A fierce, decades-long battle for control of Maine’s forest management culminated Nov. 4 when voters by a narrow margin defeated a referendum that would have placed unprecedented restrictions on the state’s logging practices. The referendum, a topic of...
The environmental impact of the paper and wood industries, from production through consumption and recycling, is the topic of a recently released special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology. The peer-reviewed international journal is published...
Today at Yale University, the Commerce Department’s Office of Technology Policy (OTP) issued the first comprehensive report on the U.S. Environmental Industry. The new report, “Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Industry Faces the 21st Century, The U.S....
Students at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies who are members of the student chapter of the Society of American Foresters are holding their annual Christmas tree sale on Saturday, Dec. 5. Funds from the sale – which will take place...
The following talks at Yale University Feb. 1-8 are free and open to the public. Lawyer/sociologist to present Law School Dean’s Lecture Richard O. Lempert, the Francis A. Allen Collegiate Professor of Law and professor of sociology at the University of...
Reporters are invited to a three-day immersion in current economic issues at Yale University this weekend, when the Graduate School department of economics hosts a reunion conference, April 16-18. Topics to be covered at “The World Economy in the 21st...
On Tuesday, Oct. 12, the Earth’s population is expected to reach six billion and Yale population expert Fred Meyerson says that unless action is taken, projected future population growth will lead to increased pressure on scarce resources such as land...
Yale Environmental Law Professor Dan Esty – considered the foremost expert on the issue of trade and the environment – was in Seattle this week for the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. He is back in Connecticut and available for interviews...
A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
Yale University is adding 450 acres of forestland to its 1,440-acre Tuomey Forest in a picturesque area of southwestern New Hampshire. The land located in Swanzey, N.H., is being exchanged by Yale University for 50 acres it owns along Route 10 in the...