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August 13, 2012

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12:23 PM | Extreme Digging
I thought I was leaving the extremes of the southwestern desert behind as I traveled to the so-called temperate climate of the Midwest and the balmy tropics of Puerto Rico. But those areas, like much of the country these days, faced the kind of weather extremes that exemplify what’s ahead as the world warms. The [...]
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May 01, 2012

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12:41 PM | Visionary or Vision-Impaired? Lovelock Is Both
Just because someone has had some brilliant ideas, it doesn’t mean every word he utters shines with truth. Let’s keep that in mind in the furor about James Lovelock, inventor of Gaia theory. Lovelock finally stepped back from his doomsday interpretation of climate change last week, but he’s still got a lot of the science [...]
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April 10, 2012

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11:41 AM | A river rams through it: Argentina’s Rio Nuevo portends problems to come in South America
Mention Argentina to someone outside of the country, and chances are the discussion will turn to the mouth-watering quality of the beef. I heard all kinds of recommendations about enjoying this Argentinian delicacy when I was preparing to travel to this South American country. Yet once there, I learned that Argentinian ranchers have been fading [...]
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