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Awakening to Sea Level Rise

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments

By Kahrin Deines/Medill - Smith Island, MD
Only one excited voice and the whirr of overhead fans broke the rapt silence of the open-air tabernacle where Smith Island’s annual “camp meeting” takes place.  
Itinerant Methodist preacher Eric Clark was working his way – and his audience – into a fervor.  Between breaths and pauses to call for ‘Amens,’ his […]

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What happens in Alaska, won’t stay in Alaska

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

By Angela Nitzke/Medill

 
Humans won’t go extinct if the planet warms up a few degrees, surmised Richard, who sat next to me on my flight from Anchorage to Chicago.  Probably true, but a lot could change that would influence the way we live our lives. And in Alaska, climate change is not a computer modeled prediction. […]

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King Coal and the Mother Teresa of rural Appalachia

July 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

(Photos by Frank Carlson)
Wildflowers grow along state route TN-90 in the Cumberland Mountains near the community of Eagan, Tenn.
By Frank Carlson, Medill
So we’re halfway through our week of reporting on the history and impact of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility and arguably the original “green collar” developer. And one theme that […]

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