In 2020 Yale University unveiled an ambitious new initiative, Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS), that unites leadership and experts across campus, and across disciplines, to advance solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing the planet.
Typically, the students who enroll in Karla Neugebauer’s undergraduate classes are interested in examining life at the molecular level.
But during a recent seminar discussion, Neugebauer, a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of cell...
In 2017, Yale launched a first-of-its kind program to explore the effectiveness of putting a price tag on carbon emissions — and it used the university campus as a laboratory.
To encourage energy-saving policies and behaviors on campus, the Yale Carbon...
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...
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...