Yale Climate Connections

1 week ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Jennifer Oldham

A tour of oil and gas sites encroaching on Denver’s eastern suburbs fell on a fitting day, with air so polluted that state health officials warned the elderly and children to stay inside. Participants were eager to see where these toxic gases come from.

1 week ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Victoria Uwemedimo |Katarina Zimmer

Para los habitantes de Mbiabet Esieyere y Mbiabet Udouba, en el extremo sur de Nigeria, la puesta de sol traía consigo a niños haciendo sus tareas a la luz de lámparas de queroseno y el tenue zumbido de generadores que emanaba de los hogares que podían permitirse su funcionamiento.

1 week ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Victoria Uwemedimo |Katarina Zimmer

To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s deep south, sundown would mean children doing their homework by the glow of kerosene lamps, and the faint thrum of generators emanating from homes that could afford to run them. Like many rural communities, these two villages of fishermen and farmers in the community of Mbiabet, tucked away in clearings within a dense palm forest, had never been connected to the country’s national electricity grid.

2 weeks ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Ned Randolph

On a recent Wednesday night, three flares were raging from the industrial smoke stacks at Norco Shell, so bright they could be seen miles away from the interstate at the Bonnet Carré Spillway. They were my guide to Woodland Plantation in La Place, Louisiana, whose new owners were commemorating the site of the largest enslaved revolt in U.S. history.

2 weeks ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Bob Henson

At least 21 people have died as a result of severe weather and widespread flooding in the nation’s midsection over the first week of April, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The overall event was remarkably well predicted (see our April 2 advance write-up). And in the midst of severe pressure on staffing and infrastructure driven by massive cuts to NOAA budgets this year, the National Weather Service persisted, issuing many dozens of lifesaving tornado and flash flood warnings.