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Airlines are in trouble. That's hardly news to anyone who has followed the bankruptcies, cost-cutting and other financial woes the industry has endured in recent years. But the extra $15 you have to pay on Northwest Airlines to get a roomy aisle seat - now that's something that can get a frequent flyer riled...
...Northwest joined the charge last month with its Coach Choice program, in which flyers pay more for the seats most in demand: $15 for the roomier aisle and exit row seats. The airline reports that sales for the program are "running ahead of expectations," despite protests from frequent travelers who claim they would prefer a $5-$10 price hike across the board...
...million people - led to plans to beef up the number of monitoring buoys in the Pacific. The buoys can provide up to six hours' warning, says Nicolini, if the waves are coming from far across the ocean. But an earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction zone just off the Pacific Northwest could create tsunami-size waves within five minutes. "You'd feel that kind of an earthquake on land," Nicolini says. "If you do, start running to higher ground" - at least 40 feet above sea level. For residents of low-lying places, says Nicolini, "vertical evacuation" - climbing a tree or going...
...winners in Canada's Arctic? When the Northwest Passage finally clears enough to be a viable shipping route--probably in the next 50 years--a whole range of trade opportunities will come with it. So will resources, as fossil-fuel deposits in the ocean floor become more accessible. ArcticNet researchers are already mapping out the undersea terrain with sonar and analyzing the geopolitical implications of finding the long-sought Arctic Grail. Their proposals should help the government deal with an international legal dispute already under way: whether the Northwest Passage is within Canadian waters, subject to domestic security and environmental...
Another predicted consequence of global warming is heavier downpours, leading to more floods. The immediate hazard is drowning, but the larger issue is water quality. To take just one example, more than 700 U.S. cities--most of them older communities in the Northeast, Northwest and Great Lakes area--have sewer systems that regularly overflow into water supplies during heavy rainstorms, mixing dirty and clean water and sometimes requiring mandatory boiling to make contaminated tap water safe. A heavy rainfall preceded the majority of waterborne-disease outbreaks in the U.S. over the past 60 years, says Dr. Jonathan Patz...