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Corals are not the only recorders of climate history. Jay Noller, for example, a geomorphologist from Vanderbilt University, has been studying ancient sediments from Peru's northern desert, which is among the dryest spots on earth--except during El Nino years. Then and only then, torrential rains from a succession of storms compact surface dust into a layer of fine, red soil. From the age of the soils he has examined so far, Noller concludes that the El Nino cycle has been operating for at least 2 million years, and probably much longer...
...episode begins with Larry's opening monologue, which sounds just like Garry's real monologues, and brings on real-world guests like Carol Burnett. The twist is that we get to peek behind the scenes, where all is phoniness and petty bickering. It's show- biz satire of the dryest, most in-jokish sort but undeniably funny. Shandling and a guest try to schmooze as the closing credits roll. "Just pretend like you're talking to me," he tells her. Fine, Garry, and we'll pretend TV comedy isn't running into a self-referential dead...
...spell that has reduced rainfall more than 10% over the past 30 years. Many scientists believe the shortage of rainfall stems from the widespread deforestation by humans in other parts of Africa, which may have changed the continent's weather , patterns. Already the Ndoki is one of the dryest tropical rain forests on earth, and if rainfall keeps decreasing, the woodland may be doomed no matter what legal protection it receives...
...globe. Speaking in Cairo last June at a water summit organized by the Washington-based Global Strategy Council, Farouk El-Baz of Boston University raised hopes among African nations when he announced that an analysis of remote sensing data has revealed unsuspected supplies of underground water in the dryest part of the Egyptian Sahara. El- Baz believes there may be twice as much water stored underground worldwide as previously assumed...
...detectors that would peer at the faint microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang explosion, which theoretically started the universe. In the high altitudes atop the pole's ice cap, the detectors are well above the densest, murkiest layers of atmosphere and can peer through some of the dryest, clearest air on earth to help determine whether the original Big Bang was unique or was followed by smaller ones. A few hundred yards away, close to the enormous geodesic dome that covers the thickly insulated buildings of the U.S.'s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, atmospheric scientists measured traces...