A Modern Use for Thoreau’s Notes on Flora - Linking Patterns to Climate Change - NYTimes.com

By CORNELIA DEAN

CONCORD, Mass. — Henry David Thoreau endorsed civil disobedience, opposed slavery and lived for two years in a hut in the woods here, an experience he described in “Walden.” Now he turns out to have another line in […]

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One in 4 Mammals Threatened With Extinction, Group Finds - NYTimes.com

By JAMES KANTER

BARCELONA, Spain — An “extinction crisis” is under way, with one in four mammals in danger of disappearing because of habitat loss, hunting and climate change, a leading global conservation body warned Monday.

“Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a […]

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Nature Conservancy Buys Large Area of Adirondack Land - NYTimes.com

By MARTIN ESPINOZA

A 14,600-acre piece of the Adirondacks long prized by environmentalists for its forests and wetlands, including a pond where Ralph Waldo Emerson led a “philosophers’ camp,” was purchased on Thursday by a preservation group for $16 million, the group said.

The property, southwest of Lake […]

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In the Garden - Foraging for Berries, the Special on Nature’s Produce Aisle - NYTimes.com

By ANNE RAVER
Published: July 3, 2008

I’VE been feasting on wild black raspberries every day as I walk down to the stream with my dog, Wolfie, at our family farm in Maryland. The wild brambles seem to grow best along the sunny […]

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The Hidden Gardens of Paris - NYTimes.com

By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: June 29, 2008

Multimedia
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The Quiet Corners of Paris
 

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Paris, France

Intimate, lightly trafficked and often quirky, the small gardens of Paris […]

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