In 2014, after Superstorm Sandy, we conducted a study of coastal Connecticut residents and found that many people lack basic awareness and understanding of hurricane risks. These...
Trump Can't Cancel the Paris Agreement, and Americans Want the U.S. to Stay Franz Hochstrasser, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies There has been much discussion of...
This blog post is written by Sophie Wenzlau, third year law student at UC Davis. On March 28, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to gut...
In the United States, extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard. Over seven thousand Americans succumbed to the impacts of extreme heat exposure between 1999 and 2009....
This blog post was written by Nathan Lobel, Yale College '17. As those familiar with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication know, our research goes beyond whether people believe that...
As we begin the new year, we wanted to highlight some of our work from 2016 and to talk about the next steps for these projects in 2017. 1. Climate Change in the American Mind Since...
As a visiting fellow affiliated with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, I had a chance to watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary film Before the Flood a few days before its...
Leonardo DiCaprio’s anticipated climate change documentary, “Before the Flood” is now available for viewing. The actor and UN Peace Messenger takes viewers on a narrated visual journey around...
This blog post was written by Samuel Cheng, a fourth-year Sociology student from the National University of Singapore. Why aren't the bare scientific facts enough? It can be hard to truly...
This month, millions of American children will start a new school year. As summer comes to a close, many in the country are still affected by heat waves, flooding, and fires. Some of this extreme...