ever been in northern Quebec in bug season? Black flies, horse flies, deer flies, moose flies, then a fifteen minute “bug window” – usually just before dusk, during the changing of the guard – followed by mosquitoes and no-see-ums. I’ve spent my summers in northern Quebec canoeing and portaging, splitting firewood and scouting rapids, and the bugs have […]
Preserving Subsistence: A Land Use Battle in an Alaskan Wilderness
Preserving Subsistence was originally published on May 6, 2012 in These Fifty States, a Yale College publication devoted to capturing different aspects of place across America. Find them at thesefiftystates.org. Ricky Ashby is not an easy man to track down. He has no phone, no office door, no email address. He lives alone in a cabin on the Noatak River in […]
How the West Was Won: The Sage + Westies Photo Essay
What happens when a magazine and a student group collaborate to put out a call for images that tell stories about the North American West? Inboxes rapidly fill up with muskoxen and lots of people gain an excuse to drink Oregon beer while looking at mind-blowing pictures. A selection of photos from beyond the 100th meridian.
Should Japan Turn Its Nuclear Reactors Back On? A Sage + PolicyMic Forum
With 130 million people in need of power (but 80% of the population against nuclear power), should Japan end the moratorium currently keeping 54 nuclear reactors closed? You tell us….
OP-ED: Paths to Sustainability–A Response to Dylan Walsh’s Open Letter to FES
This is a response to a recent op-ed by Dylan Walsh. To read Walsh’s op-ed click here. hat kinds of people does the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies hope to send out into the world? This is the question that, although he didn’t ask it, seemed to underlie Dylan Walsh’s provocative and poignant op-ed. The scene, so familiar […]
An Unsettling Experiment: Dispersants in the Gulf
On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, kicking off a long summer of videos of crude gushing into the sea. Two years later, the offshore oil business is booming, and conventional wisdom has it that the Gulf has fully recovered from the disaster. Not so fast, says Sandy Aylesworth, in an in-depth investigative report.
Dear Earth: Happy 400th Birthday! Love, Groupon.
Ah, Earth Day: an opportunity for the country’s worst polluters to rise, phoenix-like, from puddles of industrial effluent and recreate themselves as environmentalists. An opportunity for America’s retailers to shamelessly hijack the words “eco-friendly” and “sustainable” and repurpose them to quicken the pulse of fetishistic shoppers. An opportunity for a free canvas shopping bag with every purchase!
I was hardly surprised when Groupon sent me an email proffering Earth
Review: The Whale
arrived at the theater a little early. There were good seats left at the front, and the crowd – an older, calmer population than I am used to – was chatting and milling about contentedly. I expected this to be a routine assignment: show up, watch a movie, write a digestible review. What I didn’t know then, as I settled […]
OP-ED: European Union Must Strengthen Laws for Shipwreck Cleanup
Adele Faure and Anthony Moffa are J.D. candidates at Yale Law School, and Sandy Aylesworth and Ben Goldfarb are Master’s candidates at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. As part of Yale’s Environmental Protection Clinic, the students are partnering with Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation to compel the removal of the Sea Diamond wreck. This month they will […]
A Dandy in the Woods: photos from the Yale archives
He is alone amongst the trees. Obscured by them. A solitary well-buffed young man. A forester. A Yalie.