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Energy efficiency advocate Brendan Haley highlights the benefits of heat pumps – which heat and cool homes – by dressing as one for Halloween. The post A costume to chill for appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Dos nuevos estudios de atribución rápida han encontrado que el cambio climático aumentó los vientos de Melissa entre un 7 y un 10%, y los daños en un 12%. The post El cambio climático fortaleció al Huracán Melissa, haciendo que los vientos de la tormenta fueran más fuertes y los daños más graves appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Two new rapid attribution studies have found that climate change increased Melissa's winds by 7-10% and damage by 12%. The post Climate change strengthened Hurricane Melissa, making the storm’s winds stronger and the damage worse. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Rishi Varma’s ‘Sulfur Bottom’ centers on a family living next to a toxic waste site. The post New surrealist play explores climate justice themes appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve. The post The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Se espera que Melissa afecte a las Bahamas y a Bermudas como un huracán de Categoría 2, y luego se convierta en un sistema extratropical cerca de Terranova, Canadá, el viernes. The post El Huracán Melissa de Categoría 3 azota a Cuba y avanza rápidamente por las Bahamas appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Melissa is expected to impact the Bahamas and Bermuda as a Cat 2 hurricane, then become extratropical near Newfoundland, Canada, on Friday. The post Cat 3 Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba, speeds through the Bahamas appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Community leaders have debuted a high-tech biodigester designed to capture emissions, feed gardens, and inspire the next generation. The post A biodigester on Chicago’s South Side turns waste into power appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Al tocar tierra en el occidente de Jamaica, los vientos de 185 mph (295 km/h) y la presión de 892 mb de Melissa la empataron con el Huracán del Día del Trabajo de 1935 en los Cayos de Florida como el más fuerte registrado en el Atlántico. The post El catastrófico Huracán Melissa azota Jamaica como el huracán más fuerte que ha tocado tierra en el Atlántico appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

At landfall in western Jamaica, Melissa’s 185 mph winds and 892 mb pressure tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys as the strongest on record for the Atlantic. The post Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Deep in the mountains of Palawan, Conservation International scientists are capturing what few people ever see: the secret lives of the Philippines’ rarest species.

At Maido — the Lima restaurant recently crowned the best in the world — one of the star dishes is paiche, a giant prehistoric river fish.Its journey to the table begins on a small family farm deep in Peru’s Amazon.

“Jane Goodall forever changed how people think about, interact with and care for the natural world,” said Daniela Raik, interim CEO of Conservation International.

Conservation International’s Neil Vora was selected for TIME’s Next 100 list — alongside other rising leaders reshaping culture, science and society.

Climate change is happening. And it’s placing the world’s reefs in peril. What can be done?

After decades of negotiation, the high seas treaty is finally reality. The historic agreement will pave the way to protect international waters which face numerous threats.

The Amazon rainforest, known for lush green canopies and an abundance of freshwater, is drying out — and deforestation is largely to blame.

The ocean is engine of all life on Earth, but human-driven climate change is pushing it past its limits. Here are five ways the ocean keeps our climate in check — and what can be done to help.

In a grueling and delicate dance, a team led by Conservation International removes a massive undersea killer.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. These pictures might be worth even more. An initiative featuring the work of some of the world’s best nature photographers raises money for environmental conservation.