A new study demonstrates a decades-long increase in the export of dissolved alkalinity from the Mississippi River – a process that removes the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – and also suggests that agricultural lands may sequester...
Yale Dean James Gustave Speth and leading environmental thinkers examine the social and environmental dimensions of globalization and the evolution of global environmental governance in “Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment.” Just released by...
Yale professor F. Herbert Bormann will receive the international environmental Blue Planet Prize from the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation on Oct. 22 in Tokyo. The prestigious prize is awarded annually to two individuals or organizations that have made...
The base height of clouds that form over the Northeastern states has been rising for 30 years, and this could disrupt forests at the north end of the Appalachian Mountains, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental...
Marc Stern, a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has been named a Canon National Parks Science Scholar for his research on the relationship between national parks and people who live near them. Stern was one...
Yale University School of Medicine Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., and Yale-New Haven Hospital President Joseph A. Zaccagnino today announced the appointment of Richard L. Edelson, M.D. as the new director of the Yale Cancer Center effective July 1, 2003....
An executive education program that will help Chinese leaders understand and meet the challenges of sustainable development has been established by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and the Department of Environmental...
Kumpati S. Narendra, the Harold W. Cheel Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale has won the prestigious Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award for pioneering contributions to stability theory, adaptive and learning systems theory, and for...
Experts will discuss the environmental, social and economic impact of Colorado’s Hayman fire, which destroyed 137,000 acres of federal and private land last summer. The presentation will be April 28 at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale...
A study by Yale University researchers provides preliminary evidence that there may be more than twice as many genes in the human genome than previously predicted. Using an advanced genomic technique, researchers looked for all the genes on human...