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...which now costs the city $13 billion a year in lost economic productivity and dirties New York's air, which is more polluted than that of any other city in the country besides Los Angeles. "It's an essential idea," says Steven Cohen, executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute. (See the top 10 green ideas...
Pretty nearly all the animal species that existed during Earth's history are gone. There may be at least 8 million species of life on the planet right now, but there are many millions more that exist only as fossils or in the mind's eye of zoologists. In this week's cover story for our annual Environment issue, Bryan Walsh writes that there have been five great waves of extinction in the planet's history--the most recent being 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs bit the dust. Now, he suggests, we may be entering the sixth. Some...
Bryan's story grew out of a trip he took to the African nation of Madagascar last year. Madagascar is a living museum of animal diversity, a country the size of France that may have as many as 5% of all the species on Earth. But it is also an ecological "hot spot,"--a place of extreme biodiversity that is under great threat. Bryan was accompanied by primatologist Russell Mittermeier, who is president of Conservation International, one of the world's best-known wildlife-preservation groups. It is helping Madagascar grow an ecotourism industry that will help save not only...
...Bachmann pauses to urinate by the side of the road: “With birdie in hand, he looked up at the stars. Eternity, eternity, said a Nietzschean murmur within him, how big you are! O starlight that floods the cosmos (his arc grew shorter and shorter)! Heaven and earth, clouds and space! said Bachmann aloud. Not so loud! Halftan called.” These are the moments when Bachmann’s personal experiences of the war and his mental trauma become beautiful and disturbing without dwelling on the historical, social, or political context. While the latter half...
...mother played this when she got the divorce papers,” she explained without inquiry. Stunned, I did what any human would do in my situation—I asked the manager on duty to put on That Funk. Upon exiting the ladies room, makeup comparatively less smudged, Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Boogie Wonderland” welcomed her back. A fortified smile quickly emerged over her still salt-stained face. Moving confidently to a full banquette, she plied a group of patrons to order another round of cocktails, and it was as if nothing...