Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 opened the Yale Climate Conference this week by comparing the threat of rising global temperatures to the danger posed by a rogue state acquiring nuclear weapons.
While our political leaders rightly respond...
Leo Tolstoy, his long beard white, stood beside a horse in a photograph on a screen under the Yale Farm’s Lazarus Pavilion. A second image showed an aerial photograph of the author’s estate, Yasnaya Polyana. A bungee cord tied to a cinderblock anchored...
Speaking to former Secretary of State John Kerry at the Yale School of Management, former Vice President Al Gore warned that before Americans can effectively address climate change, they must repair the nation’s political system.
“In order to fix the...
When Yale economist Joseph Shapiro was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about a decade ago, he attempted a cost-benefit analysis of the 1972 Clean Water Act — the federal law governing water quality in the country’s rivers,...
Susan Ernst says she feels closest to God while spending time in nature.
“When I say nature, I don’t mean the wilderness,” said Ernst, a horticulturist and artist, while seated in the barn at the Yale Landscape Lab. “Right here is nature. I grew up in...
Thousands of years before humans began burning fossil fuels, they had indelibly altered the natural world through foraging, herding animals, and farming, according to a new study by an international consortium of archaeologists.
The study, published Aug....