Word: soils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...break. In terms that recalled the red-baiting tactics of the McCarthy era, Bush told CNN talk-show host Larry King that Clinton should "level with the American people on the draft, on whether he went to Moscow, how many demonstrations he led against his country from a foreign soil...
This fall, falling leaves and soil runoff havestained the water supply of Cambridge brown andyellow. However, neither the waste nor thediscoloration, which occurs every fall, signal anyhealth dangers, said Ed Dowling, a departmentchemist...
Dowling said the color, caused by dissolvediron and manganese from leaves and soil, isdifficult to filter...
...worst occurs, countless millions will become environmental refugees, swamping the nations that tried to conserve their soil, water and forests. The great-grandchildren of today's young people would have to share the planet with only a ragged cohort of adaptable species dominated by rats, cockroaches, weeds, microbes. The world in which they survived would consist largely of deserts, patches of tropical forests, eroded mountains, dead coral reefs and barren oceans, all buffeted by extremes of weather...
...With most of the world's good land already under plow, a population of 11 billion human beings would probably have to make do with less than half the arable land per capita that exists today. That would set the stage for disaster, as farmers stripped nutrients from the soil, exacerbated erosion and gobbled up water and wild lands...