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...this week's cover story for our annual Environment issue, Bryan Walsh writes that there have been five great waves of extinction in the planet's history--the most recent being 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs bit the dust. Now, he suggests, we may be entering the sixth. Some 1 in 4 mammals are under threat, and conservationists estimate that the pace of extinction is up to 1,000 times as great as it was before humans walked the earth. The great difference this time is that the cause is man-made. Climate change, according to some conservationists...
...day.In an offensive slugfest that saw 29 hits and five balls clear the fence—four off of Crimson bats—Harvard had to climb out of a hole again due to a three-run Penn first inning against the starter Zailskas. An eight-run sixth, which chased Zailskas and battered freshman reliever Will Keuper, seemed to doom the Crimson before the late offensive eruption.“Our offense salvaged us today with long balls,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “We’ve got a lot of confidence and, while...
...with Columbia’s only hit coming on a Keli Leong second-inning single, and she struck out the side in the second, fourth and seventh. Harvard went down in order in the third, fourth and fifth, and although sophomore Emily Henderson drew a leadoff walk in the sixth, she couldn’t advance past second base.“I think we’re going to try to switch up the lineup and spread out our hitters who have been hitting the ball well,” Vertovez said. “We were all having...
...through three innings. Senior Hayley Bock sparked the Harvard scoring spree, leading off the fourth inning with a double and coming home on a single by junior Melissa Schellberg, who is also a Crimson sports editor. The Crimson added another run to its lead in both the fifth and sixth innings before closing the door on the Bulldogs with a spectacular five-run seventh inning.The Harvard pitching staff saw a solid performance from the mound as well. Freshman Julia Moore struck out three batters in three innings. Junior Dana Roberts relieved Moore and recorded the win, pitching a perfect fourth...
...Harvard scored four runs in the sixth inning to make it a game, and added three in the seventh, courtesy of a three-run home run from Rogers. Freshman Marcus Way pitched three innings of relief for the Crimson, allowing just a single hit—a solo homer—to keep...