After several weeks of traveling, I’ve finally arrived in Sitka, Alaska, where I’m working with the US Forest Service in the Tongass National Forest.
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Will Nanotubes Create an Environmental Health Crisis?
Carbon nanotubes are among the most extraordinary materials ever constructed, capable of revolutionizing industries from solar energy to space travel. But for all their futuristic promise, nanotubes pose a grave environmental health threat, and have been linked to lung cancer. Will nanotubes change the world for better, or for worse?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]