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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Noah Man's Land Major new study says severe weather is likely on the way		18 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Noah Man's Land Major new study says severe weather is likely on the way Winter as we know it in the northeast U.S. will vanish. Summers across the country will be hotter, particularly in the parched Southwest. Rain will be less frequent but more torrential when it happens. Loss of property will be "catastrophic," exotic diseases will spread, species will die off. Skippee doo! These apocalyptic scenarios are ...
Topics: climate, news, Northeast, Southwest (all these topics)

Don't Get Fresh With Me Regional FWS director warns employees against using new science		24 May 2005	Daily Grist
Don't Get Fresh With Me Regional FWS director warns employees against using new science The southwestern regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service doesn't like his science fresh. He recently issued a memo instructing his staff to disregard any genetic science about an endangered species conducted after the species was listed under the Endangered Species Act (in some cases as far back as the 1970s). His ...
Topics: marine life, news, Southwest, wildlife (all these topics)

Rivers and Tithes Judge Rules Government Must Pay for Withheld Water		26 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Rivers and Tithes Judge Rules Government Must Pay for Withheld Water In a case that could have substantial implications for enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, a federal judge ruled recently that the U.S. government must pay California irrigators some $14 million for water it withheld from them ...
Topics: California, climate, environmental justice, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, Southwest, water conflicts, wildlife (all these topics)

Oinks Per Gallon		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Oinks Per Gallon The waste from hundreds of thousands of hogs will soon be powering vehicle diesel engines if Smithfield Farms follows through on a plan announced Friday. Smithfield, the world's largest hog producer, intends to build a $20 million waste-to-energy facility in southwestern Utah that will convert swine manure into biodiesel fuel, which burns more cleanly tha ...
Topics: placemaking, renewable energy, solid waste treatment and disposal, Southwest, Utah (all these topics)

Changing Their Tuna		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Changing Their Tuna In other marine news, a new report released by the federal government has found that dolphin populations in the Pacific Ocean are failing to recover from years of tuna fishing, and that some 3,000 dolphins are still killed by tuna boats every year. The report, by the U.S. Commerce Department ...
Topics: Colombia, Department of Commerce, international government agencies, marine life, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Southwest, United States, Venezuela (all these topics)

Steal These Books A review of Affluenza and Red	Elizabeth Grossman	14 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
There's been a tendency since Sept. 11 to reconsider everything in light of that horrific tragedy. I've tried to resist that inclination, but I had read both Affluenza and Red before that day and could not ignore the way the attacks highlighted the importance of the books' divergent subject matters: our desire for the good life, which has made us the greatest consumers on earth; and the need to protect the wild pla ...
Topics: green living, Southwest, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? Lisa Hymas reviews The New Wolves by Rick Bass	Lisa Hymas	14 May 1999	Arts and Minds
The New Wolves by Rick Bass Lyons Press, 1998, 184 pages In The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest, Rick Bass ambles pensively and passionately through the controversial ground in Arizona's Blue Mountains where Mexican wolves are being reintroduced. He walks alongside a host of folks with divergent perspectives on the reintroduction effort: unflappable f ...
Topics: Southwest, wildlife (all these topics)

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