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February 23, 2024
From keeping oil drilling sites away from neighborhoods and schools in Los Angeles to securing land rights for women in Sierra Leone, there is plenty of joy to be found in...
June 16, 2023
When Lexie Holden ’25 was choosing a law school, she had two non-negotiables: a thriving Native American student organization and opportunities to study and put into practice...
May 16, 2023
After 25 years leading the novel initiative they co-founded, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology’s Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will retire from teaching this spring,...
March 31, 2023
The modern environmental justice movement in the United States traces its roots back to the 1980s when protests over a toxic waste landfill in largely rural, Black, and low-...
December 21, 2022
In the U.S. there are about 600 million acres of public lands and more than 100 million acres of Indigenous lands. How to balance co-management, shared stewardship, and...
August 22, 2022
A trio of local scholars are gaining hands-on work experience in Yale School of the Environment faculty labs this summer.
August 11, 2022
From clean electricity investment credit to environmental justice to funding for coastal ecosystem restoration, YSE faculty offer insight into how the Inflation Reduction Act...