Word: conservationism
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In one of nature's most impressive pageants, monarch butterflies fly from as far away as Canada to spend the winter in tiny patches of fir forest nestled in the mountains of central Mexico.* Though the butterfly migration has been going on since at least the end of the Pleistocene...
Since local residents depend on the forest for a livelihood, Monarca and the government are attempting to find ways to diversify the area's economy. They have devised an ambitious program to improve the yield of already existing farmland, establish orchards, build more greenhouses (chrysanthemums are already grown in the...
As much at ease in a tailored business suit as in a traditional flowing Bedouin thobe, or lengthy shirt, Yamani was the chief architect of the 1973-74 OPEC oil embargo. That historic action, which drastically cut back OPEC exports to several Western nations, including the U.S., more than quadrupled...
Billed as a reluctant candidate, Kennedy avoided political life until January of this year, and stayed out of the limelight until he founded the non-profit Citizens Energy Corporation six years ago. The corporation aids the Massachusetts Fuel Assistance program and has worked on various experiments in alternative energies and...
Alarmed by the rate of tropical deforestation, scientists are no longer shy about criticizing commercial and public development schemes that eat away vast tracts of rain forest. "In the past, many biologists thought it was almost unscientific to get involved in conservation politics," says Lovejoy. "But no more. The rate...