On Our Radar: 'The Dust Bowl' "The Dust Bowl," a new documentary from Ken Burns, revisits the "great plow-up" for wheat crops and the crippling drought that followed in the Thirties. A helicopter begins dropping poison bait in the Galápagos Islands as part of a broad effort to exterminate 180 million nonnative rats that are threatening unique bird and reptile species there. A week before negotiators gather for a climate change conference in Qatar, a World Bank report outlines the devastating projected impacts of a seven-degree rise in temperature, particularly for poorer nations. Meanwhile, researchers advance the argument that the current United Nations structure for negotiations obstructs progress. Reuters, Nature Climate Change A coyote hunting contest in New Mexico that infuriated animal rights advocates ends without major disturbances. The owner of a gun shop south of Albuquerque had offered a shotgun or automatic rifle to the hunter who killed the most animals. KOB.com