On April 22nd, in celebration of Earth Day 2008, Yale will launch the University’s first campus-wide Sustainability Pledge. The goal of the Pledge is to continue to build upon the growing campus support around sustainability initiatives at Yale. The...
Paul T. Anastas, Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry, Yale was honored on May 4 by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents with their Leadership in Science award for founding the field of “Green Chemistry.”Known as “The Father of Green...
Yale University scientists reported Sunday that they may have resolved a controversial glitch in models of global warming: A key part of the atmosphere didn’t seem to be warming as expected. The findings were reported online Sunday in the journal Nature...
Yale Environment 360, a new online magazine dedicated to covering the global environment, is launching today at http://e360.yale.edu. Edited by Roger Cohn, the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines, Yale Environment 360 aims to become one of...
A rare water bug, a juvenile box turtle and a quarter-inch-long isopod that hasn’t been seen in more than 50 years highlighted findings in the second annual “BioBlitz” that involved Yale and other regional scientists May 30 and 31 in Stratford.Scientists...
A tiny species of fairy shrimp that hasn’t been seen since the 1950s has been rediscovered by a scientist at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.Eric A. Lazo-Wasem, senior collections manager in the Peabody’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, was...
Successfully confronting today’s environmental and social challenges requires a re-examination of the values and worldviews that shape our perceptions of nature and society, according to a new Yale report, “Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain...
John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American, will be the guest at a Pierson College master’s tea on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Rennie’s talk, titled “The Greening of the Media: Challenges in Reporting on Environmental Science,” will begin at 4:30 p.m. in...
An annual $25,000 Sabin Environmental Venture Prize has been established at Yale to stimulate entrepreneurial environmental ventures by the University’s faculty and students. The Sabin Prize will support the creation of new nonprofit and commercial...
Melina Shannon-DiPietro, who has been co-director of the Yale Sustainable Project for the last five years, will assume full responsibilities as director on Oct. 1. Shannon-DiPietro succeeds Josh Viertel, founder and co-director of the Sustainable Food...