Yale University students, staff and faculty will take part in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 16) in Cancun, Mexico from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10 in a number of ways, including as panelists on two official side events, as members of country...
Carlo Petrini, founder and president of Slow Food, an international movement dedicated to restoring healthy practices of food production and consumption to modern life, will present a talk titled “Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable...
Yale University’s biodiesel shuttle buses and vans are a familiar sight on the streets of New Haven, transporting some 3,500 to 5,000 faculty members, staff, and students around campus daily. Soon, these environmentally friendly vehicles will sport new,...
As climate change continues to emerge as the biggest challenge of the 21st century, the race to come up with novel ways to deal with the threat has become more urgent than ever. Carbon capture and storage – which involves removing carbon dioxide, the main...
President Richard C. Levin today announced a comprehensive set of sustainability goals that are both visionary yet achievable over the next three years. The goals were recommended by Yale’s Sustainability Task Force in its report, Sustainability Strategic...
Yale’s comprehensive Conservation Center has been awarded an endowment challenge grant of $1.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create and endow the position of Director of Scientific Research, a key component of Yale’s plan to establish...
What do you get when you send an English major to study rocks in some of the most remote wilderness in the country? In the case of Laura Marris, the answer is a great read, illustrated with beautiful photos.Marris, an English major who graduated from Yale...
An environmental services startup launched by Yale affiliates has won the $25,000 Sabin Environmental Venture Prize for a technology that uses satellite imagery to obtain forest data.Developed by SilviaTerra, the technology will determine the composition...
Four Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) students have been named Compton International Fellows for 2010-2011 by the Tropical Resources Institute.The Compton Fellows chosen this year are all first-year candidates for master’s degrees in...
Public concern about global warming is once again on the rise, according to a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and George Mason Universities. The results come as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote this week on a resolution to block the...