Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Meteorological Organization announced what many Americans this season have been feeling in their bones: Baby, it's hot outside. In fact, 1998 will go down as the warmest year on the planet since temperature records have been kept. Worse, 1998 will be recorded as the 20th year in a row that the surface of the earth has been warmer than its recent long-term average. Researchers worry that we may have seen nothing...
...spindly machine standing 3.5 ft. tall, the lander is set to arrive in December 1999, aiming to touch down near Mars' south pole, one of the few spots on the freeze-dried planet that is likely to contain some water. Just before reaching the Martian atmosphere, the lander will release a pair of tapered pods, each about the size of a basketball, made of brittle silica. Plunging ahead of the ship, the projectiles will free-fall to the surface and strike the ground at 400 m.p.h...
That night in camp, Mittermeier laments the general ignorance of this terrain. The marine biologist Sylvia Earle made the same point to me some months ago about life in the oceans; we yearn for Mars, a planet as good as dead, and know so little of life on Earth. To date we have identified between 1.5 million and 1.7 million species, but the best guesses put the total number of the planet's species at between 5 million and 15 million, and it could be as high as 100 million. "How can we talk about extinction rates," Mittermeier asks, "unless...
...Heroes for the Planet series began in the Oct. 5, 1998, issue with a report on people working to protect the seas and coastlines...
Once upon a time the forests were the land. Covering the planet like an elegant drape, they nourished and protected most terrestrial life. Now the fabric is in tatters--slashed by timber interests, agriculture, suburban sprawl and plain human carelessness. In this second installment of our Heroes for the Planet series, we tell the stories of those working to preserve the great swatches of green that still survive...