Jottings from the Granite Studio

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My fellow mammals, last one to leave please dim the lights and lock the door: Economics, the environment, and the Yangzi River dolphin

December 27th, 2006 · No Comments

I wrote about this two weeks ago, but I just read a moving piece in the New York Times (via CDT) by Robert Pittman, one of the scientists on the six-week expedition that combed the Yangzi for signs of the Chinese River Dolphin (baiji).
Locally, the Yangtze River is in serious trouble; the canary in the [...]

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