The range and variety of Jane Smiley's work as a writer of fiction have resulted in a great deal of critical attention, a wide and committed readership, and several different perceptions of her achiev...
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Jane Smiley has also won acclaim for her work as an author of short fiction. In The Age of Grief: Stories and a Novella (1987), Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Nove...
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Global Warming: If the rock stars who flew hundreds of thousands of miles in their jets to save the earth wanted to hug trees, they could have hugged the forest that once covered Greenland.We didn'...
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OSLO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Climate change has caused the
greatest thaw of Greenland's ice in half a century, perhaps
heralding a wider meltdown that would quicken a rise in world
sea levels, scienti...
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(Reuters) - The world's biggest emitters of
global-warming greenhouse gases met behind closed doors
Wednesday for a U.S.-sponsored conference as protesters pointed
up Hawaii's vulnerability to cli...
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Thanks in part to the Gulf Stream, palm trees survive the winter in southwestern England and the fjords of Norway never freeze. Here's how it works:As the Gulf Stream flows northward, the surface w...
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An ice sheet in Antarctica that is the world's largest _ with enough water to raise global sea levels by 200 feet _ is relatively stable and poses no immediate threat, according to new research.Whi...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Greenland ice sheet
melted at a record rate this year, the largest ever since
satellite measurements began in 1979, a top climate scientist
reported Monday. "The amount ...
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Most climate researchers use weather balloons, satellites, deep-sea submersibles or ice-drilling rigs to mine their data on global warming. A biologist at the University of Washington has turned to...
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From the deck of a research ship moored in these gusty north Atlantic islands, workers are offloading three bright orange buoys whose sonar devices will help Bogi Hansen fill more gaps in an intrig...
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445 was the hot number at the global warming conference in Bangkok this week. For the United States, China and India, that number _ which represents parts per million of greenhouse gases in the atm...
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The International Whaling Commission passed a resolution Thursday that upholds a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling.The move on the final day of the commission's annual meeting essentially sn...
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Jane (Graves) Smiley
Jive Earth
