Events

, a student-run magazine produced at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, arrived in buildings across campus this week. The spring 2015 issue comes with a new look and a bold ambition: to “expand environmentalism” through meaningful conversations about the world and our place in it.

The latest edition of Sage Magazine, an F&ES student-run publication will be released at a special event on April 22. The issue features stories, all written by F&ES contributors, about place.

More than 880 people attended the conference, which celebrated the work of people of color across the fields of environmentalism and conservation, while also exploring how justice, inequality and environment are connected.

The sixth annual Yale New Directions in Environmental Law Conference (NDEL 2016), co-hosted by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale Environmental Law Association at Yale Law School (YLS), will be held at the Law School on Feb. 26 and 27.

The seventh annual Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY), a student-run event being held April 3 to 11, has selected 26 films from hundreds of submissions representing more than 30 countries.

On a recent winter afternoon, Sue Morse, tracker and founder of Keeping Track, led nine F&ES students through the snows of Yale-Myers Forest for a wildlife tracking workshop.

Biotechnology entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg will visit F&ES on Feb. 3 to discuss the evolution of DNA sequencing, what it has taught us about life on earth, and its potential to transform humankind and the environment.

F&ES recently hosted 29 officers from the Indian Forest Service (IFS) participating in the service's mid-career training program. During the two-week program, they took part in a series of lectures and field trips on campus and throughout the region. 

Over the past 25 years, photographer and conservationist Ian McAllister — who visits Yale next week — has become one of the primary champions of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest. In an interview, he describes what attracted him to this beautiful and endangered landscape, and the power of photography in preserving the natural world.

The first and only national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Canyons & Seamounts Marine National Monument, has been protected for three years under the Antiquities Act of 1906. Advocates for its designation and community members recently gathered at F&ES to commemorate the unique importance of this marine monument.

A project that promotes forest conservation by linking sustainable producers with high-value markets received the first ever International Society of Tropical Foresters Forest Finance Innovation Prize during the group's annual meeting held at F&ES.

A project that has coalesced 28 villages in Honduras to promote long-term water and land conservation in the face of numerous environmental threats received the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) Innovation Prize during the Yale Student Chapter’s annual meeting held last month at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES).

Across the U.S. some of the most successful sustainability-related projects are the fruits of partnerships between cities and universities. A one-day conference at Yale will highlight some of these success stories — and provide insights into how they might be replicated elsewhere.

A Yale symposium being held on Jan. 24 will bring together academics studying the science of urban ecosystem services and the practitioners who are using this emerging field to improve the environmental health of their communities.

The Himalayan Studies Conference, being held at Yale from March 14 to 16, will explore a range of ecological, social and political challenges facing a region that divides — and connects — the two great Asian superpowers, China and India.