Yale Earth Week

Yale Earth Week
April 14, 2021

Dear YIBS community,

For Yale Earth Week 2021, explore events, videos, articles, and more from every corner of Yale as we uncover the ways in which sustainability touches every aspect of life. From April 19th - 23rd, earthweek.yale.edu will feature hundreds of opportunities for action and learning with new content uploaded multiple times each day. Discover the intersection between sustainability and environmental justice, food, nature & health, climate, and materials with all of Yale, together. Visit the site and sign up to receive a daily curation of Earth Week content straight to your inbox.

We hope to see you there!
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

News & Updates

Corrie Moreau, CALS Senior Associate Dean, Moser Endowed Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity Director, and Head Curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: Ants, microbiomes, and how I became a rainforest explorer

April 22, 2026
Professor Corrie Moreau, head curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, has explored rainforests around the world in search of the most diverse and ecologically...

YIBS Postdoc Armita Manafzadeh wins young investigator award for paleontology research

December 8, 2025
Armita Manafzadeh, a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, the Department of Earth & Planetary Science, and the Yale Peabody ...

Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water?

November 20, 2025
In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also...