environment: June 2009

What do 90° in Seattle, a heat index of 100° in Boston and a heat index of 105° in Chicago have in common?
They all trigger a heat advisory issuance by the National Weather Service, like we had in Western Washington today. (Sea-Tac set a record high of 89°.)
So why the lack of consistency? It has to do with what people are acclimated to in different parts of the country. When it comes to heat, apparently we're weather wimps here in...

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Today a national bird protection group called for cat protection groups to give up a popular birth control method.
Trap, neuter, and release, or TNR, is a favorite strategy because it prevents millions of unwanted kitten births and allows fixed cats to live out their days in the wild.
But the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) group says when those cats are released, they eat millions of song birds nationwide.
Both sides have so...

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