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...biologist E.O. Wilson. But these plant species are disappearing now, and people, not comets or volcanoes, are the angels of destruction. Moreover, the earth is suffering the decline of entire ecosystems -- the nurseries of new life-forms. For that reason, Wilson deems this crisis the "death of birth." British ecologist Norman Myers has called it the "greatest single setback to life's abundance and diversity since the first flickerings of life almost 4 billion years...
...push to recategorize the leopard is based on a five-month study, conducted in 23 countries by Rowan Martin, chief ecologist for Zimbabwe's department of national parks and wildlife management, and Belgian Biologist Tom de Meulenaer. The pair used eyewitness accounts and statistical computer modeling to estimate Africa's leopard population at a healthy 700,000 to 850,000. The 75- to 150-lb. cats have even been sighted recently on the outskirts of Nairobi. The biologists went so far as to recommend the resumption of international trade in leopard skins. The best approach to leopard management, they argue...
...beached plastic is unquestionably an eyesore, the problem goes far beyond aesthetics. At the Sixth International Ocean Disposal Symposium in Pacific Grove, Calif., last month, scientists reported that plastic trash is causing injury and death to countless marine animals that feast on it or become ensnared in it. Says Ecologist David Laist, of the Marine Mammal Commission: "Plastics may be as ! great a source of mortality among marine mammals as oil spills, heavy metals or other toxic materials...
Even so, Rosegrant had doubts. But two days before leaving for her freshman year at the University of Michigan, Harvard beefed up Rosegrant's financial aid package. With this new deal, the then-aspiring ecologist accepted Harvard's offer and replied just seven days before Freshman Week...
...problem with joining the flying club is that you soon start buying "Flying" magazine, and then you write to the companies and send for brochures, and you dream of buying a plane." Ecologist and third-year law student Basha Hicks, who passed the ground school test after taking a course with the Harvard Flying Club