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• The Dirt on Climate Change

  —The Westerner

  Though they have always been prized by farmers, the dark soils of the Amazon were largely forgotten by science for a century after their discovery. They are now re-emerging as an important topic of study, not because they're an ethnographic or historical curiosity, but because they show an exceptional ability' [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 5:49am EST
  

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• 'Other Men's Horses'

  —The Westerner

  Cletus Slocum stole Donley Bannister's best horse and crip pled it. Now Slocum lay facedown in the dirt, as dead as he would ever be. Bannister was known locally as a horse trader, finding them in faraway places and bringing them to the West Texas hill country for sale. He [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:25am EST
  

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• EPA, BLM dispute slows progress on Superfund site

  —The Westerner

  Bureaucratic snags threaten to slow cleanup of the state's dirtiest abandoned mine, a Superfund site in southern Oregon that leaches 5 million gallons of fish-killing, acid rock drainage into nearby creeks each year. The Formosa mine, a source of copper and zinc until 1993, is on a mix of private [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:11am EST
  

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