Yale scientist David Evans will look both billions of years into the past and ahead into the near future in the next In the Company of Scholars talk on Tuesday, Feb. 11.
David Evans at work.
Titled “Past and Future Movements of Continents Across Earth's...
The release of volatile organic compounds from Earth’s forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a new Yale study finds.Nadine Unger with Yale’s omega...
Decisions made by Colonial era settlers to dam Connecticut waterways triggered sudden and parallel evolutionary changes in two species of fish competing for food, a new Yale University study shows.From Bride Lake in Connecticut, an alewife with access to...
Yale geology and geophysics professor Ruth Blake recently completed a tour of duty as lead scientist aboard the exploration vessel Nautilus, during the Windward Passage leg of the ship’s 2014 exploration season.Professor Ruth Blake was on the E/V Nautilus...
A century after its extinction, the passenger pigeon is gone but not forgotten.Peabody exhibit preparator Michael Anderson sets up the “From Billions to Zero” display. (Photo by Jim Shelton)“From Billions to Zero,” a new exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum...