A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
Four national and international leaders on environmental management will join the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies next year. Yolanda Kakabadse, the president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN); James Lyons, U.S. Department of...
Two widely-respected leaders in environment and sustainable development, one from India and one from Kenya, will join the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as McCluskey Fellows. The Dorothy McCluskey Visiting Fellowships in Conservation...
Scientists, spiritual leaders, and conservationists, including U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, will gather at Yale May 11-14 for a conference on religion and the natural world. Stephen Kellert, professor of social ecology at the Yale...
A permanent professorship in environmental studies will be created at Yale through $4 million bequeathed by Joan Tweedy of Darien, a lifelong conservationist. Under the terms of her will, Tweedy will leave the gift to Yale to endow the Tweedy/Ordway...
Yale researchers are using state-of-the-art satellite imagery to study the environmental conditions of west and central African savannas and rainforests. One goal is to estimate the impact of land use changes on food production, on climate change, and...
Yale University is adding 450 acres of forestland to its 1,440-acre Tuomey Forest in a picturesque area of southwestern New Hampshire. The land located in Swanzey, N.H., is being exchanged by Yale University for 50 acres it owns along Route 10 in the...