Curt Stager, a scientist at Paul Smiths College, is publishing
an article later this month in the journal Science that
describes an ancient drought that transformed Asia and Africa
thousands of years ago. The "H1 mega-drought" may have wiped out
whole tribes of humans, as it dried up rivers and lakes across
whole continents. As Brian Mann reports, Stager thinks that
devastating event could be a warning for people living in a new
period of global warming. The Department of Corrections will
close two more prisons this year, bringing to a total of nine
the number... The General Brown Central School District in
Dexter, along with... Twenty-five years ago, Curt Stager was
paddling the waters of Lake Barombi Mbo in Cameroon. He and
other researchers had rigged a crude drilling platform – not
searching for oil, but rooting around for the deep layers of
muck that have been settling on the bottom of the lake for
millenia. "We built the raft," Stager recalled. "We strung 10
foot long sections of pipe together…it plunge