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...earthly real estate that qualifies, and much of it has been frozen much longer than two years--since the end of the last ice age, or at least 8,000 years ago. Sealed inside that cryonic time capsule are layers of partially decayed organic matter, rich in carbon. In high-altitude regions of Alaska, Canada and Siberia, the soil is warming and decomposing, releasing gases that will turn into methane and CO2. That, in turn, could lead to more warming and permafrost thaw, says research scientist David Lawrence of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming Heats Up | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...signature green and are instead a sickly pink; pine beetles in western Canada and the U.S. are chewing their way through tens of millions of acres of forest, thanks to warmer winters. The beetles may even breach the once insurmountable Rocky Mountain divide, opening up a path into the rich timbering lands of the American Southeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming Heats Up | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN (David) Green plays Freddie Prinze Jr.'s sidekick on Freddie, which has survived almost a full season on ABC! Didn't Mom always say, It's the nerds who grow up to be hot and rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are They Now? 90210 Edition | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...Dishonest reasons were given to start the war. It was greed for power by US and UK to control oil rich regions, and the last thing on their plate was freedom, facts, humanity. The result was death, distruction, poverty and disorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Was the War Worth It? | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

...Nigeria a country? It sounds like an easy problem on a school pop quiz. But for millions of Nigerians it is still a serious question - the question, in point of fact, at the core of their country's failings. The oil-rich nation, many Nigerians contend, will never "work" because, like so many troubled African countries, it is not a coherent whole but an artificial, colonial fusion of different cultures and ethnicities constantly pulling apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Census Fever in Nigeria | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

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