Human activity and climate change are driving an acceleration of extinction rates globally, with hundreds of thousands of species under imminent threat of dying out, research shows. As an environmental ethicist, Ryan Darr believes this is a crisis that...
It’s an object that is small but mighty — and a remnant from a time when archrivals didn’t just get mad at each other. They got even.
Known as a “curse tablet,” which was acquired five years ago by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is...
An inscription near the entrance of the Yale Peabody Museum’s first-floor galleries declares the overarching themes of the exhibits that follow: “Life changes the environment and the environment changes life. Extinctions change everything.”
The narrative...
Why do we find stories about vampires, from “Dracula” to “Twilight,” so compelling?
In a video, Yale literature scholar Heather Klemann — who teaches a course on vampires, castles, and werewolves — explains their undying appeal.
The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down in May 1865, following the South’s surrender, close to...
A new single-story house fits snuggly on a shady hillside in the Fair Haven Heights section of New Haven.
Steel cladding on its façade is intentionally rusted, evoking a reddish-brown sandstone ledge — a remnant of a former rock quarry — that faces the...
