The Cannibal Cop Fantasy, Homeless Female Veterans, and IBM's Chef Watson
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Historians, take note: On this day, which is not a day in 1732, a boundary dispute between two Southern states took a turn for the wet.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Discovered: A deadly new disease infects two humans; big international investors tell governments to get tough on climate change; drought is here to stay in Iowa; underwater light is dimming, driving fish away.
Discovered: High CO2 levels make office workers dumb; drought drags down GDP; there's no reason why green farming can't make money; warming oceans drive plankton toward the poles.
Trick-or-treaters better appreciate their treats this season.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Ship traffic on the Mississippi River was briefly shut down yesterday and salt from the Gulf of Mexcio is threatening the drinking water upriver as the severe drought has pushed water levels far below their usual depths.
Cool discovery of the week: scientists have found a massive aquifer in northern Namibia, the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, and even though its water is 10,000 years old, it's still way safer to drink than the country's other options.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
More than 50 percent of the United States is under drought conditions right now, putting 2012 in the same category with some of the worst droughts in our history.
The blistering summer and ongoing drought conditions have the prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to declare a federal disaster area in more than 1,000 counties covering 26 states.
Discovered: Record breaking U.S. droughts, China has more child diabetes than the U.S., things look bad for the coral reef, and a human-like robot eye.
The Associated Press on soldiers in the melting Arctic, The Texas Tribune on uranium mining, Christian Science Monitor on solar panels in Germany, The Washington Post on saving the seahorse, and The Guardian on the drought in England
In your potentially troubling environmental news of the day, there are only two states in the U.S. that aren't experiencing "abnormally dry" or drought conditions, meaning that the country is the driest its been since 2007.
Monday's best green reads: NPR on the Texas drought, Mother Jones on anti-coal activism, The New York Times on uranium-mine radiation, The Guardian on measuring global warming, and Good on an eco-friendly pantry.
2011 has been both the hottest and driest summer for Texas in at least 116 years
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