?The Dust Bowl,? a new documentary from Ken Burns, revisits the ?great plow-up? for wheat crops and the crippling drought that followed in the Thirties. [PBS]
A helicopter begins dropping poison bait in the Gal?pagos Islands as part of a broad effort to exterminate 180 million nonnative rats that are threatening unique bird and reptile species there. [Associated Press]
A week before negotiators gather for a climate change conference in Qatar, a World Bank report outlines the devastating projected impacts of a seven-degree rise in temperature, particularly for poorer nations. Meanwhile, researchers advance the argument that the current United Nations structure for negotiations obstructs progress. [Reuters, Nature Climate Change]
A coyote hunting contest in New Mexico that infuriated animal rights advocates ends without major disturbances. The owner of a gun shop south of Albuquerque had offered a shotgun or automatic rifle to the hunter who killed the most animals. [KOB.com]
Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/on-our-radar-the-dust-bowl/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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