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We know that global warming causes more hurricanes, but do trees have anything to do with global warming?

Biologist Jeffrey Chambers discovered that the losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on Gulf Coast forest trees were enough to cancel out a year’s worth of new tree growth in other parts of the country. And trees absorb carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.

Chamber says, “The carbon that will be released as these trees decompose is enough to cancel out an entire year’s worth of net gain by all US forests. And this is only from a single storm.” Investigators estimate that 320 million large trees were killed or severely damaged by the August 2005 storm.
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Watching media violence significantly increases the risk that a viewer or video game player will behave aggressively in both the short and long term.

Researcher L. Rowell Huesmann looked at more than half a century of research on the impact of exposure to violence in television, movies, video games and on the Internet. He says, “The research clearly shows that exposure to virtual violence increases the risk that both children and adults will behave aggressively.”
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In Anne Strieber’s new diary, she writes: “The more experiences I have in life, the more I realize that everything is made up of stories, from the tales of individual lives to the histories of places and civilizations. Every culture has its own particular legends, and religions are all made up of stories. I think I’ve finally figured out why this is.” And read Whitley’s new journal about The Key as well!

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For the first time, a study has linked asthma in adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study of male twins who were veterans of the Vietnam War suggests that the association between asthma and PTSD is not primarily explained by genes. Does this mean that our Iraq War vets will come home not only deaf, but also asthmatic?
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