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What evolved was a collaboration that benefited not only settlers but the forest and animals that lived there as well. "Whenever we came up with ideas, people were willing to try them," says Suzana. One IPE plan called for planting trees around forested tracts, creating an abraco ao verde (literally, green hug) to ward off assaults by cattle, fires and windstorms. Another envisioned linking forest fragments with broad corridors of trees, along which jaguars, tapir and tamarins could travel...
...Nino, move over. The rising star on the meteorological scene, according to climatology insiders, is the Arctic Oscillation, or AO. It could be the reason, scientists argue, that people have been lunching outdoors in New York City, driving with the top down in Boston and tanning by the lake in Chicago--in December...
...sometimes called the North Atlantic Oscillation or the northern hemisphere annular mode--involves atmospheric-pressure changes over the northernmost part of the globe, from about 55[degrees] latitude on up, according to Colorado State University's David Thompson and the University of Washington's John M. Wallace. When the AO is in a positive phase--that is, pressure at the core of the region is low--a ring of wind that swirls around the North Pole increases in strength and keeps the frigid Arctic air from escaping southward out of the vortex. That means warmer than usual weather in most...
...flip side. When the AO swings negative, the circling Arctic winds weaken and cold air descends from the polar region, leading to below-normal temperatures across the hemisphere. The AO seesaws every winter, and appears to be drifting back to the negative now, at least momentarily. Combine that with an El Nino- and La Nina-free forecast, says the NWS, and the balmy fall just may have been a prelude to a frightful winter...
...Samui's least-developed beach, Ao Thong, the Samui Dharma Healing Center offers a personalized, no-frills holistic fast. For $300 a week, American owner Hillary Hitt and husband Greg give one-on-one and group counseling sessions as well as classes on nutrition, meditation and yoga to a maximum of 18 participants. "Cleansing is a journey, a deep spiritual experience. You need a teacher and you need support," says Hitt. A lot of it, in fact. In the first few days of fasting, guests can expect "nausea, dizziness, headaches, exhaustion, heaviness, bloating and moods of anger, depression, fear, sadness...