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"If you stand on a mountaintop in Colorado you can look in every direction and see dead trees. It is everywhere."
--Jim Robbins on the impact of pine beetle infestations

Soaring oil prices, coupled with climate change, is making commercial aviation not only unpopular but maybe impossible. Is the mile-high club about to end for good?

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is famous for the secrecy and security that shrouds the legal proceedings of its detainees. But what is like to be a reporter there? USA Today’s Alan Gomez was at Guantanamo. He joins The Takeaway to share his experience, Irish pubs and all.