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...monarchs, I became ecstatic and vowed to learn more about them," says Rodolfo Ogarrio, a Harvard-trained lawyer who helped start the group. What Ogarrio discovered was that the butterfly's retreats were threatened by the local farmers, who were gradually clearing the trees for timber and farmland. Says Carlos Gottfried, a co-founder of Monarca: "The forests in the mid-'70s were pristine. A few years later they were receding up the mountain...
...billion) has laid off 6.3% of its 80,000 employees this year, and last week it finalized the sale of its carleasing subsidiary to General Electric Credit for some $215 million. BankAmerica's main unit, Bank of America, completed a two-day auction that was billed as the largest farmland sale in California history. The bank put 3,821 fertile acres in the state's Central Valley on the block as a start at unloading 214,000 acres of land that the bank has unwillingly accumulated by foreclosing on bad agricultural loans...
...disaster could be a blow to the area's agricultural output. The noxious cloud settled over fecund farmland, and the long-term costs could be significant. "The farmers here were famous," said an official from the Wum Area Development Authority. "They grew good crops and healthy cattle. This is a rich valley. The farms are the best in the whole region." Unfortunately, the lands surrounding Lake Nios may have to be evacuated permanently if scientists determine that a recurrence seems likely...
...winds on its silent, deadly path. In the first few hours of the Chernobyl disaster, lethal forms of iodine and cesium were released into the atmosphere. They were accompanied by other highly dangerous radioactive emissions. At first the radiation cloud drifted above some of the Soviet Union's best farmland, but then it moved north toward Scandinavia. By week's end an ominous pall of radiation had spread across Eastern Europe and toward the shores of the Mediterranean. How far it would travel and whom it would affect depended on the vagaries of meteorological patterns. For many days, perhaps weeks...
...damage to the earth around Chernobyl was probably equally severe. Up to 60 sq. mi. of Soviet farmland is likely to remain severely contaminated for decades, unless steps are taken to remove the tainted topsoil. Reason: cesium 137 and strontium 90, two radioactive particles spewed by the blaze, decay very slowly. It could take decades for the ground to be free of them. Together with the shorter-lived iodine 131, the substances promise to pose short- and long-term problems for people, crops and animals. Says James Warf, a chemistry professor at the University of Southern California: "I wouldn...