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The loneliness of the long-distance floater

From the National Geographic's annual photo contest, by Eric Guth: Is it possible to sense loneliness and loss in a chunk of glacial ice? Related articles The winning images from Nat Geo's 2012 Photography Competition will blow you away Writers, Artists, Musicians: Where Would We Be If Our Loneliness Left Us Alone? The little girlContinue reading “The loneliness of the long-distance floater”

Nation suddenly realizes global warming is just going to be a thing that happens from now on

NEW YORK—Following Hurricane Sandy’s destructive tear through the Northeast this week, the nation’s 300 million citizens looked upon the trail of devastation and fully realized, for the first time, that this is just going to be something that happens from now on. From The Onion, of course. My fav part is the concluding quote: “RightContinue reading “Nation suddenly realizes global warming is just going to be a thing that happens from now on”

We are the new PETM: National Geographic

Their headline is a little less wonky: Hothouse Earth. No matter — it's still a typically great National Geographic story. Just how much carbon was injected into the atmosphere during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, as scientists now call the fever period, is uncertain. But they estimate it was roughly the amount that wouldContinue reading “We are the new PETM: National Geographic”