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...right. In the struggle against history's most profound environmental challenges, America must lead. For the sake of our children, and our planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Global Challenge For The New Century | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...Gulf, like all the other seas, had been rising since the last Ice Age, but the Mississippi River dumped 18 billion truckloads of sediment at the Gulf's door in the time it took the seas to rise a foot. It was (and still is) one of the planet's most dynamic contests between land and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unleash the Rivers | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

After decades of rancorous debate, only a handful of the most doctrinaire die-hards still dispute the idea that human activity is heating up the planet. all the signs seem to point that way: storms have become more intense and weather patterns more erratic; the past decade has been by far the hottest on record; and the rise in temperature has been greatest in polar regions and around cities. These facts dovetail ominously well with the theory that carbon dioxide (CO 2), released by burning coal, oil and gasoline for heat, electricity and transportation, is trapping excess energy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Prevent A Meltdown | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named. The products of billions of years of evolution, organisms occupy virtually every square centimeter of the planet's surfaces and fill nearly every imaginable niche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Before Our Eyes | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...have recently been discovered in the remote Annamite Mountains along the Vietnam-Laos border. One of them, the saola or spindlehorn, is a large cowlike animal distinct enough to be classified in a genus of its own. Earth, as far as life is concerned, is still a little-known planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Before Our Eyes | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

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