Yale environmental historian Joseph Manning goes to great lengths to emphasize the lessons that he teaches his students — even as far as taking them to Nevada.
Manning, the William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics and History, is the...
A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical analysis by researchers at Yale and other institutions shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, and...
With record-breaking heat waves gripping many regions of the U.S. and unprecedented floods wreaking havoc from China to Germany, the existential threat of climate change has once again risen to the forefront of public discourse.
But this is not the first...
Embracing the idea that human engagements with the natural world are profoundly shaped by culture, ethics, history, politics, and the arts is one of the central tenets of a new collaborative initiative at Yale.
Launched by faculty and graduate students,...
Noted activist and author Wendell Berry recently traveled from his farm in Kentucky to New Haven, where he visited the campus as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.Wendell Berry chats with students during a visit to the Yale Farm. (Photo by Michael Marsland)...
What do John of Patmos, Mary Shelley, and George A. Romero have in common? Each is responsible for an apocalypse.
Stories about the world ending have been around almost as long as written literature — since well before John’s Book of Revelation, Shelley’s...
The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt — the largest empire of its time — collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital, Nineveh, in 612 B.C.E.
Despite a plethora of cuneiform...
