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...know is that conservationists will have to work even harder, trying to minimize non climate-related threats to land and species even as the human population grows by billions. All are agreed that the conservation movement of the future will need to be as inter-connected as the Earth's climate itself, because in a crowded, warmer world there will be no islands. Regardless of what we do, the changes will be coming fast - a report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 27 said that global warming was already having "profound effects" in the American West...
...Zimmerman and his classmates were just getting back in the rhythm of their final year at the College, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, which would orbit the Earth for the next three months...
...United States after being hired by The Times. It was at this time that he met his future wife Susan Margulies, a staff writer for The New Yorker who would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book “Is There No Place On Earth...
...truism in politics: support for environmental causes tends to be broad, but shallow. Broad, because most voters support political action to protect the Earth, and not even the most conservative of politicians want to be seen as standing against it. Shallow, because few Americans really allow environmental issues to dictate their votes - and politicians know...
...fiery 7-min. plunge through the atmosphere, during which it opened its parachutes, jettisoned its heat shield, fired its engines and decelerated from a blistering 12,700 m.p.h. (20,400 km/h) to a toe-in-the-dust touchdown speed of a few feet per second. With Mars and Earth currently 171 million miles (275 million km) apart, however, signals from the ship need a full 15 min. 20 sec. to get here, meaning NASA did not confirm the 7-min. plunge until 8 min. after it ended. If the ship had crashed, the stream of incoming data would have been...