As the “green”-conscious know, using less energy and biking and walking more are two ways to help fight climate change. But what if you could combine the two and actually use the energy created through exercise to produce a cleaner form of electricity?...
[Washington, D.C., U.S.A.] Yale University and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) are convening the U.S.-India Energy Partnership Summit on October 1, 2009 in Washington, D.C. to contribute to the ongoing high-level dialogue between the United...
Summer may be coming to an end, but Yale’s campus keeps getting greener — and people are taking notice.The University recently made The Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll, was named one of the top 20 “coolest schools” for its sustainability efforts by...
Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth. Researchers at Yale University, the Carnegie Institution of...
As Gus Speth prepares to step down later this June after serving 10 years as dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), alumni, faculty and friends of the school continue to make new gifts and pledges to a minimally endowed $1...
Most polluted or damaged ecosystems worldwide can recover within a lifetime if societies commit to their cleanup or restoration, according to an analysis of 240 independent studies by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies...
President Obama has nominated Paul Anastas, Yale’s Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment, to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Office of Research and Development.Anastas is currently...
Americans fall into six distinct groups regarding their climate change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, according to a new report, “Global Warming’s Six Americas,” by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities. The researchers, who surveyed 2,129...
A special advance screening of the Disney film, Earth, and a documentary by Madonna that chronicles the suffering of children in Malawi orphaned by AIDS will headline a Yale film festival intended to raise awareness of global environmental issues. “Film...
We may be too late to save the world from meltdown, but we have to try anyway, so said writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben to the audience that had gathered in Marquand Chapel to hear his lecture on global warming.McKibben — whose April 3 talk...