A pioneering commercial litigator will discuss his role in blocking the construction of several coal-fired power plants in a landmark case that pitted 37 cities against a powerful Texas utility. Stephen Susman of the firm Susman Godfrey will discuss the...
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...
Melina Shannon-DiPietro, who has been co-director of the Yale Sustainable Project for the last five years, will assume full responsibilities as director on Oct. 1. Shannon-DiPietro succeeds Josh Viertel, founder and co-director of the Sustainable Food...
In the spirit of an old-time barn raising, members of the Yale and New Haven community pitched in to help raise a pavilion at the Yale Farm on Sept. 20. The structure still awaits a roof, but that didn’t stop participants from holding a dance there that...
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...
John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American, will be the guest at a Pierson College master’s tea on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Rennie’s talk, titled “The Greening of the Media: Challenges in Reporting on Environmental Science,” will begin at 4:30 p.m. in...
Successfully confronting today’s environmental and social challenges requires a re-examination of the values and worldviews that shape our perceptions of nature and society, according to a new Yale report, “Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain...
A rare water bug, a juvenile box turtle and a quarter-inch-long isopod that hasn’t been seen in more than 50 years highlighted findings in the second annual “BioBlitz” that involved Yale and other regional scientists May 30 and 31 in Stratford.Scientists...
A tiny species of fairy shrimp that hasn’t been seen since the 1950s has been rediscovered by a scientist at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.Eric A. Lazo-Wasem, senior collections manager in the Peabody’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, was...
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...