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...while these studies have sparked much talk about the Greenhouse Effect, the work of one Harvard biologist points to other adverse environmental effects--that the high carbon dioxide content is making plants less healthy and ultimately throwing the ecosystem off balance...
...become twisted at times, my personality has split and I now demand that people call me Zeus. Yes, that's right. I came to Harvard thinking that I would grow up to become some sort of biologist, and instead, I have emerged as chief deity of the Greek pantheon, all because of my twisted desire to wreak vengeance on the vermin that feast on me, my friends and my food (in the case of the mice...
Although few restoration projects are more than a decade old, many have already begun to generate encouraging results. In Costa Rica, University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen is helping rebuild a nearly extinct tropical dry forest in the 110,000-hectare (272,000-acre) Guanacaste Conservation Area, which until five years ago had been overrun by cattle and torched annually by ranchers and hunters. In California, at the Nature Conservancy's Coachella Valley Preserve, a few dozen volunteers felled thousands of salt cedar trees that had sucked this small desert area nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance...
...scientists learned, to their dismay, that grasses in the artificial marsh did not grow high enough to provide the beetle predators of these pests with waterproof living quarters. Today, five years after its construction, this underachieving wetland continues to struggle along. Its grasses are stunted, its food web impoverished. Biologist Joy Zedler, director of San Diego State University's Pacific Estuarine Research Laboratory, awards the restoration effort a barely passing grade. "I doubt we'll ever produce A+ wetlands," she bleakly concludes...
...pioneer James D. Watson named Harvard biologist Walter Gilbert and Harvard biochemist Mark S. Ptashne...