Yale researchers are using state-of-the-art satellite imagery to study the environmental conditions of west and central African savannas and rainforests. One goal is to estimate the impact of land use changes on food production, on climate change, and...
A permanent professorship in environmental studies will be created at Yale through $4 million bequeathed by Joan Tweedy of Darien, a lifelong conservationist. Under the terms of her will, Tweedy will leave the gift to Yale to endow the Tweedy/Ordway...
Scientists, spiritual leaders, and conservationists, including U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, will gather at Yale May 11-14 for a conference on religion and the natural world. Stephen Kellert, professor of social ecology at the Yale...
Two widely-respected leaders in environment and sustainable development, one from India and one from Kenya, will join the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as McCluskey Fellows. The Dorothy McCluskey Visiting Fellowships in Conservation...
Four national and international leaders on environmental management will join the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies next year. Yolanda Kakabadse, the president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN); James Lyons, U.S. Department of...
A community of researchers, policy makers, industrial strategists, and environmental advocates has launched an International Society of Industrial Ecology, which will be based at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The new field of...
Benjamin Santer, an atmospheric scientist in the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will discuss “Investigating the Causes of Climate Change” at Yale on Friday, February 23. His...
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) has been awarded a $135,000 grant from the Compton Foundation, Inc. to establish the Compton Fellowship Program in Environment and Sustainability. In December, the school received the...
Robert Kates, professor emeritus at Brown University, will discuss the “The Nexus and the Neem Tree” on Thursday, March 22, at 5 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the...
Four journalists who have covered the environment for the New York Times, Time magazine and the former Boston Globe will discuss “What Has Happened Since the 1992 Earth Summit, How We Can Do Better, and What the Media Can and Can’t Do,” in a panel...