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...authorities prefer to blame extreme weather conditions, including strong winds and back-to-back heatwaves that have turned Greece, and much of the Balkans, into a tinderbox. Still, rumors abound that some of the blazes may have been caused by arsonists hired by greedy developers to torch precious patches of greenery on which they want to build. In the last 20 years, large tracts of land have been cleared around Athens by fires, and eight of them have been cleared for construction because Greece lacks a forest register and effective legislation protecting the environment, conservationists argue. "The law," says Nikolaos...
...invested 600 million Australian dollars in its water infrastructure, and thinks for the state to shell out $7.6 million on a cloud seeding experiment is a worthwhile risk. "If it proves to do something, then it has to have some benefit," she says. "If we're seeing such weird weather - if we're going to have to pump water all over Australia via huge pipelines - wouldn't it be wiser to find another way?" she asks. "It would be worth...
...cloud seeding expert with the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, what's different about the Queensland project is that for the first time, scientists will be able to take full advantage of a simple premise: some clouds are better for seeding than others. Up to now, the right weather-measuring tools have never been in the right program at the right time. Starting in November, they will be. A project staff of about 30 will use a recently installed CP2 Doppler radar to analyze what's happening in the regions' clouds before, during and after silver iodide "seeds...
...Weathermen—or the Weather Underground, as they were later known—were, as my intoxicated adversaries explained to me, America’s own Montoneros. They had abandoned passivity in favor of concrete action in the late 1960s and 1970s, bombing public buildings across the country, including the U.S. Capitol. They had made the leap that my fellow American anti-Bushies and I are too meek to even consider. U.S. history isn’t devoid of examples of radical resistance, they said. We simply choose to ignore them...
...Thursday, more than 500 people braved the rain in the tiny town of Sunapee (population 3,355), about 45 miles north of Manchester, to hear Obama speak at an ice cream social. Obama timed his remarks with the weather perfectly: the driving rain relented as he began to speak and resumed literally as his car door was shutting...