The Cool Down8/27/2026
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"If you look after something, it will look after you."

In “Chocolates Melting Away” — the First-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Breech Asher Harani explores how cacao growers in the Philippines are developing new techniques to protect their crops from increasingly turbulent weather. Read more on E360 →
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"If you look after something, it will look after you."
"These upgrades will also lower energy bills, improving affordability while also promoting resilience to the impacts of extreme weather."
Testing has also shown that using heat pumps for cooling can work in real-world conditions.