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...
The search for endangered species is leading scientists to an unexpected place for information — the clouds that shift and swirl around the planet.In a new study, researchers from Yale and the University at Buffalo (UB) say that satellite data about...
Pictured are some of the members of the Yale Hospitality team. Back row, from left — Ron DeSantis, Michael van Emmenes, James Filtz, Dan Flynn, Cathy Van Dyke, and Robert Sullivan. Front row, from left — Pedro Tello, Dana Courtney, Rafi Taherian, Adam...
A Yale University study says global climate models have significantly underestimated how much the Earth’s surface temperature will rise if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase as expected.
Yale scientists looked at a number of global climate...
The extinction of several species of large lemurs in Madagascar has created isolated “orphaned” plant species that once depended upon the animals to eat and disperse their large seeds, a Yale-led survey has found.These large-seeded plant species face an...