Natural Phenomenon: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com - Annotated

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This fall, after eight years and almost half a billion dollars, world-famous architect Renzo Piano will complete the greenest museum ever built—the new California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park—housing its aquarium, planetarium, and natural-history museum under a two-and-a-half-acre “living roof.”

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Private land in national parks at risk for development - Los Angeles Times  Annotated

Millions of acres could face commercial development because funds have not been allocated to purchase them, reports say.

By Tami Abdollah, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 9, 2008

Millions of privately owned acres in National Park Service boundaries could be developed into luxury homes […]

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A Newfangled Way to Count the Trees in the Park - New York Times Annotated
By LILY KOPPEL
Published: April 6, 2008
Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
Mr. George used a clinometer to measure the height of a tree. He also used a G.P.S. device to locate trees.
Mr. George was collecting information for a comprehensive inventory of […]

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Three-Day Grand Canyon Flood Aims to Restore Ecosystem Annotated
Amanda Lee Myers in Page, Arizona
Associated Press
March 6, 2008

More than 300,000 gallons (more than a million liters) of water per second were released from Lake Powell above the dam near the Arizona-Utah border.
That’s enough water to fill the Empire State Building in 20 minutes, […]

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Winter’s Cheerleader, Yelling for Spring - New York Times Annotated
 
 
 
In the Garden
 

 
I first encountered Hamamelis mollis, the Chinese species, years ago, at Clark Botanic Garden, in Albertson, N.Y. It was a sunny January day, and this sprawling beauty — 5 feet tall and 20 feet across — lounged like a big blonde sunning […]

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