The international community must take urgent action to address global-scale threats to the environment or face an era of unprecedented environmental decline argues “Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment,” a new book by Yale...
Elizabeth Shogren, the Washington-bureau environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and Eric Pianin, who covers Bush administration environmental policy and land-use issues for the Washington Post, will discuss “Perspectives from the Media,” on...
Roger Payne, who with colleague Scott McVay discovered that humpback whales sing songs, will discuss “Protecting Whales Via the Media: A Parable Containing Lots of Despair and a Smattering of Joy” on March 30 at noon in the seminar room at 230 Prospect...
Nobel laureate Peter Agre, M.D., professor in the departments of biological chemistry and medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will give two lectures while on campus on March 24 and 25. Agre was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for...
NASA and a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, Yale University and Gemini Observatory report the discovery of the most distant object in our solar system. Nearly the size of Pluto and more than three times as far away, it has...
Distinguished paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey will speak at Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium on Wednesday, March 24, at 5:00 p.m. A reception will follow. The talk, the First Annual Yale Peabody Museum Distinguished Lecture, is titled “Human...
John Rodgers, the Silliman Professor of Geology emeritus at Yale University who mapped the bedrock geology of the state of Connecticut, and who often said, “I collect mountain ranges,” died March 7 at his home in Hamden. He was 89. Rodgers’ love for the...
Deb Callahan, president of the League of Conservation Voters, will discuss “Political Organizing for the Environment,” on March 25 at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The talk is free...
Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE) and Yale University are launching an extension of CURE’s highly successful BioBus program called the Connecticut BioBus Honors Program at Yale University. The first Honors Program will run from 10:00 a....
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake will discuss “Do Americans Care About the Environment? A Democratic Perspective” on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Lake is a...