Climate change doesn’t just pose a scientific challenge; it also creates an ethical obligation for those of us in the developed world, according to Rajendra Pachauri, who gave the inaugural talk in the Yale Climate and Energy Institute’s (YCEI) weekly...
Under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Ziad Baroud, the Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities, the Yale Arab Alumni Association will stage the largest Yale alumni event ever to take place in the Arab Middle East, an international conference...
Yale has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent since 2005, despite a 5.5 percent increase in the size of the campus during that period.Four years ago, President Richard C. Levin committed Yale to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 43...
Yale alumni will travel to Rio De Janeiro October 30 – November 8 to collaborate with leading Brazilian social entrepreneurs working to preserve the degraded Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. The Yale volunteers include business consultants, lawyers, medical...
The world’s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the...
Yale University students, staff and faculty will take part in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP15) in Copenhagen from December 7 – 18 in a number of ways, including a student-led workshop.Partnering with the University of Copenhagen, a...
In the wake of the University of East Anglia email controversy and the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, there has been even more focus on climate change—and a need to clarify the science behind it—than ever. To help...
The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale University geologists. Their findings appear December 20...
The Online News Association has honored Yale Environment 360 with its best “specialty site journalism” award at its annual Online Journalism Awards ceremony, citing content that is “taking debate to a higher level and is so needed in the journalism...
Yale alumni will discuss what they are doing to help corporations develop sustainable strategies even in the midst of an economic crisis in a special program being held on Friday, Oct 9, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES...