Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
Some of the side effects of the Asian cloud will aggravate existing problems, like the looming Third World water crisis. Aerosol ...
you redistribute solar energy within the atmospheric column, it has a considerable impact on the properties of clouds,” Prospero ...
recent. New research reveals just how dramatic and far-reaching that movement can be. These are not global warming effects, but ...
Not all the effects of high-flying dust are bad. It is not “pollution” in any real sense, and it is an ancient natural phenomeno ...
Baalu, claimed that India produces particulate emissions as a “neces- sity,” because its people are poor and must therefore burn ...
PART TWO Ecosystems in Trouble It is an almost foregone conclusion if we do noth- ing. As a result of the rapidly rising global ...
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We squint through the fog, trying to make out the shape we know we should be able to see by now. The charts say it is there, and ...
Welcome to Little Diomede Island, a barren island outpost of the Last Frontier, a few miles off the coast of Alaska in the cold ...
to places where the boulders have become dislodged, carving paths through the shallow soil. “Last night,” he says, “I had a drea ...
because they’re too wet, now [in] the areas where lakes used to be, all the plants are dried.” To Melanie Duchin, Alaska represe ...
DYINGFORESTS The Seward Highway is the main thoroughfare south from Anchorage. It runs down the Kenai Peninsula to the small, at ...
buds through spring, the larvae hatch as caterpillars in the summer and feast on the trees themselves. All of this is, on one le ...
Then we cruise west, far north of Alaska, and all the way to Wrangel Island, off the Arctic coast of Russia. As the wind whips o ...
temperatures causing earlier spring snowmelt, allowing for a greater number of days in which the ground was snow-free and provid ...
increase evaporative cooling) causing dehydration and heat stroke.” They conclude that “significant global climate change may co ...
blanketed the ground where the Peary caribou sought to forage, cutting them off from their food source and causing them to die o ...
breeding grounds in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta; seabirds such as common murres, thick-billed murres, and red-legged and black-leg ...
impacts makes it difficult in many instances to determine the precise impacts of climate change from other human activities, or ...
declines in some salmon stocks, an increase in human health prob- lems as new diseases move north, and increased forest fires. A ...
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