Earth Day: A Reading List
We’ve pulled together a reading list of blog posts and extracts for Earth Day 2024, engaging with perspectives and wider conversations about our relationship…
COP26
Egypt’s environmental history offers a warning for COP27
For two centuries, Egypt’s infrastructure projects have realised some goals — but most also turned into disasters of different kinds. Alan Mikhail, author of…
Staff Pick: COP26
To mark the occasion of the COP26 summit in Glasgow this month, we asked our colleagues to recommend their favourite Yale environmental books. November’s…
Climate Change — No 0.5°C are the Same
James Ladyman & Karoline Wiesner, authors of What is a Complex System?, explain the increases in atmospheric temperature and what their consequences might be….
The Problem of Resources in Early Modern Times
Henry Kamen, author of Early Modern European Society recounts the debate over resources and the themes of conservation taking root across Europe in early…
Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
Daniel Esty, editor of A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future explains the Zero Carbon Action Plan and talks about why…
Global Crisis
Geoffrey Parker outlines his book, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, and explores how the lessons learned from the…
Synthetic Biology and Nature-Based Solutions
Kent H. Redford and William M. Adams, the authors of Strange Natures: Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology, explain why synthetic biology and…
Indigenous Voices in Global Soil (and Climate) Policy
Jo Handelsman, Kayla Cohen, Garth Harmsworth and Shaun Awatere tell us about the importance of soil and why the voices of indigenous people must…