ECOLOGY

(See also Acid Rain; Biodiversity; Climate Change; Conservation; Deserts; Extinction; Forests; Global Warming; International Expositions; Nature; Pollution)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

African dust enriches distant places: g93 5/8 28-29

Antarctica: g 4/13 3; g00 7/22 19-20

appreciation for Awake! articles on: g98 5/8 32; g97 7/8 32; g96 8/22 30

Aral Sea tragedy: g 10/15 11; g92 8/22 24-27; g91 9/8 31

arctic:

effect of industrialization: g02 3/22 29

automobile oil: g92 9/22 13

beaches: g98 7/8 29

beetles remove weeds from lakes: g04 5/8 29

benefits of bats: g89 1/22 19

bird decline: g94 11/22 28

boglands: g91 7/22 15-17

botanical conservation efforts: g89 1/8 18

Brazil ecosystems: g01 2/8 29

chart “Environmental Problems—A Sign of the Times”: w93 3/1 6

China’s “green great wall”: g 7/06 29

Christian responsibility: mrt article 25; g 12/07 10-11; w93 1/1 31

consumption by developed and developing nations: g02 10/8 28

controversy over paper: g99 6/8 26-27

coral threatened: g 3/09 29; g96 9/22 15-17, 19-20; g93 6/22 28; g91 2/22 28; g91 5/8 29

cricket plague (Brazil): g92 6/8 29

crisis: g19.1 3; w09 1/1 18; w08 8/1 3-6; g03 11/22 3-10; g97 1/8 3-4; g96 1/8 3-5; w93 3/1 5-6; g93 1/8 8-10; g93 1/22 3-11; g93 4/8 3-5; w90 10/1 5; g88 7/22 29; g87 7/22 3-9

depletion of natural resources: g05 1/8 3-9; g05 12/22 29; g03 2/22 28-29; g99 5/8 29; g99 10/8 31

effect on children: g92 12/8 5-6

effect on health: g99 6/22 15

highlighted at Flower Expo (Japan, 1990): g91 5/22 26

industrial chemicals: g87 7/22 5-6

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005): g 7/08 12

mountains: g05 3/22 3, 5-9, 11

scientists issue warnings: mrt article 55; w10 8/1 3-4; g96 5/22 28; kl 105; g95 10/8 31; g93 10/22 11; g91 1/22 31

UNEP reports: w07 5/15 3; g04 2/8 31

WHO reports: g96 3/22 24

deforestation: g23.1 9, 11; g 12/09 14; g05 1/8 5-6; g05 7/22 7; g03 11/22 4; g03 12/22 26-27; g98 4/22 28-29; g98 7/22 29; g96 1/8 6, 8; g93 1/8 8-9; g93 1/22 4-5; g91 1/22 15; g91 8/8 29; w90 7/1 3; g90 3/22 4-5; g88 4/8 12; g87 6/22 2-10; g87 7/22 6-8; g86 4/8 29; g86 6/22 19; g86 10/8 31

fires: g98 5/8 10-11; g98 10/22 28; g98 11/8 28

low-impact logging reduces: g03 6/22 6-9

malaria increase: g 9/11 29

mud stoves help to slow: g87 8/22 30

Philippines: g03 11/22 7; g96 2/8 29

rain forests: g 11/14 3; g03 6/22 3-6, 10-11; g98 5/8 3-6, 11-13; g98 12/8 28; g97 3/22 4-7, 9-13; g90 3/22 2-14

to grow cocaine: g90 1/22 29

vulnerability to fire: g94 4/22 29

desertification: g97 2/8 14-17; g87 7/8 29; g86 3/22 10-12

China: g 7/06 29; g05 1/8 6; g01 1/22 28-29

Italy: g98 5/8 28-29

Pan-African project to halt Sahara (2007- ): g 12/12 28

drift-net fishing: g92 5/22 14-16

dust storms:

effect of four-wheel-drive vehicles: g05 6/8 29

economic value of natural ecosystems: g04 6/8 31

ecotourism: g05 8/22 4-6

effect of—

ballast water from ships: g04 11/22 29

computer manufacturing: g03 10/22 29

dams: g02 1/22 31

divorce: g 10/08 30

drug production: g03 4/22 28

oil-spill cleanup (Alaska, 1989): g91 9/22 29

plastic bags: g03 9/8 29

population growth: g91 11/8 12-13

poverty: g98 6/8 6; g98 6/22 28

throwaway society: g02 8/22 3-11

tourism: g05 8/22 4-8

transported species: g04 1/8 28; g02 2/8 28

trend for offspring to move out: g03 9/8 29

efforts to improve: g96 1/8 4-5, 11

agroforestry: g00 11/22 24-27

Copenhagen Accord (Denmark, 2009): g 11/11 12-13

Earth Summit (Brazil, 1992): g96 1/8 4-5, 11; g94 7/22 29; g92 10/22 28

Expo 2005 (Japan): g 3/07 24-25

Kyoto Protocol (Japan, 1997): g 11/11 12; g03 11/22 6; g98 5/22 5

Montreal Protocol (Canada, 1987): g96 1/8 5

Everglades (Florida, U.S.): g97 1/22 14-17

experiences:

ecologist accepts truth: g 4/13 6-7

failure of human efforts: g05 1/8 10-11; g03 11/22 4-8; g96 1/8 12-14

Biosphere 2: g00 11/22 11-12

comments by conservationist: g96 7/22 18

experience of environmentalist: g04 3/22 8-9

farmlands deteriorating:

Europe: g94 12/22 28-29

fires: g02 9/22 24-27

floods:

human causes: g01 2/22 28

importance of invertebrates: g94 11/8 29

interdependency of earth and living things: g01 11/22 4

island nations: g00 5/8 28

lakes in danger: g02 12/8 28-29

Lake Victoria (East Africa): g00 7/22 28; g98 11/22 18; g93 1/8 29; g86 8/8 29

laws of ecology: g96 1/8 6-7, 10

lead (element): g92 11/22 10

lessons from Easter Island: g00 6/22 22-25

meaning of terms: g05 1/8 4; g96 1/8 6

Mediterranean Sea: g99 1/8 14-17

mountains: g05 3/22 3-11

oceans: g03 11/22 3; w90 7/1 3-4

dead zone in Gulf of Mexico: g98 7/22 28

effect of death of: g89 9/22 31

effect of pollution: g89 7/22 6-7; g86 11/8 31

effect of trawling: g99 9/22 28

overfishing: g 11/08 20-23; g04 2/22 28; g95 1/8 29; g95 6/22 28

seabed dragging: g98 4/8 29

oil spills:

Alaska (1989): g94 1/22 31; g91 3/8 28; g91 9/22 29

France (1999): g00 6/22 18-19

Gulf of Mexico (2010): g 9/15 16; g 1/13 3; w11 5/1 8

Mediterranean Sea: g99 1/8 14-15

natural cleanup: g 9/15 16; g 1/13 3; g99 4/22 29; g96 12/22 29

Spain (1992): g93 8/22 31

Spain (2002): g03 8/22 20-21

olive pits used as fuel: g 10/06 30

Pantanal region (Brazil): g99 9/8 19

pressure on biosphere: g88 4/8 11-12

recuperative ability: w98 6/15 4-5

reports:

State of the World by year (Worldwatch Institute): w93 3/1 5-6; g93 11/8 28; w91 7/15 3; w90 10/1 5; g90 2/8 31; g87 7/8 29-30; g87 7/22 3-4

UN World Commission on Environment and Development (1987): g87 8/22 30

rivers: g00 9/8 29

Danube River: g99 10/22 19

St. Lawrence River (Canada): g94 4/8 22

Russia: g94 7/22 28-29

scientist compares animal deaths to canaries in mines: g91 1/22 31

soil:

hoofprints create grasslands: g86 12/22 30

loss of: g05 1/8 6; g92 10/8 28; g90 3/22 11; g86 9/22 8-11; g86 12/22 30

overirrigation: w90 7/1 4

reclamation of Curonian Spit (Lithuania): g04 11/22 16-18

salinization: g05 1/8 7, 9; g04 8/22 25-27

strip mining (Nauru): g96 7/22 28

study of electric automobiles: g97 9/22 28

terrorism in name of: g01 5/22 7

trees suffering: g93 8/8 28

university studies: g91 1/8 28

UN role: g92 10/22 28

waste disposal: g96 1/8 7, 10

biodegradability of refuse: g01 8/22 29; g90 9/22 29

water:

drinking water: mrt article 79; g96 6/22 29; g94 7/22 28; g92 7/22 24; g91 1/22 28-29; w90 7/1 4

Great Artesian Basin (Australia): g02 2/8 25-27

mountain ecosystems endangered: g02 10/22 29

poison from mercury thermometers: g02 10/8 28-29

wetlands: g94 1/22 13-17; g90 8/22 29

Witness contributions:

green initiatives in construction: hdu article 33

worsening: w90 10/1 5

Quotations

if we do not act now, the crisis for the Earth and its inhabitants will become intolerably acute: g96 3/22 24