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I spent a year in Canada as a teenager in 1993 and ’94, living in the metro Toronto neighborhood of Scarborough, which for some reason Canadians think is hilarious. Aside from the unfortunate 1993 World Series — damn you, Joe Carter — I loved it. I was from white-bread suburban Pennsylvania, and Toronto was one [...]
ABIGAIL BORAH, 21-year-old Middlebury College junior, interrupting U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern at the U.N. climate change summit in Durban, South Africa. The U.S. has come under sharp criticism from the international community and environmentalists for standing in the way of further action on global warming, though Stern indicated that the U.S. [...]
However you slice it, the scientific news has not been good on the pace of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. The weekend saw a pair of new studies that confirmed the fact that—far from curbing greenhouse gas emissions—we’re warming the atmosphere faster than ever, even as the slow-moving U.N. climate talks underway now at [...]
