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In mid-August, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report documenting the continuing warming of Earth and the perils implicit therein. But, the fate of the planet and everyone upon it doesn’t hold the attention
Read moreLooks can be deceiving. Our Southern Plains has had a milder than normal summer – with rains arriving almost weekly. Last week reminded us of our norms, but this week is supposed to be cooler again. We could
Read morePolar bears spend so much of their time on ice floes and the frozen Arctic Ocean that they are classified as aquatic mammals. The greenhouse-effect heating of planet Earth is melting polar bear habitat out of existence. In
Read morePresident Joe Biden had a successful trip to Europe earlier this month. The main item on the Biden agenda was to assure our allies – and enemies – that the United States is again in the hands of a
Read moreI got up early last week to watch the Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars. A mere 184.46 million miles away, Ingenuity sat on the Martian surface awaiting commands from the control room full of bright young faces at the
Read moreClassical Greeks and Romans once had a wonder plant called silphium, so revered that it appeared on coinage. In 2017, Zaria Gorvett listed some of its uses for the BBC: “Its crunchable stalks were roasted, sautéed or boiled and eaten
Read moreThe heat is on. And we have seen the deep freeze to prove it. Duncanites were among the luckiest in a two-state area during and after the February deep freeze. My unofficial reckoning showed 283 straight hours at freezing or
Read moreWith the departure of the banditti leading the previous administration, four years of orchestrated greed, graft, golf and ill-governance have come to an end. Now, we have President Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat, who will try to put our ship
Read moreWatching in horror as President Trump and Greed’s Own Party miscalculated that sacrificing USAnian lives to the COVID-19 pandemic would save the economy – resulting in unnecessary deaths, heartache and ever-extending economic chaos – has overshadowed other news. And now
Read moreThe illogic of continued resource extraction has finally caught on with reasonable people, but it still faces opposition from folks who resist any change on the principle of refusing to think and that worse lot who don’t care about environmental
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