Articles from the February 13, 2015 edition

Feb 13, 2015

Atop Hwy. 242 The year 2014 was the hottest on Earth in 134 years of record-keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, continuing a pattern of global warming that is attributed primarily to rising levels of greenhouse gases. Oregon was not exempt from the warming and logged the second hottest year since records were kept beginning in 1895, according to researchers with the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. “We had a warm summer, and now a warm winter and that’s where we...