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Another round of weird peak-season quiet in the Atlantic tropics » Yale Climate Connections
We’ve arrived at the peak week of hurricane season – the traditional midpoint of the Atlantic’s yearly activity is September 10 – but you wouldn’t know it from the Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, on Monday, September 8. The headline: “Tropical cyclone activity is not expected during the next 7 days.” As we reported last …
Read More »Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics
Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But new research shows that they were braving the cold. As an ecologist who has studied chimpanzees and lemurs in the field in Uganda and Madagascar, I am fascinated by the environments that shaped our primate ancestors. These new findings overturn decades of assumptions about how – and …
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