Traffic and parking experts Tom Vanderbilt and Donald Shoup will speak at Yale on “Traffic, Parking and our Green Future” on January 19 at 7 p.m. in Sudler Hall at 100 Wall St. The forum is free and open the public.Their talk is being presented by Yale...
Iceland leads the world in addressing pollution control and natural resource management challenges, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University. This is...
Kroon Hall, the new home of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has been awarded LEED Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, Yale University announced today.Under the LEED rating system for new construction, Kroon...
Despite a sharp drop in public concern over global warming, Americans—regardless of political affiliation—support the passage of federal climate and energy policies, according to the results of a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and...
Monitors that will provide students with real-time information about energy consumed have been installed in Yale’s Pierson and Silliman residential colleges, the Yale Office of Sustainability has announced.Accompanied by an educational campaign about...
Researchers at Yale and George Mason Universities have identified six distinct “Americas” when it comes to the issue of global warming. One of these groups, the “Dismissive,” who believe global warming is not happening and is probably a hoax, has more...
More frequent tropical cyclones in Earth’s ancient past contributed to persistent El Niño-like conditions, according to a team of climate scientists led by Yale University. Their findings, which appear in the Feb. 25 issue of the journal Nature, could...
Yale Environment 360 has won the award for best video in the 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media for an original report that it produced and posted on the site about mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.The video, “Leveling Appalachia...
The new Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI) will convene its first annual conference, Clean Energy Innovation: Overcoming Barriers to a New Energy System, at Yale University from April 23 to 24. The conference will bring together top leaders in...
Public concern about global warming is once again on the rise, according to a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and George Mason Universities. The results come as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote this week on a resolution to block the...