Word: ecosystems
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...that G.M. foods are necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I hope that Europe is being too cautious with their draconian labelling and fear of frankenfoods. These space-age crops have the potential to end famine, cure endemic nutritional diseases and even reduce ecosystem damage caused by pesticide use. But without more rigorous testing and additional research we simply do not know enough about them. U.S. companies have not yet earned the right to impose genetically modified foods on other countries or the U.S. public itself...
ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM Currents and winds have carried the slick through coastal fishing grounds and across nearly 200 miles of shoreline. The sludge has coated hundreds of seabirds and closed local fisheries. Now other areas are threatened: shellfish beds and a nature preserve for marine birds, including the near extinct Iberian guillemot...
...friendly scale, bivalves generally rate highest among the more than 220 species of fish and shellfish that are cultivated commercially. Mussels and oysters are filter-feeders that make the surrounding water cleaner, so small-scale farming of them is not usually harmful to the ecosystem. Farming of crayfish in China--the largest supplier to the U.S.--is a relatively low-maintenance, drug-free business carried out in rice paddies. Next come the vegetarian freshwater species that do not need large quantities of fish meal--carp, catfish and tilapia. At the bottom are salmon and shrimp, onetime luxury foods that, thanks...
...stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover from Asia's 1997 economic crisis. "The bomb blast in Bali hurts a situation that is already bad," says Muhammad Chatib Basri...
...with a radio collar to monitor his movements. But just weeks later, the radio signals stopped. A local park warden believes that Baba was killed, probably by a hunter keen for such a rare trophy. For centuries, the Iberian lynx has been an exotic part of the region's ecosystem. But now a deadly combination of habitat destruction and lack of food threatens the big cats' survival. Earlier this month, the World Conservation Union (I.U.C.N.) upgraded the lynx's status to critically endangered...