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YSE NewsWhere Does the Money Go in Environmental Grantmaking?
March 22, 2023A new study by the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative (JEDSI) at the Yale School of the Environment examined nearly $5 billion in grants awarded by 220 foundations in 35 states and found that several of the largest mainstream environmental organizations received more funding individually than all the environmental justice organizations combined.
YSE NewsArcadia Grant Will Help Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative Expand its Reach
March 14, 2023The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) of The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment will be expanding its reach in capacity development, accelerating on-the-ground results for sustainable land use, continuing efforts to promote open access to resources, and sharing evidence about its experiences to date with the help of a $3 million grant from Arcadia,
YSE NewsStudy Examines Potential Use of Machine Learning for Sustainable Development of Biomass
March 7, 2023Researchers at YSE examined machine learning’s role in promoting the sustainable design of biomass and biomass-derived materials and found few studies applied machine learning to their entire lifecycle. They say that when applied appropriately machine learning can support sustainability-informed design.
YSE NewsMussels and Other Aquatic Animals Provide Critical Coastal Ecosystem Protections
March 7, 2023New research led by the Yale Carbon Contain Lab encompassing 750,000 acres of coastal areas in the U.S. finds that mollusks play an important role in the health and growth of salt marshes.
YSE NewsWorld-renowned Urbanization Expert Karen Seto Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations
March 7, 2023Karen Seto, Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of the Environment, has been named a lifetime member of the United States Council on Foreign Relations.
YSE NewsBureau of Land Management Leaders Emphasize Balanced Approach to Land Use
February 24, 2023Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning and Principal Deputy Director Nada Wolff Culver in a discussion at the Yale School of the Environment February 22 note the federal agency's dual mandate of commercial use and conservation — with an emphasis on “protect the best, preserve the rest.”
YSE NewsNatural Histories: YSE Scientists Collaborate on New Landscape Art Exhibit
February 7, 2023A 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.
YSE NewsExamining Changes in Public Opinion on Ivory in China
February 7, 2023Yale researchers used machine learning techniques to study two decades of ivory trade media coverage in China, discovering some surprising shifts in public sentiment.
YSE NewsLoss of Tropical Biomass Due to Climate Change Could Lead to Increased Carbon Emissions
January 25, 2023A YSE-led study predicts that losses in carbon-storing biomass in tropical forests due to climate change could accelerate global warming.
YSE NewsYSE Economist Is Key in Effort to ‘Put Nature on the Country’s Balance Sheet’
January 23, 2023Leading 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.
YSE NewsNyeema C. Harris Honors MLK Jr.’s Legacy of Ecosystem Engineering
January 11, 2023In 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.
YSE NewsDoes ‘Fear’ Drive Bias in Environmental Scholarship?
December 22, 2022Scientists 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 NewsYSE Lecturer Pat Gonzales-Rogers Discusses Challenges Tribal Nations Face in Conservation and Co-Management of Land
December 21, 2022How 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.
YSE NewsNew Study Finds Animals Play Key Role in Restoring Forests
December 19, 2022The 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.
YSE NewsYale Doctoral Students Highlight ‘Animal-Vectored Subsidies’ in Journal of Animal Ecology
December 12, 2022Yale 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.