Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
impact of ocean waves. Here a resort owner, receiving complaints about mosquitoes, obtained government permission to dredge the ...
Fuller points out a barrier reef where the waves are breaking, which continues for about 5 miles up the coast. In one of the rec ...
is already rising, more than what other people are saying. I hear talk about a centimeter every certain number of years, but it ...
size of its sister island, Barbuda has a mere fourteen hundred inhabi- tants, most of whom live in the town of Codrington. The t ...
“Fortunately, I built it with the intention it would withstand a hurri- cane,” he says. He points to the concrete blocks that el ...
planet. “We have some unique vegetation growing on this point here,” Mussington continues, “and we’re already losing it to the C ...
“When you sit here totally surrounded and dominated by the sea,” Mussington says, “and that is your life and your livelihood, gl ...
its advertised 146 columns and a wine list to please royalty. The man- ager is out, so I content myself chatting with the young ...
seven identified cases. Temperature rise will likely bring more Aedes aegyptimosquitoes as carriers. A new study published in th ...
Perhaps no one has summarized the situation better than Ambassador Hurst. Speaking to the World Water Forum, he said: “The most ...
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The Indian coastal city of Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is home to India’s vibrant film industry (“Bollywood”) and probably boasts m ...
power plants in a symphony of air pollutants. Breathing Mumbai’s inversion-trapped air, they say, is the equivalent of smoking t ...
building needs to be cleaned. The main culprit, however, is clearly air- borne sulfur, produced by some 150 iron foundries, auto ...
same year, then U.S. President Bill Clinton visited Agra to sign an envi- ronmental agreement providing $45 million for energy-e ...
importing truckloads of water from the plains. The hill region of Cherrapunji, which has been heavily deforested, received 363 i ...
ized by the Butterflies—a kids’ union that offers schooling and a credit union—paraded with papier-mâché puppets that depicted t ...
remote and previously pristine atolls in the central Indian Ocean, will further aggravate the fishing problem. Global warming ha ...
We are not talking about a hypothetical effect here. The Asian cloud has been integrated into the daily life of a region that is ...
The Asian cloud has spurred a run on the sales of air conditioners and air purifiers in Malaysia, and led to a new cocktail know ...
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