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...Bogolay and the surrounding area, but I saw no dead bodies on the road to the city or in Bogalay itself. I saw no funerals. While the place is in tatters, the death toll may be greater in more exposed villages closer to the sea. Bogalay is slightly inland; the majority of deaths occurred in more flimsy coastal villages fully exposed to the elements and unprotected from a 12-foot-high surge of water...
...sisters in a quieter part of town, we soon grew bored with the limited options for non-partiers. So we rented a car and drove across the bridge spanning Lake Pontchartrain, passing the recently rebuilt levees on our way to the Lower Ninth Ward. Debris on the shore stretched inland for hundreds of yards before giving way to rows of houses—if they could still be called that. Roofs snapped in two rested precariously above splintered and warped planks of wood. Tacked-up plastic sheets covered some of the holes where windows and doors had once been; others...
Mulholland backs that conclusion. Our inland waterways can barely handle the nitrogen fertilizer we're already using in order to grow record yields of corn and other crops. Truly ramping up biofuel production - unless it can be done in a way that uses much less fertilizer, perhaps with experimental techniques that harness plant waste matter instead of food crops - might overwhelm that system. "We have to be very careful about biofuels in terms of what kind of crops we grow and where we grow them," says Mulholland. "The great expansion of corn could be a real problem." It would...
...good example. For decades, plague was restricted to the highlands, according to a 2004 paper by researchers in Madagascar, Senegal and France. But it showed up on the coast in 1991, when the Asian shrew somehow picked up infected fleas. The plague's earlier comeback in the inland capital, Antananarivo, arose as city sprawl and shoddy housing put residents in closer contact with black rats. In 1998, inland villages reported cases, too, perhaps caused by rats displaced through deforestation...
...start of any Karoo tour is the south coast. Hire a good car, check the spare tire (roads are good but service stations can be hours apart), and head inland. Once you breach the mountains that line the coastline - the Outeniqua, the Baviaanskloofbeit or the Swartrugreng - you're in the Karoo. Roads run straight to the horizon, the sky is cloudless and the mountains are a sequence of blues and ambers...