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I did not see anyone starving to death. But perhaps that was because North Korean officials politely ignored CNN's requests to see the worst affected victims. Still, the vast majority of the thousands of people I saw were thin and in some cases mildly emaciated, even in the capital...
Until recently, most weather scientists paid scant attention to the periodic episodes of warm water that for countless centuries have appeared off the coast of Peru. They seemed to be a local event, one that affected mainly fish--in particular, Peru's lucrative anchovy fishery--and seabirds. Not until the...
Coastal Peru is hardly the only area affected. El Nino alters winds and currents throughout the tropics, producing what climatologist Nicholas Graham of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography calls "a weird kind of sloshing." As the trade winds slacken, he explains, they give rise to slow-moving waves that surge...
This puts a lot of pressure on climate modelers, who, even as their forecasts improve, will surely couch them in caveats. As TV viewers know from nightly weather forecasts, an 80% chance of rain doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be unfurling their umbrellas. At an El Nino symposium...
Because he Harvard Coop, where most students purchase their books, is now affiliated with Barnes and Noble, officials said they don't expect book shipments to be severely affected. Barnes and Noble has its own trucking company in New Jersey that will deliver books to the Coop.