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At Yale, Ecosystems, Forests

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine

Jan McAlpine is Director of the United Nations Division on Forests and head of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat in support of all 193 countries in the United Nations.  The UNFF works to bring about the conservation, …

Fisheries, Multimedia

Hauling in the Sound

Hauling in the Sound

In the wake of continually declining lobster stocks in Connecticut, Tahria Sheather follows one of the state's few remaining full-time lobstermen, Mike Theiler, out for a day of hauling to explore what it's really like to be a lobsterman these days in Long Island Sound and capture what is fast becoming an endangered livelihood.
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That was Then. This is Now.

That was Then. This is Now.

The newly opened Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh is the first museum that seeks to catalog man-made biological organisms. The man behind the museum is not a scientist, but an artist, one member of a growing DIY community that is exploring–and making–a new meaning of life as we know it.
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Sage Launches Partnership with PolicyMic: Take Part in Our Sponsored Debate on Arctic Drilling!

Sage Launches Partnership with PolicyMic: Take Part in Our Sponsored Debate on Arctic Drilling!

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Citizens’ Summit to Address Sustainability

Citizens’ Summit to Address Sustainability

A major summit to transform the prospects for sustainability in the United States and Canada will take place on March 24 and 25 at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

The US/Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development will …

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Multimedia: Take a Tour of the Center for PostNatural History

Multimedia: Take a Tour of the Center for PostNatural History

Watch a series of audio slideshows accompanying Jonathan Minard's story on The Center for PostNatural History.
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