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Founded in 1901, the school offers master’s degrees and doctoral programs and serves as a locus for research into local, regional and global environmental issues.
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Urban green spaces provide shade for city dwellers facing rising temperatures brought on by climate change, but how much relief from the heat island effect do they provide when humidity is factored in?
A new study, led by Yale School of the Environment scientists and published in Nature, investigated the combined effect of temperature and humidity on urban heat stress using observational data and an urban climate model calculation.
Disasters that occur in one place can trigger costs in cities across the world due to the interconnectedness of the global urban trade network.
Global warming directly intensifies wildfires by drying soil and vegetation, particularly affecting drought-prone regions such as California and Australia.
Driven by warming temperatures and changes in the monsoon, extreme precipitation events are worsening in India and forcing millions from their homes.
The Trump administration has announced plans to overhaul the federally subsidised National Flood Insurance Program, increasing policy premiums to more accurately reflect flood risk and home values. The overhaul is said to consider more risk and will address longstanding issues, including outdated flood maps. The changes will start in October 2020.
The methodology for estimating urban heat islands (UHI) is constantly changing, creating a wide array of differing data points. But a new algorithm developed at Yale is distinct in that it is methodologically consistent and also maps over 10,000 urban clusters instead of only focusing on major cities.
Global lake evaporation will increase 16 percent by the end of the century as a consequence of climate change, a new study finds. This accelerated rate of evaporation will, among other outcomes, trigger stronger precipitation events. Understanding these dynamics will be critical if scientists are to accurately predict the future hydrological response to climate change.