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.../170 Archb. Williams/Milton, Ma. Andy Janfaza F Sr. 5-10/190 Noble&Green ough/Natick, Ma. Scott McCormick D So. 6-1/185 St. Paul's/Lake Forest, II. John Murphy C So. 5-11/175 St. Michael's/Toronto, Ont. Jerry Pawloski D Sr. 5-11/185 Northville /Northville, Mi. Brian Popiel D So. 5-9/165 F.W. Collegiate/Thunder Bay, Ont. Ed Presz F Jr. 6-0/175 Minnechaug Reg./Wilbraham, Ma. Don Sweeney D Sr. 5-10/185 St. Paul's/St. Stephen, N.B. Craig Taucher F Jr. 5-8/150 U. Detroit/Troy, Mi. Michael Vukonich F Fr. 6-1/185 Denfeld/Dul...
Actually, the biosphere becomes a problem only when humans get involved. In Brazil the Amazon rain forest, which once covered 3 million sq. mi., has been slashed by an estimated 10% to 15% as the region has been developed for mining and agriculture; an additional 20% has been seriously disturbed. When the downed trees are burned or rot, CO2 and other greenhouse gases are released. The same kind of deforestation in Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines, say experts, may already be helping to make the world warmer...
Last week, beneath the majestic 13,060-ft. mountain, Nevada Governor Richard Bryan and former Senator Paul Laxalt, along with other dignitaries, dedicated the surrounding 120 sq. mi. of wilderness as Great Basin National Park, the country's 49th. Named by Explorer John C. Fremont, the area known as the Great Basin stretches across northern Nevada, touching California, Oregon, Utah and Idaho. Once an inland sea, it was formed 20 million years ago by geologic plates thrusting sediment layers upward into mountain ranges. The relatively small national park contains nearly all the Great Basin's ecosystems, from desert to arctic...
Parts of Chambers County, Texas, have lost 9 ft. of coast to Galveston Bay in the past nine months. Louisiana has shrunk by 300 sq. mi. since 1970; entire parishes may disappear in the next 50 years. At Boca Grande Pass, an inlet on the Gulf Coast of Florida, some 200 million cu. yds. of sand have been carried seaward by the tidal currents. In North Carolina, where erosion this year alone has cut into beachfront property up to 60 ft. in places, the venerable Cape Hatteras lighthouse is in peril of the encroaching sea. Soon it must either...
Along a broad expanse of southern Louisiana, between the Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers, a million acres of wetlands have disappeared since 1900. ^ Scientists now estimate that an additional 60 sq. mi. are vanishing every year -- a rate that could double by 1995. "It's a catastrophe that's happening to the wetlands. You're looking at the genocide of an entire ecosystem," says Oliver Houck, a Louisiana environmental lawyer. Indeed, the loss of the state's marshes affects more than just local residents: the area provides almost 30% of the nation's fish harvest and 40% of the fur catch...