From charlotteobserver.com:
RALEIGH Amid the straight edges and gridded streets of downtown Raleigh, a giant ball has appeared at Jones and Salisbury streets, like a colossal marble that has rolled into a corner.
This big yellow ball will become the SECU Daily Planet, a round theater of sorts in
Dr. Neville Winchester, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3N5
Alameyuhu Wassie Eshete, Forestry Department, Bahir Dar, EthiopiaMeg Lowman, PAMS, North Carolina State University, USA
Introduction
Ethiopia is experiencing continual deforestation, and could lose its remaining afro-montane forests within the foreseeable future. In the northern
Worku Mulat has provided us with an update on work being done on the church forests of Ethiopia. The PDF below is in the native language of Amharic for local speakers to enjoy.
Read more →Between 2200 B.C. and 1900 B.C., the Habur Plains of northern Mesopotamia turned to desert. Evidence exists 3000 years ago Sahara desert was a grassland where cattle were grazing. Under business-as-usual scenario, Ethiopia, too, is on a path to ecological collapse. The first home to Homo sapiens
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Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com:
The U.S. military is moving aggressively to reduce its energy “bootprint.”
The Department of Defense is our country’s largest single consumer of energy, using more than 300,000 barrels of oil per day. With an armored Humvee averaging only 4 miles per