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YSE NewsCan We Mitigate the Environmental Impacts of AI?
October 10, 2024YSE Professor Yuan Yao discusses the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence.
YSE NewsYSE Alumni Award Winner is Incentivizing Conservation in Panama
October 4, 2024From establishing The Nature Conservancy’s presence in Panama to serving as the country’s first minister of the environment, Yale School of the Environment Distinguished Alumni Award winner Mirei Endara de Heras has dedicated her career to addressing environmental challenges
YSE NewsYSE Alumni Award Winner Honored for Work in Building Coalitions in Colombia
October 4, 2024Claudia Martínez Zuleta is bringing together leaders in finance, agriculture, and climate change to fuel economic growth while also meeting the challenge of sustainable development. Her work has earned her the Yale School of the Environment’s Distinguished Alumni Award, which honors the achievements of YSE graduates who have made significant contributions to the field of conservation, environmental science, and management.
YSE NewsYSE Alumnus Honored for Reclaiming and Protecting Indigenous Land in Virginia
October 4, 2024Luke Swampdog Tyree ’14 MESc founded NDPonics, which has helped reclaim and restore about 1,000 acres of Indigenous land of the Monacan Indian Nation in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In recognition of his efforts, Tyree received the Prospect Street Award, which recognizes a recent Yale School of the Environment graduate who has made significant contributions in the environmental field and exemplifies the spirit of the school.
YSE NewsYSE Welcomes New Associate Dean of Student Affairs
September 17, 2024Sonya Forrester brings a breadth of experience supporting multicultural student communities to her new role.
YSE NewsNew Incentives Boost Corporate Climate Justice Ventures
September 12, 2024From clean energy to sustainable agriculture, companies are launching new climate change mitigation initiatives in underrepresented communities.
YSE NewsVoluntary Carbon Market 2.0, Let’s Talk
September 12, 2024During Climate Week, YSE Lecturer Peter Boyd is teaming up with colleagues in academia and the United Nations to co-host a discussion on ways to encourage more buyers to purchase high-integrity forest carbon credits.
YSE NewsThe Link Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather
September 12, 2024A team of researchers from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication has found that talking about the links between climate change and extreme weather events is not only scientifically valid but is an effective way to help people connect their own lives and experiences to the issue of climate change.
YSE NewsYSE Welcomes New Cohort of Environmental Changemakers
August 27, 2024The Yale School of the Environment welcomed the 2024-2025 incoming class of 147 students who are focusing on a range of issues from the circular economy to regenerative agriculture to environmental justice.
YSE NewsSynergies, Solutions, Communication To Be Climate Week Focal Points
August 26, 2024Greening global trade, the business of climate justice, and a bipartisan path forward will be among the topics covered at YSE-organized events and panels presented as part of a four-day program on scalable and transformative climate solutions hosted by Yale Planetary Solutions during Climate Week NYC.
YSE NewsNew Haven Promise Interns Learn in the Field
August 20, 2024Undergraduate students attending universities in Connecticut contributed to YSE summer field research on natural carbon capture, increasing crop yields, and the impact of invasive insects on forests.
YSE NewsImplementing a New Pathway to Measure and Value Biodiversity
August 12, 2024Yale School of the Environment scientists argue that a single measure for global biodiversity is not workable. They are calling for a framework that builds from individual species and connects biodiversity to its value for people.
YSE NewsNew Interactive Map Provides Local and Regional Climate Opinions in India
August 6, 2024India is one of the world’s top 10 greenhouse gas emitters, but until now, there has been little information about the diversity of climate opinions within the country.
YSE NewsMainstreaming Nature in U.S. Policy
July 31, 2024Ensuring that information about nature is included in the policy- and decision-making process is good governance and can be achieved by applying a specific set of criteria, Yale School of the Environment Economist Eli Fenichel and a group of leading environmental and economic policy experts say.
YSE NewsIn Memoriam: William R. Burch Jr., Frederick C. Hixon Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources Management
July 26, 2024William "Bill" R. Burch Jr., a scientist of international renown for his pioneering work in social and community forestry who taught at the Yale School of the Environment for more than four decades, died July 16, 2024. Burch was the founder of the Tropical Resources Institute (TRI) and the Urban Resources Initiative (URI) at YSE, where he brought innovative approaches in ecological enhancement and community development to both rural and urban settings.