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Bringing the Arctic and the Rainforest to New York's Climate Week

September 22, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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arctic, arcticcommision, arcticfisheries, arcticseaice, climateweek, copenhagencountdown, deforestation, G20, globalwarming, polarbears, princecharles, rainforest, unitednations

Climate Week has begun, and I am already inspired by the sense of momentum. From the U.N. Secretary General's Summit on Climate Change on Tuesday to the G20 Summit in Pittsburg at the end of the week, world leaders are...continued

The Arctic Ocean: A Gold Rush with No Sheriff in Town

July 28, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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arctic, arcticcommision, arcticfisheries, arcticocean, aspeninstitute, globalwarming, nationalgeographicendeavor, oiladdiction, oildrilling, polarbears

In the past few days, I have seen new coverage of the oil and gas boom that is about to hit the Arctic Ocean now that global warming is melting its seas. Just two weeks ago, while I sailed through...continued