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Another clue comes from a study of 7,000 trees, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee examined 14,000 core samples of the tree trunks. Their findings: beginning in 1960, in eight Eastern states, pitch and shortleaf pines and red spruce started...
The signs of what Germans call Waldsterben, or dying forests, are obvious. New leaves and needles, smaller than usual, turn yellow or brown and finally drop to the ground. In time, many evergreens, some of them 150 years old, simply stop bearing needles. Roots and trunks begin to warp, gnarl...
The damage was first detected around 1970, but scientists suspect that the destruction be gan two decades earlier. One clue: cross sections of tree trunks show that their growth rings, widely separated for more than a century, began narrowing in the 1950s and '60s, a sign of impaired growth...
In the meantime, however, the troops cannot just sit back and sip rum punch: even when off duty, wandering the beaches in bikini swimming trunks, they carry M16s. Last Thursday, in an almost slapstick incident, Americans came under fire. Before dawn on tiny Green Island, just off Grenada, a patrolling...
When the sale became known, a furious Judge Sand threatened to freeze $55 million worth of the company's assets in the U.S. Rich then promised to deliver the contested documents. But only three days later, U.S. Customs officers, apparently acting on a tip from a mole inside the...