January 2022 News

Climate technology
January 24, 2022
Yale has announced the creation of a new fund to support early-stage research on solutions related to climate change—the latest step in the university’s wide-ranging efforts...
Conservationist Thomas Lovejoy
January 19, 2022
The YSE community is mourning the loss of renowned conservation biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy ’63 BA, ’71 PhD.  A senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation, Lovejoy’s...
Composting
January 19, 2022
What is composting and the basic science behind it? Forest Abbott-Lum (MEM ’21), Composter in Residence at the Yale Sustainable Food Program, describes composting as “the...
Central Park in New York City
January 13, 2022
The Yale School of the Environment is partnering with the Central Park Conservancy and the Natural Areas Conservancy in a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at helping...
WTNH: Sten Vermund, MD, PHD, Dean of Yale School of Public Health
January 13, 2022
(WTNH) – One of the major factors surrounding climate change is how it can affect human health outcomes. This is definitely something we need to pay attention to. Dr. Sten...
Graphic of Mongolia
January 5, 2022
By Bill Hathaway  The last decade has seen important but insufficient progress in protecting areas that are home to endangered species worldwide, conservation leaders say. As...
Eye of the Hurricane
January 3, 2022
A new, Yale-led study suggests the 21st century will see an expansion of hurricanes and typhoons into mid-latitude regions, which include major cities such as New York,...