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Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete ... harmed wildlife and increased the flow of pollution into Lake Okeechobee. Damage was immediate and so extensive that Congress ...

A nature reserve centre opened by Sir David Attenborough is marking its 20-year anniversary. The naturalist and broadcaster once described the Attenborough Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire as a ...

Lake Baikal measures 12,239 square miles (31,700 square kilometers), making it Earth's seventh-largest lake.It is not only the world's oldest lake but also the deepest one, at about 1 mile (1.6 ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what ...

Mono Lake, the spectacular Dead Sea of California, is a million-year-old wonder of nature, beloved for its eerie tufa towers and its delicate saline ecosystem. Its future is uncertain though.

The timber and concrete forms appear cascading towards the water, connecting the owners to the landscape and allowing them to take in nature ... lake house ticks both boxes. Ellie Stathaki is the ...

It is at once humble and memorable; a simple, timber structure embedded in idyllic, green Upstate New York nature. The project, a relatively compact structure set along the wooded shorelines of a lake ...