A decade ago, Tim Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker, which most scientists believed had been extinct for more than

On globalization and world economy.

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A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.