Word: weather
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...Frosty weather chills country on Easter...
...feeling about ourselves as a ballclub right now,” Walsh disagreed. “We’re not concentrating on the things we should be concentrating on. I feel like I’m Joe Doppler. I’ve been on the weather forecast...
...Some point out that it’s nice to have a large chunk of time in January to research or travel without having to teach. Others like that they can get their kids settled in school before they have to teach. And still others point out that the weather on Cape Cod during the first few weeks of September simply cannot be beat. While we recognize these concerns, we feel that they are dwarfed by the benefits of a changed calendar. Faculty will still be teaching the same number of days each year, and their uninterrupted research time would...
...situation is a little different in the tropical regions. Tropical soils are much darker than polar snows, so replacing open land with trees makes little difference as to how much light the land reflects. In fact, planting trees in the tropics actually cools the earth. Warm-weather trees help to draw water out of the ground and into the atmosphere, creating clouds that reflect light and keep the atmosphere cool...
...look anything like the earth we have now. By now, you’ve probably heard the litany of changes, which was repeated in stark terms in last Friday’s report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): higher sea levels, more extreme weather events, decreased agricultural production in many regions, severely threatened ecosystems, and mass extinctions of hundreds of thousands of species...