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YSE NewsLouisiana’s Shrinking Coast Offers a Narrowing Window for Managed Retreat
May 4, 2026Louisiana 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.
YSE NewsResearch on Challenges Facing Congo Basin Swamp Forests Wins 2026 Bormann Prize
April 28, 2026Yale School of the Environment doctoral candidate Katherine Meier’s research explored how villagers are navigating seasonal flooding in a Congo Basin ecosystem prized for its role in mitigating global climate change.
YSE NewsAmazon Forests Can Recover From Fire — With Some Caveats
April 21, 2026A 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.
YSE NewsYSE Research Day 2026
April 20, 2026At the Yale School of the Environment's 42nd Annual Research Day on April 10, students from across the school came together to share their ongoing research and latest findings. From indoor air pollution in Ghana to Connecticut's urban coastal wetlands to mangrove forests in Southeast Asia to the understudied amphibian population — listen to these emerging climate leaders talk about the hows and whys of their work and where they hope to go from here.
YSE NewsEarth’s Nighttime Lights Are Getting More Volatile—What Does That Mean?
April 10, 2026New research using daily satellite imagery shows that the world’s lights now act like a real-time pulse of human activity, conflict, and development.
YSE NewsFor Frontline Communities, Climate Change Hits Home as Extreme Heat and Power Outages
April 6, 2026New research shows frontline communities and the general public share similar levels of concern about global warming but diverge sharply when it comes to its most immediate consequences: extreme heat, power outages, and other day-to-day harms.
YSE NewsGlobal Carbon Credit Program Risks Rewarding the Wrong Behavior
April 2, 2026New research by Yale scientists reveals hidden vulnerabilities in the world’s largest forest‑protection credit systems.
YSE NewsJackson’s Water Crisis Offers Lessons for Cities With Aging Infrastructure
March 16, 2026A new Yale School of the Environment study finds that while Jackson, Mississippi’s tap water met federal safety standards, corrosion risks, aging plumbing, and social inequality put vulnerable residents at greater risk than systemwide data indicated.
YSE NewsExisting Market Tools Could Provide a Creative Pathway to Finance Conservation
March 12, 2026The 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.
YSE NewsDecoding the Everglades’ Climate Footprint
February 24, 2026A study by YSE scientists on greenhouse gas fluxes in the Florida wetlands provides a path for maximizing carbon capture through water management.
YSE NewsMapping the Future of Wildfires in a Warming World
February 23, 2026YSE Senior Research Scientist Jennifer Marlon was part of an international team that combined global fire data and climate models to identify gaps in wildfire risk projections and outline a framework to better inform long-term planning.
YSE NewsClimate Worries Rise but Dialogue Fades
February 17, 2026A Yale Program on Climate Change Communication survey reveals a gap between Americans’ increasing alarm about the impacts of climate change and news coverage of the issue.
YSE NewsHow Zoning Reform Could Shrink Americans’ Daily Travel Footprint
February 10, 2026New research uses artificial intelligence to simulate how changes to zoning might influence how far people travel each day, thereby reducing transportation emissions.
YSE NewsThe Environmental Trade-offs of Biodegradable Plastics
January 23, 2026Researchers from the Yale School of the Environment found that biodegradable plastics could cut ecotoxicity by 34% but also could increase greenhouse gas emissions without proper disposal and infrastructure.
YSE NewsRethinking Climate Migration
December 9, 2025A new climate adaptation model introduced by Yale School of the Environment Assistant Professor Brianna Castro and a global team of researchers reframes “move or stay” decisions, introducing a third framework of “tethered resilience.”