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2024
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Expanding marine reserves will redistribute global fishing effort

Harrison Tasoff

The Current

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Five questions on how a conservation market could protect the world’s oceans

Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Christopher Costello, and Andrew J. Plantinga

IGCC

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emLab July 2024 newsletter

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A conservation market could incentivize global ocean protection

Harrison Tasoff

The Current

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Could market forces be harnessed to rescue habitat worldwide? Some scientists think so.

Warren Cornwall

Anthropocene Magazine

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A novel approach to tracking conservation reveals more areas may be conserved than currently accounted for

Harrison Tasoff

The Current

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Mapping human activity at sea from space

Global Fishing Watch

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emLab June 2024 newsletter

The four stages (circles) of the clean-cooking transition

Clean-cooking energy transitions in Ghana – behind the conceptual framework

Linnea Graham, Sulemana Watara Abubakari, & Abhishek Kar

Springer Nature Research Communities

Figure I Heterogeneity in the Mortality-Temperature Relationship

Timeless principles for better figure design

Gabriel Englander

World Bank Blogs

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emLab May 2024 newsletter

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Professor Olivier Deschenes wins the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal

UC Santa Barbara Economics Department

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Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed indigenous land

Elisângela Mendonça, Aramís Castro, Andrew Wasley

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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emLab April 2024 newsletter

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California farmers could save a lot of water — but their profits would suffer

Rachel Becker

CalMatters

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California 'overlooking' ways to save water, study suggests

Robyn White

Newsweek