Word: weather
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...Weather Forecast Despite the uncertainty of the science of climate change, some effects of global warming are hard to ignore, like the unexpected meltdown of Greenland's glaciers and the extinction of frog species in the American tropics. TIME's Oct. 19, 1987, cover story provided an early warning about mankind's impact on the earth's climate...
...Today the landscape they knew looks empty but for lonely turrets of sediment eaten away by the weather and dunes shimmering under a scalding sky. Parched flocks of galahs drift on the hot wind. Yet the Willandra Lakes region, which in 1981 became a 240,000-hectare World Heritage Area, has in the past 30 years yielded astounding archaeological treasures. In 1968 the dunes surrendered Mungo Lady, the skeletal remains of a young woman whose burial site remains the oldest evidence of cremation ever found. The ocher-covered bones of the world's oldest known ritual burial, Mungo Man, were...
...being used. A group of Aboriginal women sit filling dozens of knee-high stockings with hot sand. Barefoot, they then move carefully over the dazzlingly white claypan, its surface cracked like china and scattered with cinnamon-colored sand, placing a stocking on each print to shield it from the weather. "How our people survived," says Mary Pappin Sr., "is all written here in these sands." Around her the silent dunes crouch in the sun - guardians, perhaps, of still more extraordinary secrets...
...Eighteen girls from two villages on the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal island were either forced at gunpoint or given money or food to have sex with militants which resulted in them becoming pregnant. One of the girls, who was 11 when she was raped, told researchers her attacker still lives in her village: "I am now 14 years old and he still has sex with me nearly every week...
...leak, discovered by a passing BP field worker who smelled the snow-covered oil early on the morning of March 2, has triggered a massive cleanup in dangerous, subzero weather, and has cut North Slope oil production by 12%, or nearly 100,000 barrels a day, because the leaky pipeline and more than 200 wells were shut down. The reduced production could last weeks longer...