Pat Joseph

Pat Joseph’s writing and reporting have appeared in various publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Salon, Scientific American, and Smithsonian. He lives in Oakland, California.

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The Ass’s Dilemma: Can Man Engineer the Climate?

By Pat Joseph

Spring 2009

In 1816 the summer never came. Across New England and the Maritimes, late snows and repeated frosts led to crop failures, livestock deaths, and severe food shortages. In Europe, which was struggling to recover from the extended cataclysm of the Napol [...]

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Soy in the Amazon

By Pat Joseph

Fall 2007

Soybeans and rainforest collide in the Brazilian Amazon. We caught a predawn flight out of Cuiabá. The plane headed north in darkness, vaulting over the invisible mesas and out across the vast tablelands of the planalto. The sun came up on [...]

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