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...several independent groups have compiled lists of green materials. The Rainforest Alliance, for example, has researched the tropical hardwood trade (estimated at $7 billion a year) and come up with a list of woods, like rubberwood, grown on Malaysian plantations, whose harvest does little damage to the rain forest...
Observations of apes in the wild provide further insights. In the Tai forest in the Ivory Coast, Swiss biologist Christophe Boesch points out a flat piece of granite with two small hollows on the top. The rock has marks from heavy use for some purpose. "If an anthropologist came upon this in the forest," says Boesch, "he might think he had found a human artifact." Instead, it is used by chimpanzees for nut cracking. The chimps place a panda nut in one of the depressions and then smash it with a smaller stone. Boesch has watched a mother chimp instruct...
...admitted to furnishing alcohol to a minor to illustrate a story on teen drinking. NBC itself went back on air with another admission of error, this time for using footage of fish supposedly killed during clear-cutting of timber on government land. In reality, one shot depicted a different forest while another showed fish that were not dead, only stunned by researchers for testing. In the most dramatic act of contrition, NBC News president Michael Gartner acknowledged that the GM controversy would not die and abruptly resigned last week, saying he hoped to "take the spotlight...
Once conditions are right, it doesn't take much to trigger a slide. And usually, there is very little warning. "Sometimes you hear a crack like thunder," says U.S. Forest Service research scientist Sue Ferguson, who has been caught in several small slides. "Sometimes the avalanche releases quietly, like rustling silk." Traveling at speeds that can exceed 80 m.p.h., the rushing snowpack compresses the air at its prow, generating a wind blast strong enough to smash windows and hurl skiers into trees. Once the avalanche stops, the snow mass solidifies, entombing its victims in an icy grip...
...land in Mississippi is being deforested around our school," Schwarzendruber said. "I could relate my research in the Acadia forest to something they [students] had been hearing about...