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Where the Cattle Herds Roam, Ideally in Harmony With Their Neighbors
By JIM ROBBINS, The New York Times, July 11, 2006
MALTA, Mont. — Dale Veseth slowly drives a pickup over dirt tracks studded with small boulders, across a prairie that the word expansive does not begin to describe. The blanket of spring-green grass stretches 40 or 50 miles in every direction, and there is not a tree in sight.
Birds are abundant, though. “That’s a long-billed curlew,” Mr. Veseth said, pointing to a large brown bird running along the ground with a long curled beak, “and look, a Western kingbird.”
Mr. Veseth raises cattle. But in a sense, he and his neighbors also raise curlews, sage grouse, prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets and other species. They are part of a program run by the Nature Conservancy to create what are called grass banks, which give ranchers rights to graze land beyond their own, in return for commitments to conserve species like the ferrets and curlews on land they already own.
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Racing to Know the Rarest of Rhinos, Before It’s Too Late
By MARK DERR, The New York Times, July 11, 2006
A two-ton rhinoceros measuring 5 feet tall and 10 feet long, with a fondness for browsing on low-lying shrubbery, hardly seems like a difficult animal to find. Unless there are fewer than 60 left on the planet.
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Findings: As the World Wobbles
By ANDREW C. REVKIN, The New York Times, July 11, 2006
Late last November, as a big low-pressure system built over Europe and Asia and high pressure settled in over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the shifts in the atmosphere caused the earth to jiggle ever so slightly, like a hiker adjusting to a shifting load in a backpack.
As a result, the North Pole and its southern counterpart moved about four inches by one measure. (There are several ways to define the poles.)
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Really? The Claim: Your Diet Can Bring on an Acne Outbreak
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR, The New York Times, July 11, 2006
THE FACTS Despite what parents everywhere have long insisted, most people know by now that chocolate and greasy foods will not cause acne. But can other foods?
According to dermatologists, what largely determines whether a person develops acne are genetics and hormonal fluctuations, hence the tendency for it to occur during puberty, pregnancy and menopause.
But recent studies have pointed to one or two exceptions, most notably dairy products. One of the largest studies to demonstrate this was published last year in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology by a team at Harvard.
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Paper: Climate Change Threatens Wineries
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The New York Times, July 10, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Climate warming could spell disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar U.S. wine industry. Areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 percent -- and possibly as much as 81 percent -- by the end of this century, according to a study Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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By JIM ROBBINS, The New York Times, July 11, 2006
MALTA, Mont. — Dale Veseth slowly drives a pickup over dirt tracks studded with small boulders, across a prairie that the word expansive does not begin to describe. The blanket of spring-green grass stretches 40 or 50 miles in every direction, and there is not a tree in sight.
Birds are abundant, though. “That’s a long-billed curlew,” Mr. Veseth said, pointing to a large brown bird running along the ground with a long curled beak, “and look, a Western kingbird.”
Mr. Veseth raises cattle. But in a sense, he and his neighbors also raise curlews, sage grouse, prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets and other species. They are part of a program run by the Nature Conservancy to create what are called grass banks, which give ranchers rights to graze land beyond their own, in return for commitments to conserve species like the ferrets and curlews on land they already own.
( Read More )
Racing to Know the Rarest of Rhinos, Before It’s Too Late
By MARK DERR, The New York Times, July 11, 2006
A two-ton rhinoceros measuring 5 feet tall and 10 feet long, with a fondness for browsing on low-lying shrubbery, hardly seems like a difficult animal to find. Unless there are fewer than 60 left on the planet.
( Read More )
Findings: As the World Wobbles
By ANDREW C. REVKIN, The New York Times, July 11, 2006
Late last November, as a big low-pressure system built over Europe and Asia and high pressure settled in over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the shifts in the atmosphere caused the earth to jiggle ever so slightly, like a hiker adjusting to a shifting load in a backpack.
As a result, the North Pole and its southern counterpart moved about four inches by one measure. (There are several ways to define the poles.)
( Read More )
Really? The Claim: Your Diet Can Bring on an Acne Outbreak
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR, The New York Times, July 11, 2006
THE FACTS Despite what parents everywhere have long insisted, most people know by now that chocolate and greasy foods will not cause acne. But can other foods?
According to dermatologists, what largely determines whether a person develops acne are genetics and hormonal fluctuations, hence the tendency for it to occur during puberty, pregnancy and menopause.
But recent studies have pointed to one or two exceptions, most notably dairy products. One of the largest studies to demonstrate this was published last year in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology by a team at Harvard.
( Read More )
Paper: Climate Change Threatens Wineries
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The New York Times, July 10, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Climate warming could spell disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar U.S. wine industry. Areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 percent -- and possibly as much as 81 percent -- by the end of this century, according to a study Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
( Read More )
