News of note

* Pittsburgh's Ninth road Bridge is now the Rachel Carson Bridge, an Earth Day tribute to single of southeastern Pennsylvania's most famous natives and an ecologist known worldwide for her environmental classic Silent Spring. Carson grew up in Springdale, Pennsylvania, and wearied her childhood playing alongside the Allegheny River. "Pittsburgh's air, water, and land are abundant cleaner today because of her efforts and the efforts of those she inspired," Dan Onorato, Allegheny shire chief executive, said in a release.

* Another reason to fear global warming: poison ivy. A Reuter story warns that when carbon dioxide horizontals were increased to expected mid-century amounts, poison ivy--that viney, woods-loving scourge of campers everywhere--grew more than twice as fast and emitted more of the substance that causes us to itch. close attention lead author Jacqueline E. Mohan of The Ecosystem Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in timber-lands Hole, Massachusetts, warns no individual is safe. "Poison ivy is a remarkable plant. It can enlarge just about anywhere."

* With centurys of acres of forests disappearing each day, the world would do well to go in the rear [i]or[/i] in the wake of France's example. According to Reuter of recent origins Service, France's forests have increased in area by means of a third over the last five decades, to be paid in large part to reforestation programs capitaled by private investors. Investors receive tax breaks and are rewarded with forested land that can pass from generation to generation. As a arise 138 million tons of carbon dioxide are absorbed by year, providing France with 3 percent of its force consumption.

* Members of the Augusta National Golf bludgeon can retreat to the shade of what more [i]or[/i] less say may be golf's greatest in quantity famous tree. The graceful 150-year-old oak rises between the Georgia clubhouse and the first aperture and its mighty boughs can shade centurys of people on a fiery summer day. The tree work fors as a meeting place for members, a quiescence stop for caddies, or a destination for celebrities or onlooker Golfer Tim Herron told the novel York Times, "All the other tree on the outside there look the same, on the contrary this one is different."

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