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...that more attention was given to these forests of the sea. Vessel groundings, coastal construction, pollution and climate change have all severely affected and continue to have a detrimental impact on sea life around the world, with more and more coral threatened with extinction. In 2006, the staghorn and elkhorn corals, prevalent along South Florida waters, were listed as threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act (Staghorn coral is present in the Breakers reef, but it is not believed to have been damaged this time around...
...Cuse arrived at Harvard from the Putney School in Vermont as a pre-med, but he soon realized his calling was elsewhere.“I had gone to this boarding school where biology consisted of being able to tell the difference between a Black Birch and a Staghorn Sumac,” he says. “And I found myself in introductory chemistry with 150 wonks from around the country who had already taken the class.”Cuse realized medicine was not for him when, his uncle—a surgeon at the time?...
...striped bass and other fish. Encroaching urbanization, flooding, and conversion of marshes to farmland have destroyed 90% of the state's wetlands, most of which were linked to the estuary. As freshwater is diverted into canals, the zone where freshwater and salt water meet has moved upstream, starving young staghorn sculpin that in turn were food for blue herons and snowy egrets. Roughly 90% of the state's commercial Chinook salmon catch depends on the estuary, but more than half the salmon swimming up the Sacramento River to lay eggs are blocked by the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. Those that...
...Rudges still did not know who set out the mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England. At last it took them to Grime's Graves in Norfolk, a dark, fir-grown hollow where Stone Age man from earliest times dug flint with staghorn picks. Norfolk country people shun the spot, and call it "the evil place." But for the Rudges, it was the payoff...
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