A Yale book examining the clash between today’s capitalism and the environment was selected by the Washington Post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2008. The newspaper called “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and...
For Ross Mitchell and Taylor Kilian, graduate students in geology and geophysics, the end of the work week sometimes marks the beginning of their work.Weekends often find them far from New Haven, studying paleomagnetism — using “fossilized” magnetic...
Yale’s Office of Sustainability has reported a 7% reduction in the University’s greenhouse gas emissions since 2005 despite a 3.2% increase in the size of the campus during that period.President Richard C. Levin committed Yale three years ago to a 43%...
A conference on the social and ecological sustainability of biofuels and the impact of their production on the forests of Central and South America — sponsored in part by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) — will take place...