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...working within the existing Sharia framework, a system common in northern Nigeria, Ibrahim’s work has set important precedent for Sharia law, Elkins said...
...into the area. But we really are stretched to the limit. We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. South Kivu [a province of Congo] is tense. So is Ituri [another province in the country], and we have the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that originated in northern Uganda] in the northeast. We are doing short-term reinforcements, but we simply do not have an effective rapid-reaction force...
...research disputes a long-standing belief that peat bogs in the northern latitudes were fairly immune to temperature increases because of consistent precipitation patterns in those regions...
...researchers’ analysis of peat bogs in northern Manitoba found that a temperature increase of four degrees Celsius—a conservative estimate of future warming—would release 40 percent of stored carbon in shallow peat bogs and up to 86 percent of carbon in deeper bogs, further contributing to the buildup of greenhouse gases...
Moorcroft said he hopes to study further the potential for fires in northern bogs affected by climate change, particularly because this study predicted that carbon decomposition would soon rise rapidly, further emphasizing the importance of immediate action in mitigating global warming...