Tiny ponds play a disproportionately large role in global greenhouse gas emissions from inland waters, according to a new study by Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.Although ponds less than a quarter of an acre in size make up only 8.6...
Professor Jeffrey Powell began working on the mosquito that transmits the Zika virus when he was an undergraduate student 49 years ago. He has a life-long fascination with Aedes aegypti, which he refers to as “a truly elegant creature.”
His latest...
It may be even trickier to predict the strength of El Niño weather patterns than previously thought, according to a study by Yale researchers.A new variable — intraseasonal wind bursts — may play an unexpected role in the way El Niño systems develop, the...