Yale Environment 360, a new online magazine dedicated to covering the global environment, is launching today at http://e360.yale.edu. Edited by Roger Cohn, the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines, Yale Environment 360 aims to become one of...
An annual $25,000 Sabin Environmental Venture Prize has been established at Yale to stimulate entrepreneurial environmental ventures by the University’s faculty and students. The Sabin Prize will support the creation of new nonprofit and commercial...
A team of Yale scientists has found that certain countries and some U.S. states stand to benefit from the use of compact fluorescent lighting more than others in the fight against global warming. Some places may even produce more mercury emissions by...
Yale scientist Menachem Elimelech will receive the 2008 Lawrence K. Cecil Award for outstanding contributions to the fields of chemical and environmental engineering at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) on November...
Growing up, Matthew Eckelman couldn’t stand to see his parents toss a soda can in the garbage. “I was one of those kids who annoyed my parents to no end trying to get them to set up household recycling,” he says. “Now, they’re even more ardent about...
Andrew Revkin, Environment Reporter for the New York Times, will speak at Yale University on November 12, 6:00 p.m., in the Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street.Revkin’s lecture, “The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Global Warming, from the North...
If climate disasters are to be averted, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) must be reduced below the levels that already exist today, according to a study published in Open Atmospheric Science Journal by a group of 10 scientists from the United States, the...
For Ross Mitchell and Taylor Kilian, graduate students in geology and geophysics, the end of the work week sometimes marks the beginning of their work.Weekends often find them far from New Haven, studying paleomagnetism — using “fossilized” magnetic...
A Yale book examining the clash between today’s capitalism and the environment was selected by the Washington Post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2008. The newspaper called “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and...
Many Americans have already taken action to reduce their energy use and many others would do the same if they could afford to, according to a national survey conducted by Yale and George Mason universities. Roughly half of the 2,164 American adults...