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The raucous clamor is soon followed by the rising of the sun. It comes up quickly on the southern continent, since it is so close to the equator. Under the dense canopy of rainforest, it is hardly noticed--just a gradual lifting of the grey understorey dimness.
The toads, introduced to the continent 50 years ago in a failed attempt to control the sugar cane-eating beetle, were all over the paths around camp on rainy nights. The squat, green creatures have multiplied out of control, and they are often systematically killed by motorists and biologists.
Lemonick's ten-day visit to the starkly beautiful continent gave new meaning to the phrase working round the clock. For one thing, the sun never sets there during the summer months, which in the southern hemisphere stretch from October to March. Says Lemonick: "At 3 a.m. it looked like...
Growing crowds of scientists, workers and tourists have put increasing pressure on the frozen land's fragile ecosystems. More ominous are threats of oil drilling and mining. All agree development must be controlled, but squabbling over how may doom earth's last pristine continent.
Leka, the son of Albania's first and last native-born monarch, King Zog, told the South African newspaper Business Day last week that he plans to launch a blitz by balloon, attaching leaflets advocating revolution to helium bags and floating them over his homeland. With the rest of Eastern...