Word: ecosystems
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Sich said his study shows, however, that the dam is having adverse effects on the surrounding ecosystem. It is holding back ground water and raising the water table, which is now a mere 15 feet below ground...
...owners and only care about saving their own businesses. "People are paying expensive prices for building materials there." Counters Brian Herman, a lawyer and hardware-store owner involved with the coalition: "Everybody knows they're out to kill the little guy. That store changes the face of the economic ecosystem for the whole community...
Until now. Having completed their sojourn inside the largest self-sustaining ecosystem ever built -- and having set a world record for time spent in a sealed environment -- the Biospherians were more than ready last Sunday to come back to planet earth, or, as they call it, Biosphere 1. Just before their release, they finally began to speak out. For observers outside (including 600 tourists a day who spent as much as $12.95 to peer through the glass), it is as if laboratory animals suddenly started to describe life inside the maze...
...panic. Just hang up, take a deep breath, and log on again. You're not going to Panama, after all, just to a machine somewhere in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And what you are exploring is not an exotic ecosystem but a computer system called...
...issue, despite bumper stickers that squawked I LIKE SPOTTED OWLS -- FRIED and SAVE AN OWL, EDUCATE A LOGGER. But, as David Seideman points out in this thoughtful portrait of an Oregon logging town struggling with the severe decline of its only industry, the U.S. does not have an "Endangered Ecosystem Act." So, to save the last scraps of ancient, old-growth forest in the Northwest, environmentalists used the endangered status of a rare, shy bird that few Americans had heard of and fewer had seen. Timber jobs, however, are being lost less to owl huggers than to automation...