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Europe continues to dominate in the rankings but is likely to hit a wall without more ambitious strategies and agricultural reform.

As 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.

A century-old planning paradigm still embedded in the physical fabric of suburbs nationwide is driving a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions.

A new history of the Yale School of the Environment explores the people, turning points, and debates that shaped the school — and what its evolution reveals about the future of environmental leadership.

YSE research scientists are working to close the evidence gap that has undermined nature-based carbon credits.

YSE 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.

A YSE-led study introduces a new framework for measuring, monitoring, and managing cities.

A 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.

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. 


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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