Murray Springs (AZ), 63–64
museums and museum vaults
durability of, 37
musk oxen, 220
Mzima Springs (Kenya), 77
Nairobi National Park, 78–82
National Museums of Kenya, 68
National Wildlife Refuges
contaminated sites as, 207, 267
Nature Conservancy, The, 140–41, 258
Navajo people, 120
New England
agriculture in, 146–47
cultivation, effects of, 146–47, 149–50
Erie Canal and, 147
forests, 148–50
forests, increase of, 147
Native Americans and, 147–48
stonewalls, 146
New York Botanical Garden
Hemlock Forest, 28–30, 32
New York City
animal life, 36–37
biodiversity, 27–28, 32
bridges, 33–36
flooding of, 41–42
garbage landfills, 37–38
Hemlock Forest, 28–30
High Line (elevated railroad bed), 27
Lenni Lenape people, 23, 32, 33
Mannahatta Project, 22–24, 30, 32–33
MTA subway system, 105
natural state, 28–30, 33
next Ice Age and, 37–38, 39
original geography, 22–23
pavement, 26–27
plant and tree resurgence, 27, 27–28
skyscrapers, collapse of, 28
Statue of Liberty, 37, 246–47
statue of Waladyslaw Jagiello, 21–22, 247
subway system, 24–26
underground water, 22–23
wiring and plumbing, remains of, 38
without humans, 25–26, 26–27, 27–28, 35–36, 36–38, 41–42
North America; South America
Newhouse, Fred, 137–38, 141–42
newspapers
ecological damage from, 119–20
Nicosia (Cyprus), 91
Nogales (Sonora, Mexico), 65
North America
biological interchange, 180–81
Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory (Arizona), 55
drought, 168
extinctions, 56–58, 62–63, 63–64
fossils, 53–55, 62–63
placental mammals, 180
reintroduction of elephants, 81
reintroduction of horses, 71
reintroduction of top predators, 271
New England; New York City; South America
North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (horse latitudes), 121, 122, 123–24
Novozybkov region (Russia) fallout from Chernobyl, 216, 218
nuclear facilities
accidents at, 208
contamination from, 215–16, 216
durability of, 210, 212
meltdowns, 212–13, 213–14, 214–16
reactors, 36, 209–11, 212, 212–13, 213, 213–14, 214–16
waste, storage of, 210, 212
nuclear fission
atomic bombs, effects of, 201–2
natural decay, 202–3
plutonium; radiation; uranium nuclear weapons
Hanford Nuclear Reservation (WA) Hiroshima/Nagasaki, 201–2, 206–7
Johnston Atoll, 266–67
Rocky Flats (CO), 207–8, 208–9
and surplus U-238, 205–6
ocean-conveyor cooling, 41, 171, 166–67
oceans
coral reefs, 255–58, 258–59, 259–61, 261–62, 262–63, 263–64, 264–65
fertilizers and, 156
Great Britain’s shoreline, rubbish along, 113–14
horse latitudes (North Pacific Subtropical Gyre), 121, 122, 123–24
plastic particles pollution of, 113–14, 114–16, 116–18, 118–19, 119–20, 120–23, 123–24, 124–25, 125–26, 126–28
shark population, 255–57, 263, 265
Olduvai Gorge, 43–44, 69
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 22, 30
Olorgesailie depression (Kenya), 68–71
Olsen, David, 246
Ottoman Empire.
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