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Natural Histories: YSE Scientists Collaborate on New Landscape Art Exhibit

A new installation now on view at the Yale University Art Gallery, developed in consultation with Yale School of the Environment scientists, focuses on 19th century paintings that show deforestation and the changing landscapes in the U.S. during the industrial era.

Examining Changes in Public Opinion on Ivory in China

Yale researchers used machine learning techniques to study two decades of ivory trade media coverage in China, discovering some surprising shifts in public sentiment.

Yale Alumni Academy Trip to Chile, Land of Contrasts

Loss of Tropical Biomass Due to Climate Change Could Lead to Increased Carbon Emissions

A YSE-led study predicts that losses in carbon-storing biomass in tropical forests due to climate change could accelerate global warming.

YSE Economist Is Key in Effort to ‘Put Nature on the Country’s Balance Sheet’

Leading a 27-agency team while serving at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Professor Eli Fenichel played a critical role in developing a new national strategy to measure the economic value of natural resources and better understand nature’s contributions to the U.S. economy.

Nyeema C. Harris Honors MLK Jr.’s Legacy of Ecosystem Engineering

In an address held at YSE on Monday, January 23, Nyeema C. Harris, Knobloch Family Associate Professor of Wildlife and Land Conservation, paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of impactful systems change using the principals of ecology as an analogy.

Does ‘Fear’ Drive Bias in Environmental Scholarship?

Scientists understand that fear of predation affects animal behavior within landscapes. Now, YSE researchers are using a similar hypothesis — which they are calling “social-ecological landscapes of fear” — to explore the need for conservationists to address negative human histories in their research.

YSE Lecturer Pat Gonzales-Rogers Discusses Challenges Tribal Nations Face in Conservation and Co-Management of Land

How to balance shared stewardship, co-management, and tribal sovereignty to protect and sustain more than 100 million acres of Indigenous lands in the U.S.  is a fundamental question in conservation. Pat Gonzales-Rogers, a former director and current consultant for the Bears Ears Coalition, has brought his deep experience on these issues to the Yale School of the Environment this year. 

New Study Finds Animals Play Key Role in Restoring Forests

The world’s wildlife populations have declined by almost 70% in the last 50 years as their habitats have been cleared by humans and polluted. Yet, animals play a crucial role in reforestation, a new study published in The Royal Society journal Philosophical Transactions has found.

Yale Doctoral Students Highlight ‘Animal-Vectored Subsidies’ in Journal of Animal Ecology

Yale doctoral students Kristy Ferraro and Diego Ellis Soto developed a "roadmap" to quantify how the movement of animals of all shapes and sizes contribute to and remove nutrients within and across ecosystems. This work earned them the 2022 Sidnie Manton Award from the British Ecological Society.

YSE Sponsors Environmental Research by Two Ukrainian Scientists

The Yale School of the Environment is sponsoring research by two Ukrainian scientists who are exploring how the war with Russia has impacted the country's environment.

‘Highly Cited Researchers’ List Includes Four YSE Faculty Members

YSE faculty members Mark Bradford, Karen Seto, Peter Raymond and Anthony Leiserowitz were recognized by Clarivate Analytics for their published research papers being among the most cited in their field.