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Amazon Resilient To Fire, But Diversity Loss Still A Threat, Study Finds
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.
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Kwabi Named To AAEES 40 Under 40 [Yale Engineering]
YCNCC Faculty David Kwabi has been named to the 2026 AAEES 40 Under 40 list - which honors rising leaders in environmental engineering.
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Founder Interview: Meet Noah Planavsky and Gabriella Kitch of Blue Carbon Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement [CarbonFix]
YCNCC researchers Noah Planavsky and Gabriella Kitch discuss the Center’s new Blue Carbon OAE initiative with CarbonFix.
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Global Carbon Credit Program Risks Rewarding the Wrong Behavior [YSE News]
New research by Yale scientists reveals hidden vulnerabilities in the world’s largest forest‑protection credit systems.
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Stashing CO₂ in the Sea [Knowable Magazine]
YCNCC Faculty David Kwabi explains how ocean alkalinity enhancement can potentially benefit marine ecosystems.
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Opinion: Why Environmental Tipping Points Don’t Have to Spell Doom [UNDARK]
Tipping points do not mean no return: YCNCC Research Associate Bela Starinchak explains how restoration can still work after thresholds are crossed.
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A Researcher’s Report from OSM26
A guest post from YCNCC and EPS Graduate Researcher Kira Biener reporting on last month’s OSM26 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Incorporating Co-Benefits into Enhanced Weathering LCA and TEAs — a Q&A with YSE Associate Professor Yuan Yao
YCNCC News spoke with YSE Associate Professor Yuan Yao about life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic assessment (TEA) for enhanced weathering.
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YCNCC Researchers Present at OSM26 in Glasgow
YCNCC researchers attended OSM26 in Glasgow to share new work on marine carbon dioxide removal.
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Decoding the Everglades’ Climate Footprint [YSE News]
A study by YSE scientists on greenhouse gas fluxes in the Florida wetlands provides a path for maximizing carbon capture through water management.
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Forest Ecologist Sara Kuebbing Joins the YSE Faculty [YSE News]
YCNCC Scientific Leadership Team member Sara Kuebbing will join the faculty of the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) on July 1.