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Forever Chemicals Are Hidden In Farm Soil. Scientists Found A New Way To Remove Them [Fast Company]
Existing methods of PFAS cleanup are expensive. A new approach is an order of magnitude cheaper— and could also help fight climate change.
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Removing ‘Forever Chemicals’ From Farmlands — At A Fraction Of The Cost [Yale News]
YCNCC researchers have developed a new, less expensive method for remediating “forever chemicals” from farmlands and remove CO₂ from the atmosphere.
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Soil Fertility and Tropical Forest Productivity — a Q&A with YCNCC Faculty Affiliate Michelle Wong
YCNCC News discusses soil fertility and tropical forest productivity with YCNCC Faculty Affiliate Michelle Wong.
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Spotlight on YCNCC Industry Fellow— a Q&A with Yale Chemistry Postdoctoral Associate Abhishek Kumar
YCNCC Science Communications Fellow Samantha Tracy speaks with Kumar about ICU research at Yale and its potential to advance industry.
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Advancing a New Mechanism to Fund Mangrove Restoration — a Q&A with YCNCC’s Blue Carbon OAE Research Team
YCNCC News discusses Blue Carbon OAE with Gabby Kitch, Noah Planavsky, and Peter Raymond.
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Looking To Wastewater For Alternative Energy Materials [Yale Engineering]
Can wastewater fuel the clean energy future? Professor Lea Winter’s team uncovers a hidden source of critical materials.
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Chemicals With Toxic Bite Found in SC Crops Years After Farms Used Tainted Fertilizer [The State]
YCNCC researchers have discovered “forever chemicals” in SC crops that used contaminated sewer sludge as fertilizer.
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Growing a New ‘Leaf’ that Harnesses Sun, Water and CO2 to Make Liquid Fuel [Yale News]
A research team led by Yale chemists has taken the ability of science to mimic photosynthesis to a new level.
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With AI Team Member, Yale and Microsoft Speed Up Battery Innovation [Yale Engineering]
YCNCC Faculty David Kwabi & Microsoft are using AI to accelerate innovation to create safe and scalable redox flow batteries.
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YCNCC Hosts Lab-to-Market Panel at Yale Innovation Summit
At the Yale Innovation Summit, YCNCC showcased how the Center is translating research at Yale into scalable climate solutions.
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Amazon Resilient To Fire, But Diversity Loss Still A Threat, Study Finds [Mongabay]
Study co-authored by YCNCC Faculty Paulo Brando finds Amazon forests resist fire better than expected, but biodiversity loss remains a major threat.
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Can We Fix the Food System Emitting 2% of CO2? with Dr. Lea Winter [Future in Bloom]
YCNCC Science Leadership Team member Lea Winter speaks with Future in Bloom about how her lab is reinventing fertilizer production.
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Better Measurement of Forests’ Contribution to Soil Carbon Sequestration - a Q&A with YCNCC Researchers Mark Bradford and Alex Polussa
New YCNCC and YASSP research on forests’ contributions to soil carbon has implications for national greenhouse gas inventories and carbon markets.
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Amazon Deforestation at Eight-Year Low, Report Shows [Inside Climate News]
YCNCC Faculty Paulo Brando spoke with Inside Climate News about recent declines in the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
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YCNCC Spring Symposium Celebrates Five Years of Leadership in Natural Climate Solutions
YCNCC’s Spring Symposium marked five years of advancing natural climate solutions with bold conversations on scaling carbon removal by 2040.
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Workshop Explores MRV Challenges for Geochemical Carbon Dioxide Removal
Experts from academia and industry convene at Yale to discuss how AI can advance monitoring, reporting, and verification of geochemical CDR.
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YCNCC Hosts Blue Carbon Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Workshop
YCNCC convened experts to create a best practices guide for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of Blue Carbon Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement.
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New Spring 2026 YCNCC Student Seminar Series
The YCNCC launched a new student-led seminar series this spring for graduate researchers to present and discuss recent work.
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Fellowship Program Helps Researchers Develop Pragmatic Climate Solutions [Yale GSAS]
Yale GSAS News spoke with YCNCC Graduate Researcher Ella Milliken about her YPS Fellowship and work on enhanced weathering.
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Better Soil with Natural Carbon Removal: A Yale Geochemist Explains [Future in Bloom]
YCNCC’s Noah Planavsky explains how improved soil pH management via enhanced weathering can benefit farmers and deliver meaningful climate mitigation.
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The Importance of Tracking Earth-System Methane Fluxes — a Q&A with YCNCC Faculty Sparkle Malone
YCNCC News recently sat down with Malone to discuss why better methane flux measurement is critical for climate mitigation.
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The Carbon Dioxide Removal Roadmap [YSE News]
This year’s YCNCC Spring Symposium marks an anniversary and sets the Center’s sights on what carbon dioxide removal needs to achieve by 2040.
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Does Grazer Exclusion Improve Soil Carbon Storage? — a Q&A with YCNCC Postdoctoral Fellow Shangshi Liu
YCNCC news sat down with Liu to discuss managing grassland grazing and the need for accurate estimates of soil organic carbon stocks.
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Amazon Forests Can Recover From Fire — With Some Caveats [YSE News]
A 20-year experiment in southeastern Amazonia finds that even heavily degraded, grass-invaded forests retain the capacity to bounce back from fires.
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Deep-Rooted Grass Stores Significantly More Carbon, New Study Says [Yale News]
A new study led by YCNCC Faculty Eric Slessarev shows that deep-rooted perennial grasses store far more carbon than annual crops.