It's all been too much this year. For everyone and for me, too. Personally, I've been working too many hours and overextending myself financially even beyond that. My Plan is coming together, but so slowly!

But as Mike said, the Earth is a big, complex system, and things happen slowly there, too. Here is some of the things that are happening:

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In the summer of 2014, a group of over 80 scientists from several countries (sorry, can't find a list) sailed on the Swedish ice-breaker Odin to study the arctic ocean, Natalia Shakhova of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and Igor Semiletov from the Russian Academy of Science. Shakhova and Semiletov have been studying the arctic for over 20 ( Read more... )