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Moose were plentiful in New England until white settlers replaced their thick forest habitats with farms. But laws protecting the animals, and the gradual reforestation of the area, have spawned the comeback...
...destruction is occurring despite a concerted effort to prevent it. In the past 25 years, nearly 90% of the state's communities have imposed some form of restraint on growth, but urban and suburban subdivisions keep sprawling. The legislature passed laws in 1973 to ensure sustainable management of the forests, but timber companies have replanted new species instead of maintaining existing forests and have cut too often to permit the forest to regenerate itself. And though Los Angeles has made progress against smog, air quality has plummeted in other parts of the state...
...heavy industrial pollution and the burning down of large areas of forest land have been increasing the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for over a century, many scientific studies have shown...
Experiments in the Harvard Forest Ecosystem near Petersham, Mass. have shown that if there is too much carbon in the leaves, decomposition slows down, and nutrients are returned to the ground more slowly. Once there are less nutrients in the ground, plant growth will be stunted...
...this spirit that I visited an Israeli healer. Suffering from a persistent tickling in my right ear that had me convinced that some rain- forest bug had set up household in my head, I decided to see "bioenergist" Zeev Kolman. A kindly man, Kolman first studied my "aura," looking for perturbations, and then set to work by simply moving his hands in the air over my body. After a few seconds I began to feel a current crackling between his hands and my skin, and a pleasant tickling in the bothersome ear. At one point, I felt a whooshing sensation...