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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.
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 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 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 NewsJulie Zimmerman Named AAAS Fellow
March 26, 2026Zimmerman was recognized for laying the groundwork for safer, more sustainable chemicals and materials and her leadership and service in the environmental sciences.
YSE NewsIndy Burke Reappointed Dean of the Yale School of the Environment
March 23, 2026Indy 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.
YSE NewsNatural Resource Economics Expert to Join YSE Faculty
March 19, 2026Karl Aspelund’s research focuses on how policy design and data-driven environmental solutions can advance equity and sustainability.
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 NewsExamining the Reach of the EPA’s Climate Ruling
March 6, 2026Yale School of the Environment experts assess the legal, policy, and public health implications of the rollback of the EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding.
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.