Researchers at Yale and Princeton say the scientific community sorely needs a new way to compare the cascading effects of ecosystem loss due to human-induced environmental change to major crises of the past.
For too long, scientists have relied upon...
A group of new scholars hired by the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) is poised to launch a wave of innovative, multidisciplinary research programs aimed at measuring, mitigating, and adapting to the ongoing threat of climate change.
The...
Every day beneath our feet, microbial decomposers tussle with soil minerals over a vast reservoir of carbon stored in the ground — and scientists know almost nothing about how this jostling plays out at the global scale.
Yet that knowledge might prove...
Matthew Eisaman hasn’t had much of a chance yet to explore the nooks and crannies of the Yale campus. His schedule is pretty full trying to help save the planet.
Since arriving in July, Eisaman, an associate professor in the Department of Earth &...
A new scientific model is giving researchers an unprecedented, global look at the activities of clams, worms, and other invertebrate animals that burrow at the bottom of the ocean.
And what they find may offer new insights into how these mud-churning...
Not many people know which way the wind blows better than Alexey Fedorov.
Fedorov, a professor of ocean and atmospheric sciences in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has made a life’s work of sorting through some of the dynamics of atmospheric moisture...