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January 8, 2025
On view through June 8, 2025, Photography and the Botanical World at the Yale University Art Gallery bridges the fields of art and science by highlighting photography’s deep-...
December 18, 2024
Paloma Lenz ‘26 is a junior in Pierson College studying environmental engineering with a concentration in architecture. She enjoys working on collaborative research and...
November 12, 2024
The Yale Center for Environmental Justice hosted its sixth annual Global Environmental Justice conference, “Environmental Joy: Roadmaps for Resistance, Resilience, and...
November 6, 2024
In recognition of their pioneering work in fostering inclusivity and equity in the environmental movement, Yale School of the Environment Professors Dorceta Taylor ’85 MFS, ’...
November 1, 2024
On Nov. 4, Yale Peabody Museum, in partnership with Yale Schwarzman Center, will host an experimental opera that imagines Earth after human extinction…   An...
October 19, 2024
Twelve Ph.D. students from across the humanities joined Yale this fall as the fourth cohort of Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellows in the Environmental Humanities. The...
October 17, 2024
On September 6, 2024, twelve members of Yale Environmental Humanities—graduate students, postdoctoral associates, faculty, and administrators—embarked from Branford,...
October 8, 2024
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.   In this magisterial...
October 1, 2024
The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.     On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a...
September 27, 2024
Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “...
September 24, 2024
One of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024   A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped...
September 12, 2024
Climate change law and policy have been influenced heavily by economic thinking. This article uses two manifestations of that thinking - the social cost of carbon and carbon...
September 8, 2024
Yale Environmental Humanities will host a welcome-back panel and reception on Friday, September 20th, at HQ 134. 4 p.m.: Opening Remarks and Panel Discussions (with Q&As...
September 6, 2024
Portuguese residents were terrified when the ground started shaking in the early hours of Monday morning last week. Environmental scientist Deborah R Coen explains why they...
August 8, 2024
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each...
August 1, 2024
Sociology operates with an impoverished understanding of conservatism and the natural environment. The discipline’s focus on antiregulatory and antiscience dimensions...
August 1, 2024
Kevin Yang and Fany Kuzmova’s 2023–24 Environmental Humanities grant project, “New Haven, Revisited,” received a write up in the New Haven Independent by Brian Slattery: Even...
August 1, 2024
Terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems regulate climate at local to global scales through exchanges of energy and matter with the atmosphere and assist with climate...
July 29, 2024
Read more at YaleNews James Scott (“Scotty”) ‘67 Ph.D., a revered scholar whose pathbreaking work crossed intellectual boundaries, died on July 19 at his home in Durham,...
June 18, 2024
Lav Kanoi was profiled by Fran Silverman for Yale School of the Environment’s Canopy Magazine. Lav was the Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Coordinator as...