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Must extinction be forever? Advances in cloning and DNA sequencing have made recreating extinct species a real possibility. Several research groups around the world are now pursuing resurrections—...
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No scientist alive today has done more than Harvard biologist Ed Wilson to promote the understanding of biodiversity and its conservation. At 82, Wilson comes to Aspen after a year that included an...
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Our new normal is a population of 7 billion people living in a world that’s a degree warmer than it was a half centuryago. Melting ice caps, rising seas, droughts and floods, wildlife besieged—the...
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It seems that since the last Aspen Environment Forum no one has solved the problem of how to provide carbonfree energy to 9 billion people by mid-century. But in fascinating new books, two...
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The environmental impacts of natural gas development are real. Public trust for the industry is eroding and its license to operate is at risk. Strong voices —from leading companies responding to the...
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The United Nations Rio+20 Conference will focus on two themes: (a) a green economy in the context of sustainabledevelopment and poverty eradication; and (b) the institutional framework for...
Can change happen on environmental issues if we just learn to communicate about them better? This panel of professional communicators will present their ideas and distinct approaches, then discuss...
Agriculture is the largest, most ecologically disruptive, and most necessary enterprise on Earth. Growing enough food for 9 billion people by mid-century will require its radical transformation. Can...
