Word: tundras
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Indeed, perhaps the greatest lesson that can be learned from the spectacle--if large chunks of the Siberian tundra can teach a lesson at all--is that publicity stunts and natural history just...
...million gallons of syrupy crude, creating a 500-mi.-long oil slick. Since BP Amoco is the largest oil producer in the region, it's not surprising that environmental activists closely monitor its oil-exploration operations there. Last year Paul Wenman spent several weeks trudging around the Alaskan tundra to see just how well the firm had implemented its stated environmental and social aims. But Wenman doesn't work for Greenpeace. He was there at the oil company's expense, as the head of accounting firm Ernst & Young's environmental-services group, conducting an audit no mere accountant could accomplish...
...problem is that most of Colorado's biggest mountains don't have well-defined trails to the top. So hikers scramble up the slopes any way they can, disrupting the natural drainage systems and trampling the fragile ecosystem--which includes tundra rarely seen in such abundance outside the Arctic. Where once there were rock jasmine and alpine forget-me-nots, there are now deep gullies, muddy lagoons and widespread erosion. "We are loving the Fourteeners to death," laments former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm, who has scaled 49 of them...
...tons of rock were hauled in by rope and bucket to plug a 4-ft.-deep gully that ran for a quarter-mile. On Grays Peak, a well-groomed trail to the summit will be fashioned to replace a spiderweb of paths that climbers have etched haphazardly in the tundra. On Bierstadt, which has been singled out for attention this summer, workers are building boardwalks and diverting stream runoff to dry up muddy quagmires that have engulfed the main route...
...Anne Morrow, who married him in 1929. They traveled all over the world as pioneer aviator-explorers, mapping air routes for the fledgling airline industry. Together they navigated by the stars and watched the great surfaces of the earth revealed beneath their wings: desert and forest and jungle and tundra, wild rivers and wide-open oceans. Land, sea and air: all of it seemed to be endless; all of it seemed to be theirs...