Yale Environment 360

Featuring environmental issues from a global perspective. Its articles and op-eds feature in-depth reporting, analysis, and interviews with leading experts and policymakers.

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LanguagesEnglish

People & orgsYale School of the Environment

TopicsClimate Reality / Forefront Climate Solutions+6Environment & Biodiversity Nature Nature, Environment & Biodiversity Original Reporting / Journalism Politics & Policy Problems & Challenges

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About Yale Environment 360

_Yale Environment 360_ is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues. We feature original articles by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers, and business people, as well as multimedia content and a daily digest of major environmental news. _Yale Environment 360_ is published at the Yale School of the Environment. We receive funding from the Ford Foundation, the BAND Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, and the Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA). All of _Yale Environment 360_’s editorial decisions and judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support. The opinions and views expressed in _Yale Environment 360_ are those of the authors and not of the Yale School of the Environment or of Yale University.

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