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Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues. Established in 2008, it features original articles by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers, and business people, as well as multimedia content and a daily digest of major environmental news.

It is based in New Haven, Connecticut, and published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale University. It is funded in part by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The opinions and views expressed in Yale Environment 360 are those of the authors and not of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies or of Yale University.

Content and Coverage
Yale Environment 360 covers the most important environment issues of the day. The site has devoted the majority of its coverage to several key issues: global warming and the search for sources of renewable energy, and the struggle to preserve the world’s remaining wild lands and biodiversity. In addition, the site has frequently posted stories on other vital topics, such as fisheries and oceans, global water scarcity, environmental pollution, and sustainability and green design.

It features the work of numerous prominent environmental writers and thinkers, including author and activist Bill McKibben; Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker; Elizabeth Rosenthal and Verlyn Klinkenborg of The New York Times; Fred Pearce of New Scientist; science writers Carl Zimmer and Michael Lemonick; and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental writer, John McQuaid. In addition, the site has featured op-eds from such prominent environmental thinkers as Paul R. Ehrlich, who wrote about overpopulation; NASA’s James Hansen, who wrote about the impact of coal and mountaintop removal mining; Oberlin’s David W. Orr on climate change; marine biologist Carl Safina on the acidification of the world’s oceans; and many more.

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Yale Environment 360 has published several acclaimed video projects, including The Warriors of Qiugang, an Academy Award-nominated film co-produced by Yale Environment 360 with filmmakers Thomas F. Lennon and Ruby Yang. This film, which is shown exclusively online at Yale Environment 360, chronicles the struggle of the people of Qiugang — a hamlet of nearly 1,900 people in Anhui province — to curb the pollution that was poisoning their homes, schools, and fields. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2011.

Yale Environment 360 also co-produced the film Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, which examined the environmental and human impacts of this mining practice. The film was named best video in the 2010 of the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media and Best Online Video Journalism from the Online News Association.

PBS’s MediaShift named Yale Environment 360 “One of Eight Public Media 2.0 Projects That Are Doing It Right,” and Inside Higher Ed called it “the best site for environmental information." In 2009, the site received an Online Journalism Award for best specialty site journalism, and in 2011, the site was an Online Journalism Awards finalist for general excellence.

Contributors
Since its inception in 2008, Yale Environment 360 has featured writing by, and has conducted interviews with many acclaimed figures in the field of global environmental issues.

Writers

 * Richard Conniff, a 2012 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow, author, and National Magazine Award-winning writer specializing in animal and human behavior.
 * Carl Zimmer, a popular science blogger, science writer for the New York Times and lecturer at Yale University
 * Elizabeth Kolbert, a longtime writer for The New Yorker. Her 2005 article series on global warming, entitled "The Climate of Man" won a National Magazine Award and was extended into a book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe
 * Verlyn Klinkenborg, a non-fiction author and a member of the editorial board of The New York Times
 * Paul J. Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist who is notable for his research on ozone-depleting chemicals
 * Robert Engelman, president of the "World Watch Institute", author and former environmental journalist
 * Elisabeth Rosenthal, an international environmental journalist for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune
 * Roger A. Pielke, Jr., professor in the Center for Science and Technology Policy Reserach at University of Colorado at Boulder and former director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
 * Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, author and scholar in residence at Middlebury College
 * Fred Pearce, freelance author and environment consultant for New Scientist magazine
 * James Hansen, director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Columbia University
 * Doug Peacock, naturalist, outdoorsman, and author best known for his memoir about his years spent observing grizzly bears

Interviews

 * Gregory Barker, the UK's Energy and Climate Change Minister.
 * Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat who played a key role in passage of cap-and-trade legislation by the House of Representatives.
 * Maria Cantwell, democratic Washington senator, who sponsored the Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal Act
 * Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Nissan, whose decision to invest in the world's first line of electric cars became the subject of the documentary, Revenge of the Electric Car
 * Amory Lovins, environmental scientist and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute
 * Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Prize awardee
 * Stewart Brand, writer, most notable for being editor of the Whole Earth Catalog
 * Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club and former executive director of the Rainforest Action Network
 * John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
 * Freeman Dyson, Princeton University physicist notable for his controversial views on the severity of global warming