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(August 15, 2007) Iceland is shrouded in a permanent low-pressure system. Far to the south, the Azores are shrouded in permanent highs. Both pressure systems rock, from east to west and with ever-changing intensity, in the process controlling the North Atlantic’s westerly winds. Continue reading →

(July 28, 2007) He’s called the world’s most famous hurricane expert, not because he likes to fly into hurricanes to experience them up close – which he does – but because of what he’s learned from them, up there, buffeted by the fury of nature. Continue reading →

(July 17, 2007) Bob Carter, a professor at James Cook University (Queensland) and the University of Adelaide (South Australia), is a paleontologist, a stratigrapher, and a marine geologist. Continue reading →

(July 7, 2007) We are doomed, say climate change scientists assoiated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that is organizing most of the climate change research occurring in the world today. Continue reading →

(June 29, 2007) He’s the world’s most cited climatologist, according to an analysis in the journal of the British Institute of Geographers. He’s also the fifth-most-cited physical geographer in the world, and the 11th most cited among all geographers. Continue reading →