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...moment evidence of harm comes to light. But in the desert there's not a lot of margin for error, and a chronic water imbalance can be environmentally devastating. Robert Hershler, a taxonomist at the Smithsonian Institution, has combed through the biota of hundreds of springs in the Great Basin region, including Snake Valley, and has discovered more than 100 new species of spring snails, some of which are confined to a single location. "If their spring dries up, these snails are gone for good," he observes. "They can never come back...
...toward the shallows north of the original crater. Some 1.8 million years ago, the atoll contained an inland sea continually replenished by ocean waters. But as the rising coral walls gradually closed out the ocean, newly deposited sediments' piled up in the forming lagoon. The inland sea shrank, the basin filled with fresh water and, in the warm southern sun, soon became clogged with the rich grasses that formed the Everglades. Central Florida's Lake Okeechobee, says Petuch, is the last remnant of that great, sediment-filled lake...
Harvard’s home waters, the Lower Basin of the Charles, froze over during holidays and didn’t thaw until late, putting the Crimson at a disadvantage by inhibiting practice...
Sinopec is currently involved in the construction of a $65.5 million pipeline that will carry oil from the Melut Basin in the south of the country to Port Sudan, allowing the regime to boost its petroleum exports substantially...
Like home waters on the Lower Basin of the Charles, Austin’s Lake Travis is known for light, shifty winds...