“Global weirding” is a term popularized by Thomas Friedman in a 2007 New York Times article about the final report of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: “I prefer the term ‘global weirding,’ coined by Hunter Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, because the rise in average global temperature is going to lead to all sorts of crazy things — from hotter heat...
Read MoreAn international team of marine scientists recommend ending industrial fishing in the world’s deep-sea waters because most deep sea fisheries are unsustainable. The deep sea provides less than 1% of the world’s seafood, and fishing there, especially using bottom trawlers, causes lasting damage to fishes and life on the seafloor, such as deep-sea corals, which can live hundreds of years and can’t repopulate on human...
Read MoreOn September 11, 2001, Robert LeBlanc, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of New Hampshire, boarded United Flight 175 at Logan International Airport in Boston. He was en route to Santa Barbara via LAX in order to attend the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers to be held at UCSB September 12-15. About 30 minutes into the flight, five al-Quada terrorists forced their way into the...
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