Environmental History at Yale promotes research and teaching at Yale on the complex historical relationship between people and the environment.   Yale’s environmental history offerings benefit from a distinctive global scope, with historians specializing in aspects of African, Chinese, Japanese, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and United States environmental history. 

Yale's environmental history faculty and curriculum are enhanced by strong programs in History of Science and Medicine and the American West, as well as related programs across the campus in Agrarian Studies, Anthropology, Art and Architecture, Environmental Studies, Environmental Sciences, International Studies, and Religious Studies. 

Students and faculty share works-in-progress at a regular brownbag colloquium. Yale hosted a northeast environmental history conference on “SOCIAL CONFLICT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE" in April 2010 and a second conference, "CREATING HEALTHY LANDSCAPES," in March 2011.  A third northeast environmental history conference will be held on Saturday, April 14, 2012, on the theme, "TWO KINGDOMS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FLORA AND FAUNA IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY."