Yale Environment 360 - a new online magazine devoted to covering the global environment - recently launched with articles by noted environmental advocate and writer, Bill McKibben; New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert; climate scientist Richard C.J. Somerville; marine biologist and author Carl Safina; and other notable writers, scientists, and thinkers.

The inaugural issue features opinion, analysis, reporting, and discussion on the major environmental issues of the day - from climate change, to growing water shortages, to the challenge of crafting an innovative energy policy in the United States. It showcases reporting from China, the Amazon, and Russia - just a sampling of its global reach - and a provocative interview with Nobel Prize-winner Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Yale Environment 360 is edited by Roger Cohn, the award-winning former editor of Audubon and Mother Jones magazines. E360 is affiliated with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, whose dean, Gus Speth, saw the need for an online publication that would provide a global forum for opinion, reporting, and debate on the daunting environmental challenges facing the planet.