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Paying tribute to a special professor who made a difference
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Dick Yarbrough
Updated: Jul 26, 2017, 5:00 AM
Published: Jul 25, 2017, 7:41 PM
If you are a regular observer of this space, you are no doubt familiar with the story I am about to share. I have told it several times over the years. With your indulgence, I would like to tell it again.
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Guest column: The climate crisis, an existential threat
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Published: Aug 6, 2021, 4:00 PM
An article in the January 2020 journal BioScience, endorsed by more than 11,000 scientists worldwide, stated that “the climate crisis has arrived” and that an “immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis.”
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