Word: conservationism
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Ernst Mayr, who is in charge of plans for the research center and director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said that besides aiding pure research, the wildlife center could help to solve the practical problems of conservation and insect control.
Last week a New York commission proposed that something-finally-be done about the Hudson. Headed and partly financed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller's conservation-minded brother Laurance, the commission urged that New York and New Jersey (which has 21 miles of the river's west bank) join...
* A U.S. Court of Appeals recently ordered the Federal Power Commission to review its approval of the plant so as to give greater weight to the project's effect on the environment, marking the first occasion on which the FPC has been told to weigh the technical need for...
Desalinization may be the answer of the future; it is most certainly the only answer for some parts of the world. But the Northeastern States have a far more logical and beneficial challenge to meet. Industrial re-use, measures to prevent waste in present systems, the cleaning up of rivers...
STEWART UDALL, 45, made more politically embarrassing statements in his first six months as Secretary of the Interior than any other Cabinet member since Charlie Wilson. Prodded by conservation-minded Lyndon Johnson, he has since broadened his office's traditional preoccupation with Western problems into a nationwide mandate, presided...