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...that the animal is functionally extinct," says August Pfluger, head of the Zurich-based Baiji.org Foundation, which in December co-sponsored a six-week, 2,000-mile (3,500-km) survey of the Yangtze without finding a single remaining member of the critically endangered species. The dolphin, one of only four exclusively freshwater species in the world, may have the unhappy distinction of being the first aquatic mammal to go extinct in more than half a century - and the first large mammal driven into oblivion by environmental degradation...
...necessity. Even the environmental friendliness of not driving would make up for having to carry my passport around as proof of being 21. There is comfort, though, in knowing that, if the opportunity presented itself, I could hijack the Hamptons jitney or make the six-hour, 25-mile trip to New Jersey at six p.m. on a weekday...
...Saturdays and Sundays were almost always chock-a-block full with activities ranging from sampling farmers’ markets to summer concerts in parks and from five-mile walks down the Thames to excursions into Oxford and Wimbledon...
...Weekend after weekend at school, I move between the same few haunts within the same three-mile radius (a generous estimate). I’ve made the “arduous” commute into Boston maybe four or five times a year, the rest of the time too absorbed in the same old campus events and parties and papers that litter my weekends. This summer, my renewed appetite for travel and sight-seeing emphasizes the way in which it had paled in the past few years, as I ignored the area around me: Cambridge, Boston, New England...
...Army Corps of Engineers started draining and diverting it in the mid-20th century, trashing eons of delicate natural plumbing to make way for Florida sugar farms and ranch houses. Only in 2000 did the Florida and federal governments finally seem to acknowledge that the 18,000-square-mile "River of Grass" was not a swamp but a unique and vital ecosystem. They embarked on a $10 billion, 20-year project to restore the Everglades to something like its original state...