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Wind sweeps the North American High Plains, drying up the scant rain water30×31. But there is water enough for short grasses to flourish, and over the ages they have fed the hardy buffalo, whose massive herds “darkened the plains32“. “[The High Plains is] almost wholly unfit for cultivation,” wrote Major Stephen H. Long […]

Clayton Hall, 14, was bringing the baseball bat for a game in Minneola, Kansas, on “Black Sunday”, April 14, 1935, when the dust storm hit61: “I just got in the middle of the road, … and all of a sudden, I couldn’t see. I thought, well I just got some dust in my eyes. I […]

Two Greenpeace explorers are now trekking across the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole – the first ever such trip during summertime1. The trip is harder and riskier in the summertime, when the seasonal melting of the ice sheet leaves large gaps of ocean water, shaky ice, dense fog and deep slush. The […]

Mainstream science holds that the burning of fossil fuels is causing the earth to warm rapidly. A scientist published that idea in 18981, and through accelerated study it became a consensus by 19962. Only a few scientists still hold that current global warming is due to a natural cause17, but their voices have […]