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...ecosystem's intricate, interdependent webs of life are hard to restore once they have become frayed. The U.S. is learning this lesson in its multibillion-dollar effort to halt the decline of the Everglades, the "river of grass" that once covered 4,500 sq. mi. (11,700 sq km) in Florida. Having spent much of this century channeling, damming and diverting Everglades water for urban and agricultural use, state and federal politicians have watched with growing alarm as these alterations threw the ecosystem into a tailspin. Wading-bird populations have plummeted; sport and commercial fish catches have fallen...
...just three or four decades, we had managed to reverse one of nature's most remarkable geomorphological phenomena. By the 1980s coastal Louisiana, instead of expanding in size, was disappearing under the Gulf at a rate of nearly 40 sq. mi. (100 sq km) a year. (The rate of land loss has declined somewhat since then; no one seems sure...
...personal hero is Captain Ron Gatto of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Watershed Police. Since 1905 New York City has employed an environmental police force to protect the 1,969 sq. mi. (5,100 sq km) of watersheds that feed the city's upstate drinking-water reservoirs. DEP, which came into being in 1978, has the authority to enforce laws against polluting the watersheds. But records show that prior to 1989, DEP's police never arrested a single polluter. A succession of New York City governments apparently didn't want to antagonize upstate landowners, who wielded great...
Just a stick's throw away from Los Angeles International Airport, the KENNEL CLUB/LAX rates five stars in any dog's guidebook. Besides traditional dog runs for $18 to $25 a day, the air-conditioned club has 148-sq.-ft. private rooms, each decorated in a different theme and equipped with a VCR player showing dog videos. (Daily cost: $43.) To accommodate airport arrivals and departures, the club is open 24 hours every...
...form was a huge letdown. All the Census Bureau cared about was gender and race, like some humanities grad student. Plus, our form kept insulting us by insinuating that we lived in a mobile home. It never gave us a chance to refute that and tell about our 450-sq.-ft. studio apartment...