Word: habitat
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...price was paid in loss of habitat for the wildlife that thrived on the river's natural ebb and flow. Environmentalists are proposing a policy shift that would use the Missouri's dams to restore the river's traditional behavior, unleashing a surge of water southward in the spring and allowing the flow to dwindle in summer, as it once did. The plan has triggered a fiery debate, roughly pitting northerners, who benefit from the river's natural attractions, against southerners, ranging from barge haulers to farmers, who benefit from the river's commercial properties. It's a debate...
...future of the species depends on you, kids." The mating season for what may be the rarest bird on earth, the po'ouli, or black-faced honeycreeper, just ended, and researchers in Hawaii were unable to mate successfully two of the three remaining birds in the species. Suffering from habitat loss and disease, the po'ouli faces extinction on the slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano. Researchers at the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project finally captured one of the two remaining females last month. At dusk the female was released into the territory of the only remaining male...
...snack on, and wham! You're hit by a stun gun, and the next thing you know, you've been stuffed into a cage. Three days later, everyone expects you to act "interesting" for expectant-looking adults and sniveling, balloon-toting kids lined up outside your faux-natural habitat at the local...
...Habitat for Humanity will take 10 students to Washington, D.C. to build houses for low-income families...
...quite caught on that Spring Break is our one-time, one-week excuse to go somewhere with close friends before the end of the school year.) Upperclassmen who have caught on can choose between a variety of Spring Break hot-spots: The socially conscious among us will perform Habitat for Humanity manual labor. The adventurous can backpack through Europe or Asia. The science-concentrating seniors may journey to Cambridge’s illustrious bio labs to complete their theses. The semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine might choose to crash...