To Jodi Sherman’s way of thinking, the Hippocratic Oath’s vow of doing no harm includes doing no harm to the planet — particularly when it comes to the sea of single-use plastic flooding the health care industry.
Sherman, an associate professor of...
Matthew Eisaman hasn’t had much of a chance yet to explore the nooks and crannies of the Yale campus. His schedule is pretty full trying to help save the planet.
Since arriving in July, Eisaman, an associate professor in the Department of Earth &...
Every day beneath our feet, microbial decomposers tussle with soil minerals over a vast reservoir of carbon stored in the ground — and scientists know almost nothing about how this jostling plays out at the global scale.
Yet that knowledge might prove...
Yale’s Julie Zimmerman, a globally recognized engineer whose research in green engineering laid the groundwork for a generation of safer, more sustainable chemicals, materials, and practices across industry and academia, has been named the university’s...
Yale has awarded more than $1.5 million in Planetary Solutions Project Seed Grants to 23 projects across campus that are working to address climate change, biodiversity, and related health and justice issues.
The grants focus on an interdisciplinary,...
A group of new scholars hired by the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) is poised to launch a wave of innovative, multidisciplinary research programs aimed at measuring, mitigating, and adapting to the ongoing threat of climate change.
The...
While a single piece of technology isn’t going to solve the climate crisis, there’s a new instrument at Yale that is expected to help dozens of scientists assess the benefits of natural climate solutions to alleviate catastrophic global warming.
In 2023,...
Jodi Sherman, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine and of epidemiology in environmental health sciences at Yale School of Public Health, will testify Sept. 15 at a U.S. Congressional hearing on what it will take to prepare...
Extra waves may be great for surfers, but they can lead to tumultuous weather when they start showing up in jet streams.
That’s because jet streams — blowing ribbons of wind that encircle the earth — play a critical role in the location and severity of...
Climate models may be significantly underestimating how extreme precipitation will become in response to a rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a new Yale-led study finds.
It all comes down to raindrop physics, researchers Ryan Li and Joshua...