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...Central Asia -- 10 years ago the fourth largest inland sea in the world, now dead, its fishing fleets stranded surreally in dry desert. The water that once fed the Aral was diverted in an ill-considered irrigation project to grow cotton. Gore traveled to the vanishing Amazon rain forest and to the globe's other environmental Stations of the Cross. He knows too much, however, to indulge in mere sentimentalism about Earth-Motherhood, or to join a doctrinaire rush to simplification...
...American Northeast, the Asian gypsy moth has decimated millions of acres in Siberia and China. Among the reasons: the Asian moths can cover 20 miles before laying their eggs. (Females of the European variety do not fly.) If the Asian gypsy moth becomes entrenched in the Pacific Northwest, the Forest Service estimates that the toll on the timber industry could run upwards of $35 billion over the next 40 years. By contrast, Washington's spray program -- which is scheduled to run about six weeks and cover 116,500 acres -- will cost $8.9 million. British Columbia has already started spraying...
...manages to avoid the patent lack of profundity inherent in the work of Keneally (who also wrote novels such as Cut Rate Kingdom and Gossip from the Forest), creating a multi-layered play which deals with issues that are very much important today. Within the confines of the time frame, Wertenbaker discusses the criminal character (is it habit or "innate tendency"?); the importance of art (is it "an expression of civilization" or a waste of time?); and patriotism (should these new immigrants try to "remember England" or transfer their allegiance to the "iniquitous shore" of Australia...
...plan by the ruling party and the late Robert Maxwell to build a 62-story office building on the site of Nairobi's Uhuru Park frightened away other foreign investors and scuttled the project. She also led the outcry against destruction of 20 hectares (50 acres) of forest on Nairobi's outskirts so that roses could be grown for export. Maathai countered official claims that the site contained no indigenous trees with a photograph of herself in the cleared forest, clinging to the stump of a recently felled giant hardwood...
Overgrazing by cattle has destroyed grasslands. The "cowburnt" ranges of the American West testify to the damage wrought by decades of uncontrolled grazing, which transformed once verdant land into desert. Of more than 50 million acres of U.S. Forest Service land that is open to grazing, half remains in poor condition. Lands under control of the Bureau of Land Management are in equally bad shape. Driving the cattle off, however, as some radical environmentalists would like, is not necessarily the solution. Properly managed grazing, range ecologists agree, serves to enrich rather than impoverish grasslands. In exchange for forage, hoofed beasts...