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YSE NewsThe Overlooked Networks of Heat Resilience
September 8, 2026Households and communities coping with extreme heat often rely on makeshift strategies that go unrecognized by policymakers and can clash with official systems. A YSE expert weighs in on the impact of the divide and the potential for co-created solutions.
YSE NewsHow Much Air Conditioning Usage Actually Prevents Heat Deaths?
August 31, 2026Yale researchers conducted the first nationwide study linking AC usage — not just ownership — to heat-related mortality risks.
YSE NewsA Single Fix Reverses the Case for Rolling Back Vehicle Emissions Standards
August 25, 2026YSE's Kenneth Gillingham and a team of economists find that the EPA has used inconsistent assumptions to justify both tightening and loosening vehicle emissions rules — assumptions that determine whether the rules' benefits outweigh their costs.
YSE NewsWhat Happens When Producers Are Responsible for Recycling Their Products and Packaging?
July 21, 2026YSE research scholar Reid Lifset, who has tracked a policy designed to flip product waste responsibilities from consumers to manufacturers, has built an open reference database to help policymakers and companies understand its costs and benefits.
YSE NewsData Centers, Urban Heat, and AI Growth
July 10, 2026As AI fuels data center expansion, communities are pushing back. What’s driving the opposition, and what are the real environmental and economic trade-offs? YSE experts weigh in.
YSE News2026 EPI: Climate Bright Spots but Slow Progress Globally
July 10, 2026Europe continues to dominate in the rankings but is likely to hit a wall without more ambitious strategies and agricultural reform.
YSE NewsThe Suburban Street Design That’s Been Driving Emissions Since WWII
June 18, 2026A century-old planning paradigm still embedded in the physical fabric of suburbs nationwide is driving a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions.
YSE NewsLandmark Encyclopedia Documents Environmental Justice Issues Worldwide
June 18, 2026YSE Professor Dorceta Taylor led a four-year effort to produce the first comprehensive reference work on environmental justice issues across 26 countries and six continents.
YSE NewsTaking the Urban Pulse: A New Way to Diagnose Cities
June 9, 2026A YSE-led study introduces a new framework for measuring, monitoring, and managing cities.
YSE NewsHow Climate-Vulnerable Residents in Nigeria Are Adaptating on the Fly
June 3, 2026A YSE-led study shows that residents of informal settlements in Lagos are finding new ways to adapt to intense flooding and are building livelihoods from climate action despite being excluded from formal state climate mitigation planning.
YSE NewsInternationally Recognized Leader in Environmental Collaboration Joins YSE Faculty
May 4, 2026From 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.
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 NewsThe Carbon Dioxide Removal Roadmap
May 1, 2026The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture's Spring Symposium marks an anniversary and sets its sights on what natural carbon capture needs to achieve by 2040.
YSE NewsEconomist Focused on the Benefits of Clean Water Joins YSE Faculty
April 28, 2026David Keiser ’14 PhD is redefining how the U.S. measures the true cost of polluted water — building tools that put real dollar values on degraded water quality.
YSE NewsA Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight
April 27, 2026Professor 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.