A research team co-led by Angela Zoumplis, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, has identified complex organisms near the Blood Falls area of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica — a discovery that offers new implications for how microbial life adapts to harsh environmental conditions.

Yale researchers, led by principal investigator and Professor of Earth and Planetary Science Noah Planavsky, have developed a new, less expensive method for remediating “forever chemicals” from farmlands that would also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Yale researchers used fossilized teeth in ocean sediments to trace the origins of Cyclothone, a deep-sea fish genus, back at least 55 million years. The lead author Karinne Tennenbaum, a 2026 Yale graduate, worked on the study as an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Pincelli Hull, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The fifth round of Yale Planetary Solutions grants will award more than $1.9 million to 19 projects, including four projects that will also receive support from the newly created Planetary Solutions Impact Accelerator.

Earth.com covered a recent study led by Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, in which Bhullar and his team identified a previously unknown species.

A recent study led by Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, was covered by the New York Times.

Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is part of a team of researchers that have identified a 210-million-year-old crocodile relative from New Mexico as a distinct species, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa.

Inspired by an undergraduate science class, a new study co-authored by a Yale alum and Jun Korenaga, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, uses math to suggest that the spark of life on Earth happened quickly — once the conditions were right.

FAS faculty member Damanveer Grewal conducts high-pressure experiments and analyzes meteorites to figure out how planets form—and where they obtain the ingredients that support life.

YCNCC News spoke with Planavsky, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, about the need for “radical transparency” as the world works to scale carbon dioxide removal to massive levels—billions of tons per year—in order to meet climate goals.