On Monday night, during an online vigil to honor and remember Kevin Jiang, a Yale School of the Environment (YSE) student killed on Feb. 6, Jiang’s faculty advisor described him as the most efficient researcher he’d ever worked with at Yale — a voracious...
When Jack Beecher first arrived at Yale in the 1980s, some people were surprised to hear he was a military veteran. The implication, he figured, was that military experience was viewed as unusual and perhaps somehow incompatible with certain notions of...
Just as the scientific community was reaching a consensus on the dangerous reality of climate change, the partisan divide on climate change began to widen, a new study finds.
That might seem like a paradox, but it’s also no coincidence, according to...
When more than 300,000 people marched in the streets of New York City during the People’s Climate March, in September 2014, Elizabeth Yeampierre, a co-organizer of the event, made sure that young people of color stood at the front of the line.
As...
More than 600 major companies — from BP to Microsoft — have adopted carbon-pricing programs to spur energy conservation and control their carbon emissions. But the effectiveness of these efforts has not been analyzed or publicly reported.
An article...
If you pit a pair of gladiators, one strong and one weak, against each other 10 times, the outcome will likely be the same every time: The stronger competitor will defeat the weak. But if you add into the field additional competitors of varying strength...