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In this time of profound environmental transformation, humanities perspectives are urgently needed to help interpret and give meaning to the rapidly changing world around us. Humanities scholars have an opportunity to reshape how we think about environmental problems and “the environment” itself.  

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News

December 16, 2025
By Roan Hollander In early December, the New Haven Environmental History Project and Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute hosted “Teaching with Maps:...
December 15, 2025
Is it possible to create the “perfect” expression of data on a map?   William Rankin doesn’t think so. While most mainstream maps that use a jigsaw-...
December 11, 2025
As a child in Chiba, Japan, Moeko Fujii spent a lot of time watching old Hollywood films with her grandmother, who was a big fan of Elizabeth Taylor...