Profiles / Features


  1. High Hopes for Growing a Green Fuel in Arid East Africa

    Degraded Landscapes 2 <p class="p1"> The arid landscape of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia where API is growing oil crops for biodiesel.</p>
    Since graduating from Yale in May 2010 with a degree in environmental engineering, Noah McColl has been spending a great deal of time thinking about what to do with leftovers. Not leftovers from yesterday’s meal, but rather what some might have traditionally seen as industrial wastes from the process of making fuel out of green plants. McColl would prefer
  2. Partnering with Nature In New York’s Urban Jungle

    For nearly two decades, former F&ES classmates Jennifer Greenfeld and Bram Gunther have worked to strengthen nature’s role in an unlikely setting: New York City, where restored salt marshes, healthy forests, and 1 million newly planted trees have given the Big Apple an ecological makeover.
  3. Edgar Hertwich, Global Leader in Industrial Ecology, Joins F&ES Faculty

    Edgar Hertwich, who helped transform the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) into a leading global institution in the study and teaching of industrial ecology, joins the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) this semester as professor of industrial sustainability.
  4. Ecologist Indy Burke Named F&ES Dean

    Ingrid C. “Indy” Burke, an accomplished ecosystem ecologist and director of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, has been appointed the 16th Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.