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Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues.


     



                 

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1.  At 11,500 Feet, a ‘Climate Fast’ to Save the Melting Himalaya  

2024-03-28

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Sonam Wangchuk has long worked to help people in India’s Ladakh region adapt to climate change. In an e360 interview, he explains why he fasted for 21 days to pressure the government to grant legal protections to the region’s fragile ecosystem and its life-giving glaciers.Read more on E360 →

2.  This Map Shows Where Planting Trees Would Make Climate Change Worse  

2024-03-27

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Though oft touted as a fix for climate change, planting trees could, in some regions, make warming more severe, a new study finds.Read more on E360 →

3.  Octopuses Are Highly Intelligent. Should They Be Farmed for Food?  

2024-03-26

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Octopod fisheries are poorly managed, and global landings are in decline. A Spanish company aims to farm octopods for meat, claiming it would conserve the creatures in the wild. Animal welfare advocates insist that caging the highly intelligent mollusks would be cruel. Read more on E360 →

4.  In Our Age of Fire Suppression, Only the Biggest Blazes Survive  

2024-03-25

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While forest managers have proved adept of stamping out small wildfires, they have been less successful at suppressing larger, more devastating burns. The result is that the average wildfire is more severe than it would be without human intervention.Read more on E360 →

5.  Texas Heat Index Rising Faster Than Temperature, Study Finds  

2024-03-22

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A new study of summer weather in Texas finds the heat index — an indicator of how hot it feels outside — is rising much faster than the temperature.Read more on E360 →

6.  As Carbon Air Capture Ramps Up, Major Hurdles Remain  

2024-03-20

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Aided by tax breaks and carbon credits, scores of plants are being developed or are now operating that remove CO2 from the air. Such facilities are considered necessary to limit global warming, but critics have questions about the high costs and where the captured carbon will go. Read more on E360 →

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