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...Corps rarely follows up on its mitigation promises. And this pump would degrade at least twice as many wetlands as all of America's developers drain in a typical year, in a waterlogged area with bountiful fisheries, one of the Mississippi basin's last swaths of bottomland hardwood forest, and one of North America's key foraging grounds for migratory birds. "The Corps has a lot of projects that are horrible for the environment," says Melissa Samet, the water resources director for American Rivers and one of the founders of the Corps Reform Network. "But the Yazoo Pump...
...Lake Forest, Ill. and Winthrop House...
News of the sale of the Maine homes followed rumors of a transaction involving another restricted gift: the 99-acre Harvard Forest in Hamilton, Mass, located about 30 miles northeast of the Cambridge campus...
...players on NHL rosters today, only 12 are black - a level that has remained flat over the last decade. "Sport as an institution doesn't just fall out of the sky," says Earl Smith, a Wake Forest University sociologist who wrote about blacks in hockey in his 2007 book Race, Sport and the American Dream. "It has to be embedded in the community, in the society the sport is trying to reach. For the NHL, it's a losing proposition...
Another worrying aspect comes in the westerly shift of deforestation. Thursday's figures show a large increase in forest degradation in Rondonia, a remote state bordering Bolivia. Rondonia had avoided much of the destruction but the new figures show that deforestation there is almost equal to that in Para, a state five times the size...