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| PRACTICAL TRAVELER | LODGING AT NATIONAL PARKS; Canyons and Geysers Are Still Within Reach Procrastinators can still find space at popular park lodges this summer, if they’re willing to be flexible. travel.nytimes.com |
John Noble, Gulag Survivor, Dies at 84 (New York Times) Mr. Noble, an American, survived a Soviet gulag and wrote books on the grim, decade-long experience. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Some forest roads closed for winter (Calaveras Enterprise) Effective Dec. 3, Forest Service roads with seasonal closure gates will be closed until spring, due to anticipated wet conditions. Once the seasonal closure gates are locked, passenger vehicle travel will not be allowed on these roads until drier conditions return. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Bali begins: what does your climate treaty look like? [Re-posted from Greenery & Other Fine Things to Look At]It's time to play name the "son of Kyoto!" Will it be the Bali Breakthrough? Gratuitous Bali photo© David BielloOr, dare I say it, the Copenhagen Consenus (not Lomborg's but some kind of consensus treaty negotiated in that fair city in 2009)?Who cares? Either is better than the much derided Kyoto Protocol which, I'll grant, has a certain spy thriller appeal but at this point is outpaced in sexiness by an Al Gore PowerPoint slide. rss.sciam.com |
Turning Pollution into DVDs [News] Researchers announced this week that they are perfecting a procedure designed to turn pollution into a type of plastic used to make everything from DVDs to eyeglass lenses. The effort is being touted as a way to capture and use climate change–causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources instead of releasing it into the atmosphere or burying it underground. [More] rss.sciam.com |