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Emir sheikh hamad ben khalifa al fani. the monarch who was the emir of qatar until last year he passed to his son. but the father is still a powerful figure in that tiny nation and personally attended the graduation at west point to mark the occasion of the fist cadet from his country to graduate from the u.s. military academy. qatar and the united states have a very long and close and complex set of military ties. the u.s. military divides the world into different commands, right, afrikaans, for example, the african command. centcom is central command, which kovrs the middle east and huge swa...

To close down. they didn't have to close down because of the seat bells, didn't have to close down because they had to put in catalytic converters and eventually meet mileage standards. and the clean air act of 1970 did help in terms of terrible air pollution. by the 1980s, though, there were new worries, new worries about a hole in the ozone layer that was being created by a very specific group of chemicals that were then in wide use. even if that was a scary idea, the ozone layer still was way up there, right? way up there somewhere. you couldn't see it. and even though we were worried about...

River plain of new york's adirondack park. it looks beautiful and serene, picture postcard perfect. however, indian lake is dead. indian lake is not an isolated example. over a quarter of the 2,700 lakes and ponds in the adirondack park, a preserve as big as vermont, are so acidic they can no longer support fish life. they, too, are dying. it isn't just the lakes that are being killed by acid rain. it's the forests as well. >> that was the national treasure that is al roker doing that report on the "today" show in 1988. that was july of 1988. and at that time, the other thing going on in the c...

Catalytic converters and eventually meet mileage standards. and the clean air act of 1970 did help in terms of terrible air pollution. by the 1980s, though, there were new worries, new worries about a hole in the ozone layer that was being created by a very specific group of chemicals that were then in wide use. even if that was a scary idea, the ozone layer still was way up there, right? way up there somewhere. you couldn't see it. and even though we were worried about that, we had a much more earthbound concern about something called acid rain. >> when we talk about the environment, one of t...

Mark the occasion of the fist cadet from his country to graduate from the u.s. military academy. qatar and the united states have a very long and close and complex set of military ties. the u.s. military divides the world into different commands, right, afrikaans, for example, the african command. centcom is central command, which kovrs the middle east and huge swaths of asia. centcom has been the command in charge of the iraq and afghanistan wars. centcom's overseas headquarters are in qatar. when the united states tried to start a process of peace talks with the taliban to find a political e...