For Yale’s David Post, it is the unintended consequence of his research and training project in Africa that may have the most lasting impact.
Post, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, heads a research laboratory that is giving Yale students and...
The loss of forests in Africa in the past century is substantially less than previously estimated, an analysis of historical records and paleontology evidence by Yale researchers shows.
Previous estimates put deforestation at 35% to 55% on the continent...
Former Vice President Al Gore will visit Yale for a conversation with former Secretary of State John Kerry, a Distinguished Fellow in Global Affairs at Yale. The talk is part of the Kerry Conversations series presented by the Kerry Initiative.
The talk...
A colony of monkeys off the coast of Puerto Rico mostly survived a direct hit by Hurricane Maria but an international team of researchers who have studied the 1,000 free-ranging Rhesus monkeys are scrambling to assist survivors and the staff who serve...
The following message was sent to members of the Yale community on Sept. 26 by Kimberly M. Goff-Crews, secretary and vice president for student life.
This has been a season of disasters across our country and the world. Once again, earthquakes and...
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 opened the Yale Climate Conference this week by comparing the threat of rising global temperatures to the danger posed by a rogue state acquiring nuclear weapons.
While our political leaders rightly respond...
Liza Comita, assistant professor of tropical forest ecology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has been honored with the Founders’ Prize by the British Ecological Society (BES), the oldest ecological society in the world. Comita will be...
