Follow along in real time as 180 scientists, leaders, advocates and entrepreneurs gather to lay the groundwork for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.
The West: land of frontier aspirations, gold-pan booms and dot-com busts. Things are bigger out West, we're told, and maybe they're better too.
We're creating a new series of photo essays about issues affecting the North American West. If you’ve got a photo to share or a tale to tell – we want to see it and we’d love to hear it.
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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 captured. These winning photos represent images from more than a dozen tropical countries and depict forests in transition, solitary travelers and unique animals, indigenous communities and sweeping, epic landscapes. Enjoy!
Today is 7 billion day, the day on which world population officially hits 7 billion. In honor of this momentous occasion, Sage did a quick and decidedly non-comprehensive roundup of the news–not only from this year, but also from the years of future and previous population milestones. Rev up the time machine!