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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. green soybean plants with roots
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    The Carbon Dioxide Removal Roadmap

    May 1, 2026

    The 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.

  4. Keiser beside a glacial blue river in a mountainous landscape
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    Economist Focused on the Benefits of Clean Water Joins YSE Faculty

    April 28, 2026

    David 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. View of earth and the United Stated at night from space, showing illuminated areas
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    Earth’s Nighttime Lights Are Getting More Volatile—What Does That Mean?

    April 10, 2026

    New research using daily satellite imagery shows that the world’s lights now act like a real-time pulse of human activity, conflict, and development.

  8. Aerial shot of a timber yard outside a sawmill on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State
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    Global Carbon Credit Program Risks Rewarding the Wrong Behavior

    April 2, 2026

    New research by Yale scientists reveals hidden vulnerabilities in the world’s largest forest‑protection credit systems.

  9. Zimmerman portrait
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    Julie Zimmerman Named AAAS Fellow

    March 26, 2026

    Zimmerman was recognized for laying the groundwork for safer, more sustainable chemicals and materials and her leadership and service in the environmental sciences. 

  10. portrait of Indy Burke
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    Indy Burke Reappointed Dean of the Yale School of the Environment

    March 23, 2026

    Indy Burke, professor of ecosystem ecology, has been reappointed as the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the Yale School of the Environment. Her third five-year term will begin July 1, 2026.

  11. Karl Aspelund portrait
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    Natural Resource Economics Expert to Join YSE Faculty

    March 19, 2026

    Karl Aspelund’s research focuses on how policy design and data-driven environmental solutions can advance equity and sustainability.

  12. Aerial view of Jackson, Mississippi skyline with flooding Pearl River in the forground
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    Jackson’s Water Crisis Offers Lessons for Cities With Aging Infrastructure

    March 16, 2026

    A 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.

  13.  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.

  14. EPA building in Washington DC
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    Examining the Reach of the EPA’s Climate Ruling

    March 6, 2026

    Yale School of the Environment experts assess the legal, policy, and public health implications of the rollback of the EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding.

  15. 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.