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• - Atlantic Monthly
  
• - New York Times article on the U.S. proposal that countries get as much credit for using forests and farmers' fields to sop up carbon dioxide, the chief warming gas, as they would for cutting emissions from smokestacks and tail pipes.
  
• - BBC News
  
• - BBC News
  
• - New York Times article on the possible pressures faced by Canada's Northwest Passage due to global warming.
  
• - New York Times article reports that changes in the Pacific Ocean are making it more likely that winter weather in much of the U.S. will exhibit unusual warmth alternating with sharp cold.
  
• - New York Times article stating that scientists have found rising concentrations of a newly identified synthetic gas in the air that traps heat more effectively than all other known greenhouse gases.
  
• - Earth's climate will warm up over the next 50 years, whether or not greenhouse gases are curbed soon, U.S. researchers reported.
  
• - The Bush administration plans to withdraw from the 1997 Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions, EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman told reporters on March 27.
  
• - BBC News
  
• - NY Times
  
• - Washington Post article stating that some scientists believe the U.S. may be on the brink of a change in climate patterns that could last 20 or 30 years.