Climate Change

Study Reveals Surprising Role of Haze In the Warming of Chinese Cities

Note: Yale School of the Environment (YSE) was formerly known as the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). News articles and events posted prior to July 1, 2020 refer to the School’s name at that time.

A new Yale-led study published in the journal Nature Communications sheds light on the surprising role that haze in China plays in promoting the urban heat island effect [UHI], a process whereby city centers tend to be significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.

Kai Chen

PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health), Yale School of Public Health, Director of Research, Climate Change and Health and Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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Robert Dubrow

MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences), Yale School of Public Health, Faculty Director, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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Jeannette Ickovics

PhD, Samuel and Liselotte Herman Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, Dean of Faculty, Yale-NUS College, Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health.

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Mark Bradford

PhD, Professor of Soils and Ecosystem Ecology, Yale School of the Environment

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The Central Park Climate Lab: Research and Cooperation to Combat Climate Change in City Parks

A research collaboration of the Yale School of the Environment, Natural Areas Conservancy, and Central Park Conservancy

Anna Dyson

MArch, Hines Professor of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of the Environment, Founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture

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Michelle Bell

PhD, MSE, MSc, Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health, Yale School of the Environment

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Karen Seto

PhD, Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale School of the Environment, Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology

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Skilled Workers Flee from Polluted Cities, Hampering Economic Growth

In China, highly educated people are more likely to move away from areas with poor air quality. Reducing pollution could substantially increase GDP there and in other countries, according to a new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Mushfiq Mobarak.