Ecological Duel in Desert Lasts Nearly Two Decades
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By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press  A farming couple is still battling to prevent placement of a landfill near a national park.   JOSHUA TREE, Calif.
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CAIRO -- When it comes to dust and din, perhaps no city on the planet can match Cairo, a desert-bound megalopolis clinging to the Nile whose 17 million people get by with only a few square feet of green space each.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. May 26--GUNNISON -- It all seemed so simple 85 years ago: The proportions were cut and dried. Turns out, they're all wet.
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TICHIT, Mauritania  - Caught between an encroaching sea of sand and a towering rocky plateau, Tichit has been a staging post for more than nine centuries for camel caravans snaking across the Sahara.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 24--SANDPOINT, Idaho -- The war on predators is being waged on a distinctly different front here.
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That appears to be the conclusion of research in this week&#39;s issue of Science that assesses the effects of 17-year periodical cicadas on forest ecology.
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Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land.
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By Sean Boone, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Jun. 2--It has been nearly two years since the environmental debate surrounding Eastern Lake began, and problems continue to exist.
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Saguaro National Park managers are trying to eliminate exotic plants that are threatening to crowd out native vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.
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BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) --Brain diseases have been on a steady increase in the past two decades and researchers believe they have found a link between these diseases and the environment.
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By TONY DAVIS, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  The Northwest Side's cacti and desert trees stand so dense that sometimes it's impossible to squeeze through them.
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For nine years, the question has echoed across the high desert of southeastern Utah, hard against the corner where four states meet.
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ROCKTAIL BAY, South Africa  - The signs of the  scuffle were fresh but it is a struggle that has gone on for  tens of millions of years.
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BANGALORE, India -- For three generations, two families have fought over an acre of farmland in an arid stretch of southern India, each waving documents to support its claim.
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PARIS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Environmental and scientific experts agree that  degradation of biological diversity has reached historical  dimensions, but a North-South divide is emerging over action to  counter this crisis.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Mar. 11--BLYTHE, Calif. -- The setting sun cast long shadows over sawtooth hills just across the Colorado River as a dry desert breeze whispered through the palm trees at a motel which served as an oasis.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.