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  1. portrait of Michael Kern
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    Internationally Recognized Leader in Environmental Collaboration Joins YSE Faculty

    May 4, 2026

    From supporting Tribal co-management of Pacific Northwest salmon to unlocking a 20-year impasse over farmland protection, Michael Kern finds consensus where others find only conflict. He joins Yale this July as the inaugural Bataua Professor in the Practice of Collaborative Solutions. 


  2. aerial view of a inhabited spit of land on the coast of Louisiana, with small grassy islands receding into the distance
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    Louisiana’s Shrinking Coast Offers a Narrowing Window for Managed Retreat

    May 4, 2026

    Louisiana is losing its coast faster than anywhere else in the U.S. What happens next could become a blueprint — or a warning — for vulnerable communities around the globe.

  3. Two male Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) on a Lek in Scotland
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    A Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

    April 27, 2026

    Professor Oswald Schmitz has spent decades studying how animals shape the ecosystems they inhabit. He recently spoke with YSE News about the science behind rewilding — and why healthy wildlife populations may be one of nature's most undervalued tools in the fight against climate change.

  4. Previously burned forest beside an agricultural field in the Amazon
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    Amazon Forests Can Recover From Fire — With Some Caveats

    April 21, 2026

    A 20-year experiment in southeastern Amazonia finds that even heavily degraded, grass-invaded forests retain the capacity to bounce back from fires, but not without costs to edges, drought resilience, and species left behind.

  5.  Hundreds of bats flying over treetops at dusk
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    Existing Market Tools Could Provide a Creative Pathway to Finance Conservation

    March 12, 2026

    The municipal bond market can be used to incentivize conservation and counter the impacts of bat losses in agricultural counties across the U.S., according to a new study coauthored by Yale scientists.

  6. YSE Doctoral Candidate Jonathan Gewirtzman measures methane emissions from a tree stem in a flooded ghost forest site near Flamingo, Florida in March, 2022. Photo credit: Isaac Zapata
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    Decoding the Everglades’ Climate Footprint

    February 24, 2026

    A study by YSE scientists on greenhouse gas fluxes in the Florida wetlands provides a path for maximizing carbon capture through water management.

  7. Training participants on a hillside in Rwanda
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    ELTI Expands Field Training to Rwanda

    November 25, 2025

    The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) recently launched its first forest restoration field course in Rwanda.

  8. Coyote grazing in an urban setting
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    What Can Urban Wildlife Teach Us About Shared Spaces?

    November 14, 2025

    Professor Nyeema Harris spoke with YSE News about how humans and animals can coexist in city spaces.

  9. workshop participants watch a drone take measurements
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    A Critical Knowledge Exchange Deep in the Amazon

    November 3, 2025

    COP30, which opens next week in Belém, Brazil, is expected to have an unprecedented focus on the essential role of Indigenous peoples in driving sustainable global climate response. Associate Professor Paulo Brando, an internationally recognized expert on tropical forest ecology, recently spoke to YSE News about the urgent need to connect ancestral knowledge with scientific methods to monitor and protect the health of threatened Amazon ecosystems.

  10. A lion in the wild savannah
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    The Tiny Threats Facing the Kings of the Savannah

    October 29, 2025

    New research led by YSE scientists reveals hidden parasites in endangered West African Lions.

  11. panoramic view of a Pineland ecosystem of the Florida Everglades
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    Fire Fuels Resilience in Florida’s Subtropical Forests

    October 24, 2025

    Scientists from the Yale School of the Environment discovered that forests in the Everglades bounce back quickly after fires, often surpassing their previous levels of productivity. The research reaffirms the need to continue prescribed burns in the face of a changing climate.

  12. aerial view of vast agricultural fields in the Amazon rainforest
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    There Is Wide Variation in the Amazon’s Response to Degradation and Climate Change

    August 21, 2025

    New research by Yale School of the Environment scientists highlights the need to reduce the “hammer” of human impact on the world's largest rainforest rather than focusing on an all-encompassing climatic tipping point. 

  13. Tractor cultivating the springtime soil
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    Liming Can Help Enhance Carbon Capture in Agricultural Fields

    August 6, 2025

    The common mineral can promote harvests and help fight climate change, a YSE-led study found.

  14. researcher with syringe inserted into tree trunk to remove internal sample
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    Novel Research Reveals Thriving Microbial Life in Trees

    August 6, 2025

    A study by YSE scientists opens up new avenues for understanding tree physiology, forest ecology, and how trees are responding to climate change.

  15. Two foresters measuring fallen timber and recording the data at a selective logging site in Japan
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    Mass Timber Could Drive Forest Expansion and Cut Emissions

    July 16, 2025

    The climate benefits of cross-laminated timber outweigh earlier concerns but only if managed responsibly, according to a recent Yale School of the Environment study.