Arresting Fear with Hope: Protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline
Yale F&ES alumni Eliza Cava (MEM '11) tells the story of her arrest at the White House protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline--and the surprising hope that she brought away with her.
View ArticleOn the Path to Regulating Climate Change: The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit
Should Cost-Benefit Analysis be used in the generation of climate change policy? Yale Environmental Economics Professor Matthew Kotchen and Yale Environmental Law Professor Douglas Kysar debate.
View ArticleIn its final hours, COP17 gets Occupied
Perhaps it was the spotty Internet service, two weeks subsisting on pre-sealed sandwiches, or just maybe the fact that on the heels of the latest Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban, the world...
View ArticleOp-ed: Local Climate Solutions as Christian Calling
think you have to love something before you’ll fight for it. At least that’s been my experience growing up in Minnesota. My friends and I built snow castles in the winter, chased rabbits in the spring...
View ArticleSage Briefs: Wrong Place, Wrong Clime–Will Marine Sanctuaries Falter as...
he golden promise of marine protected areas – ocean swaths set aside for the management of natural and cultural marine resources – may prove empty by mid-century. As global climate warms, so does ocean...
View ArticleChange Gamers
Video games are maturing. Where players once practiced delivering newspapers or dispatching demons, they are now increasingly being asked to tackle real-world problems like climate change and war....
View ArticleIf You Love Your Electrons, Set Them Free
For a nation so devoted to capitalism, our energy markets are heavily rigged to price out clean-tech. If a carbon tax is out of the question for now, mechanisms to favor CO2-free electrons may lie in...
View ArticleWager for Rain
For decades, Southwestern scientists have tried to engineer their way out of a chronic water problem. Are their best solutions any less an act of prayer than a rain dance?
View ArticleVoters Care About Climate, But Will Candidates Notice?
Independents are in favor of climate action, and most voters –– even Republicans! –– are in favor of solutions like revenue-neutral carbon taxes.
View ArticleFighting for Climate Justice
SAGE Magazine sits down with Professor Maxine Burkett to discuss the growing numbers of "climate refugees."
View ArticleDispatches from Inner Mongolia: Part One
Colin Brown takes to the Inner Mongolian steppe, with an eye to the effects of climate change.
View ArticleBeyond the North Slope: Oil drills and discord off Alaska’s Arctic coast
Amy Mount, winner of our 2014 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, journeys to Alaska's Chukchi Sea to investigate the debate over offshore drilling and the stakes for subsistence whalers.
View ArticleMoses and the Marines
Indigenous Yup'ik Alaskans grapple with the relocation of their town as permafrost thaws and riverbanks erode.
View ArticleFacing Fear in the Heart of Alaska
Filmmaker Christina Stone hikes across melting glaciers and descends into their chasms to confront climate change head on and tell its story in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
View ArticleClimate Change in Northern Pakistan: A Family Journey
The stunning views at every turn along the undulating road from Islamabad to Naran set the scene for a climate change journey through the communities of Northern Pakistan.
View ArticleFarmers Adapt to a Changing Climate in Burkina Faso
A photojournalist captures the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Burkina Faso, and the innovative solutions these communities have responded with in adjusting to a new climate reality.
View ArticleSage Briefs: Wrong Place, Wrong Clime–Will Marine Sanctuaries Falter as...
he golden promise of marine protected areas – ocean swaths set aside for the management of natural and cultural marine resources – may prove empty by mid-century. As global climate warms, so does ocean...
View ArticleChange Gamers
Video games are maturing. Where players once practiced delivering newspapers or dispatching demons, they are now increasingly being asked to tackle real-world problems like climate change and war....
View ArticleIf You Love Your Electrons, Set Them Free
For a nation so devoted to capitalism, our energy markets are heavily rigged to price out clean-tech. If a carbon tax is out of the question for now, mechanisms to favor CO2-free electrons may lie in...
View ArticleWager for Rain
For decades, Southwestern scientists have tried to engineer their way out of a chronic water problem. Are their best solutions any less an act of prayer than a rain dance?
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