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

An artist’s depiction of Likweli, a new Colobus monkey species that inhabits forest canopies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is difficult to photograph. Illustration by Kimio Honda

Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

July 15, 2026

An international team of scientists, including Yale researchers, has described a new Colobus monkey species inhabiting high forest canopies in the Democratic Republic of...

Distinctive spiral striations on the teeth of extant species of Cyclothone — the world’s most numerically abundant fish genus — match striated patterns on fossilized teeth dated to more than 55 million years ago. Photo by Karinne Tennenbaum

Tiny teeth fossils reveal ancient origins of ocean’s most abundant deep-sea fish

July 2, 2026

The deep sea, which is typically defined as depths of at least 200 feet, is home to 90% of marine fish life, but the fishes that inhabit it are poorly represented in the...

Southern Appalachian salamander at Grandfather Mountain State Park, North Carolina.

The secret lives of salamanders

June 22, 2026

For her doctoral dissertation, Yale’s Nathalie Alomar decided to study a small amphibian that appeared to have eluded the forces of evolution. She found that there is more...

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