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...WILDLIFE 92% Estimated drop in king-salmon yields from California's Sacramento River from 2002 to 2008 160 Years since the U.S. government last banned West Coast salmon-fishing. This year's ban came after authorities declared the region's king-salmon fisheries a federal failure...
...scene of devastation has reached apocalyptic levels. Aerial photos of the Irrawaddy delta, Burma's rice bowl, show much of the region still inundated by a vast surge of muddy water. The few residents who have been able to communicate with the outside world describe rice fields littered with bodies and villages where not a single bamboo shack was left standing. Even in the commercial capital Rangoon, where structures are more sturdily constructed, roofs were sheared off buildings and nearly all the city's main streets were uprooted of their columns of stately trees. "We have a major humanitarian catastrophe...
...years, only 10 animals with tumors have been found in a forestry area known as West Pencil Pine, a favorite devil haunt. That suggests that the disease's spread is slowing. Could local devils be resisting it? Belov and Woods are both itching to compare MHC types in the region, and a major effort to trap West Pencil Pine devils will soon begin. "The next month could be a watershed," says Woods. "We're hoping for a lot of positive data...
...Years since the U.S. government last banned West Coast salmon-fishing. This year's ban came after authorities declared the region's king-salmon fisheries a federal failure...
Following the advice of charities set up after the Oklahoma City bombings, organizers at the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region created the fund to do more than just write checks. Each of its 1,051 clients was assigned an experienced social worker who helped draft a set of personalized goals. For Sergeant First Class Christopher Braman, an Army Ranger who was at the Pentagon on 9/11 and was severely injured while helping recover bodies at the site, the case managers "became like family." The fund assisted Braman's wife in getting scholarships for nursing school and found college...