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The IWC's hunting ban has done nothing to eliminate other human activities that also threaten the animals. Commercial fisheries deplete the whales' feeding grounds and disrupt their breeding areas and nurseries. Scientists suspect that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales...
Even if the rain and flooding stop completely now, it may take a month in some areas for all that water to flow back into the rivers, through the levees it came around or over. (Yes, through. The water might go back through holes eroded in the levees or through...
Even before the rains stopped and the rivers crested, a debate was breaking out about how to handle the next flood. "There are two extremes," observed Brigadier General Stanley Genega, director of civil works for the Corps of Engineers. "There are the folks who say we ought to remove everything...
The problem, ironically, is that the enormous system of levees built up over more than 200 years may be working too well. As the flood recedes and cities like Davenport begin the dismal task of cleaning up, sharp questions are being raised about the wisdom of the nation's approach...
It was another week of hauling sandbags, scrounging for bottled water and fleeing for higher ground in nine Midwestern states as the Mississippi River and its tributaries continued to flood. In Iowa, days of rain sent the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers flowing over their banks, inundating farmland and knocking...