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  2. What Do Plants Sound Like? Plants and the Audible Spectrum

    What does a plant sound like? And what does a plant hear? An interdisciplinary project at Yale, highlighted during a recent installation at the F&ES Forest Garden, is applying new technologies that help people listen to plants — and even speak their language.

  4. Welcome to Perspectives

    To solve “wicked problems,” a group of Yale students is learning how to think differently in a unique new course.

  5. Video Snapshots: Doctoral Research at F&ES

    In a series of videos, we asked several Ph.D. candidates to describe their research in just 90 seconds. These vignettes offer just a small window into the exciting research being done by our students.

  6. U.S. Rivers and Streams Saturated With Carbon

    The researchers assert that a significant amount of carbon contained in land, which first is absorbed by plants and forests through the air, is leaking into streams and rivers and then released into the atmosphere before reaching coastal waterways.

  7. MODs Introduces New Students to Urban Ecology of New Haven

    For generations of F&ES students the summer orientation known as MODs has offered a chance to learn fundamental environmental skills in the forests of Connecticut. These days it also includes a week in the streets and green spaces of New Haven, where they become familiar with the field methods for analyzing the urban ecosystem. A new video offers a glimpse.

  8. University Landscapes: An Opportunity for Agroforestry

    What does a university landscape look like? In a new article, F&ES student Emily Sigman writes that when we place landscapes “in the background,” and fail to highlight the interaction between humans and nature, we miss a tremendous opportunity.

  9. Two F&ESers Named Switzer Fellows

    Two F&ES students, Jolisa Brooks ’18 M.E.Sc. and Brunilda Pizarro ’18 M.E.Sc., have been named recipients of Switzer Environmental Fellowships, a prestigious program that supports future environmental leaders.

  14. Celebrating a New Haven ‘Blessing’: Two Decades of Urban Resources Initiative

    Garrett 4268 URI Residents prepare to plant a tree on Elm Street as part of the Urban Resources Initiative’s GreenSkills program.
    Nobody could have predicted the success of the Urban Resources Initiative, or URI, when it started in 1995, a few hundred volunteers spread over a handful of New Haven neighborhoods. But two decades later, more than 270 community groups have participated in URI’s Greenspace program. Every summer, more than 1,000 volunteers join together, working across the city to convert unused