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2000
NOVEMBER
November 29, 2000
Rough Weather
A look at the intensifying politics of global warming in the wake of the summit at The Hague. Ray Suarez leads a discussion with Gregg Easterbrook, author of "A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism," and Mark Hertsgaard, author of "Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of our Environmental Future."
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AUGUST
August 25, 2000
Up
In Flames
Tom Bearden reports from the front lines of the exhausting fight
against forest fires in Montana.
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August 23, 2000
Managing
Disaster
More than 5.5 million acres of land have burned in the U.S. this
year. After a background
report, Margaret Warner leads a discussion on forest management policy and
its role in this year's devastating fire season.
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August 7, 2000
Scorched
Earth
Fires continue to rage in several Western states. An update of the
status of the firefighting efforts.
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JUNE
June 29, 2000
Wild
Fires
A wildfire rages near buried nuclear waste at the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation in Washington State. Governor Gary Locke gives an update on the
status of the wildfire and the danger that it poses.
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June 5, 2000
Low
Water
The past winter was the warmest and in many states the driest
on record. Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW in Chicago examines the continuing drought
in the Midwest.
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MAY
May 26, 2000
After
the Fires
Correspondent Tom Bearden talks about the aftermath of
the devastating fires in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as residents begin to return.
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May 18, 2000
What
Went Wrong?
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and New Mexico Governor
Gary Johnson talk about who is to blame for the fires that have devastated much
of the Los Alamos, New Mexico, area.
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May 11, 2000
Firestorm
Governor Gary Johnson, Buddy Young, regional director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt discuss the fires raging
in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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May 1, 2000
Forest
Fight
Correspondent Tom Bearden reports on a fight over forests in
the southeast United States.
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MARCH
March 22, 2000
Cycles of Destruction
One India town is now struggling to recover from a massive cyclone. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Minnesota's Twin Cities Public Television reports. |
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JANUARY
January 20, 2000
After
the Floods
Correspondent Tom Bearden reports on efforts to cleanup
and rebuild in North Carolina, four months after the devastating floods left
by Hurricane Floyd. |
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WEATHER & NATURAL DISASTERS
