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Yale @ Climate Week NYC 2024

September 27, 2024

Yale’s first-ever climate summit, held in New York Sept. 24 to 27, highlighted the university community’s work to address climate change and biodiversity loss.

Exhibition to highlight preservation of Houston’s historic neighborhoods

October 3, 2024

New works by Lance Flowers, on view at the Institute of Sacred Music Oct. 23–Dec. 4, detail the fight to preserve Houston’s historic Third Ward neighborhood.

Air pollution in India: new findings on how to reduce crop burning

October 3, 2024

Yale’s Rohini Pande and coauthors find that adjusting the design of an incentives program can reduce the highly damaging practice of crop burning by farmers.

Yale climate summit opens in New York: Hard realities, real opportunities

September 25, 2024

The four-day Yale @ Climate Week NYC summit underscores the university’s campus-wide commitment to addressing the climate crisis.

New project connects zoos and natural history museums

September 24, 2024

Led in part by Yale’s Peabody Museum, a new effort aims to foster networks between the two fundamentally different but related biological collections.

Yale at Climate Week NYC: Four-day summit kicks off Tuesday

September 23, 2024

Yale University this week will convene thought leaders and organizations for a summit in New York to explore and advance solutions to the global climate threat.

In the ocean, finding potential solutions for climate change

September 23, 2024

Yale physicist Matthew Eisaman explores how to use the oceans — one of Earth’s largest carbon “sinks” — to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Yale School of Public Health urges bold action at Climate Week NYC

September 19, 2024

The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health at YSPH will present a conference on Sept. 27 to explore how health systems can help tackle the climate challenge.

Yale experts explain invasive species

September 18, 2024

In a Q&A, Yale ecologists discuss the threats posed by invasive species to biodiversity, economies, and human health — and solutions to control their...

Electrifying energy to spark a sustainable future

September 17, 2024

Yale Engineering’s Lea Winter is reimagining how we produce useful materials from carbon dioxide and nitrogen in the air and nontraditional water sources.